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Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche are on Capitol Hill to try to quell bipartisan frustration with the Justice Department’s handling of millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking investigation. The country’s top federal law enforcement officials were providing a closed-door briefing Wednesday to members of the House Oversight Committee about the tranche of documents. They have become a political headache that the Trump administration has struggled to shake for more than a year. The Justice Department remains consumed by questions and criticism over Epstein’s case and its management of the files.

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Three brothers, including two of the nation’s most successful luxury real estate brokers, have been convicted of charges that they conspired to drug and rape multiple women. The verdict in the five-week trial of Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander came on Monday, leaving all three brothers shaking their heads as “guilty” was repeated 19 times. The verdict followed weeks of testimony by 11 women who said they were sexually assaulted by one or more of the brothers at fancy locales, often after receiving a drink that they believed was laced with drugs. The brothers had pleaded not guilty to charges that carried a potential life prison sentence. A defense lawyer promised to appeal.

State investigators have begun searching of a secluded ranch in New Mexico where financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein once entertained guests amid allegations that the property may have been used for sexual abuse and sex trafficking of young women. The office of state Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Monday announced the search at Epstein's Zorro Ranch in cooperation with its current owners. Torrez last month reopened an investigation of the ranch. The state's initial case was closed in 2019 at the request of federal prosecutors in New York. Additionally, state legislators in New Mexico have launched a commission to investigate past activity at the ranch.