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A reporter famous for exposing notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein is warning that one of his allies is about to take power.

Julie K. Brown, whose Miami Herald investigation into Epstein's sweetheart plea deal helped reopen the case against him, wrote in a Saturday piece for her Substack newsletter, "The Epstein Files," that Stacey Plaskett, who represents the U.S. Virgin Islands in Congress, is likely to become the territory's next governor.

Her rise, Brown argued, shows "that not everyone who helped enable Jeffrey Epstein suffered career-ending consequences."...

A CNN anchor got in a fiery exchange with a GOP lawmaker over the Epstein files on Tuesday, just ahead of the vote.

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) was in a conversation with CNN's Boris Sanchez about the discharge petition when the conversation turned into a yelling match — with both of the men speaking over each other — after Sanchez brought up questions of what President Donald Trump knows about the information in the files.

Van Orden said he had met with four of the women who are survivors of Epstein, and he plans to vote to call for a release of the information. He also added that there needs to be protections for the victims, but that there were "no adequate" protections for them in the current discharge petition he called "poorly written legislation." ...

At least 62 members of 118th Congress have violated a federal insider trading and conflicts-of-interest law, a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial disclosures reveals.

Most of these violations involve failures to properly disclose stock trades as required by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012. Some involve not abiding by the transparency and personal financial disclosure requirements first outlined in the STOCK Act's post-Watergate predecessor, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

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Since Jan. 1, at least 37 members of Congress have violated a federal insider trading and conflicts-of-interest law, a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial disclosures reveals.

Most of these violations involve failures to properly disclose stock trades as required by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012. Some involve not abiding by the transparency and personal financial disclosure requirements first outlined in the STOCK Act's post-Watergate predecessor, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

The most significant violator clocked in as much as six-and-a-half years late when reporting up to $8.5 million in stock transactions — Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA). Another lawmaker was just a couple days late but still logged up to $165,000 in late stock disclosures — Rep. John Curtis (R-UT). Between them are numerous other Republicans and Democrats alike who have consistently failed to abide by the STOCK Act....

Buried in a U.S. House report that alleges Rep. George Santos (R-NY) misused campaign funds on Botox treatments, Sephora products and OnlyFans, and personally benefited from all sorts of self-enriching misdeeds, House investigators also revealed that the freshman lawmaker failed to file an annual congressional financial disclosure report.

That last bit might sound a little … technical.

But members of Congress who don’t publicly disclose their personal finances in a timely manner are in violation of rules outlined by the House and Senate ethics committees as well as federal law: the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 and the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012. These laws are designed to safeguard against the very kinds of financial malfeasance for which Santos is accused. ...