Robert Garcia Launches New Phase in Roza Testimony Jeffrey Epstein Probe
House Democrats used a field hearing in West Palm Beach, Florida, to say the roza testimony jeffrey epstein case is entering a new phase. Robert Garcia, the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, said Democrats are launching a new phase of the Epstein investigation
at the Tuesday session with survivors, families and advocates.
The hearing took place near President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort and near Jeffrey Epstein's former home. Democrats also released a report saying the nonprosecution agreement negotiated by Alex Acosta let Epstein continue and expand his trafficking operation after he pleaded guilty to a single state count of solicitation of prostitution and served 13 months in jail.
West Palm Beach Field Hearing
The session in West Palm Beach was not an official hearing, but it gave Democrats a public stage to press their case around Epstein-related files and survivor accounts. Garcia said the report released alongside the hearing is the first of many Democrats intend to release over the coming months, linking the new phase to Oversight material and witness cooperation.
That push lands while the Justice Department has released millions of pages of Epstein-related files, heavily redacting those pages, and withheld millions of other pages while citing ongoing investigations and attorney-client privilege among other reasons. Garcia described the government's handling of the files as a continued cover-up
and said it continues to defy the law
.
Roza Testifies For First Time
A survivor identified only as Roza testified for the first time. Roza said she was an 18-year-old model from Uzbekistan when she moved to New York in 2008, and she said she quickly fell into debt to her modeling agency, which was run by Epstein associate Jean-Luc Brunel.
Roza's account put a personal face on a file-driven fight that has moved from court records to congressional politics. Epstein died by suicide in jail in 2019, according to authorities, and Jean-Luc Brunel died in French custody in 2022 while awaiting trial, leaving Maxwell serving a 20-year prison sentence and Democrats still pressing for more records and testimony.
Democrats' Next Reports
Republican lawmakers were not invited to the field hearing, and Democrats framed the event as the start of a broader release strategy rather than a one-off proceeding. The practical question now is how much more material Oversight Democrats disclose in the months ahead, and whether the Justice Department's redactions and withheld files keep slowing the push for the remaining Epstein documents.
