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A House Oversight Committee report published Tuesday, written by Republicans, found Jeffrey Epstein's crimes after 2005 could have been prevented. The 136-page report, the result of a 15-month investigation, cited repeated failures by law enforcement and federal prosecutors in cases involving Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. PBS NewsHour reported that the committee conducted 19 transcribed interviews or depositions, including with Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and former Attorney General Pam Bondi. Chair James Comer, R-Ky., said the federal government had failed the survivors and urged the Justice Department to re-interview key witnesses and investigate Epstein associates accused of criminal activity. House Democrats, who take over the committee in January, called the report partisan, misleading and incomplete. Ranking member Robert Garcia, D-Calif., said it was based on an incomplete investigation with no public hearings and pointed to millions of pages of documents he said the Justice Department was withholding. The report referred two unnamed Epstein associates to the Justice Department based on testimony from former assistant Sarah Kellen, who said Epstein abused her and that the two associates abused her too. The report said former assistant Lesley Groff's claim that she knew nothing of Epstein's crimes was not credible, and it said Jes Staley's inability to recall key details was also not credible. Kellen said former Miami Mayor Philip Levine abused her, and Levine has denied the allegations.