Wasserman Schultz Files No Escaping Justice Act to Hold Global Figures Implicated in Epstein Files to Account

Washington, March 6, 2026
“After House Democrats successfully forced the Trump Administration to release the Epstein Files, there remains a glaring absence of real transparency and a total lack of accountability,” said Wasserman Schultz. “Trump's Department of Justice, under Attorney General Pam Bondi, is too focused on covering up Trump's relationship with Epstein and refuses to investigate the wealthy, powerful individuals who were clearly complicit in these abuses. This is a first step to bring some measure of justice for foreign nationals who conspired with Epstein to sexually exploit American children.”

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) announced her new bill to impose sanctions on foreign nationals incriminated in the Epstein files, the No Escaping Justice Act. Video of the announcement can be found here (6:30).

While Congress cannot punish individual Americans who the President and Attorney General refuse to prosecute, the No Escaping Justice Act would take immediate action to hold foreign nationals whose involvement in sex trafficking has been revealed in the Epstein files to account for exploiting young girls in the United States and failing to report Epstein's crimes to American law enforcement. 

“After House Democrats successfully forced the Trump Administration to release the Epstein Files, there remains a glaring absence of real transparency and a total lack of accountability,” said Wasserman Schultz. “Trump's Department of Justice, under Attorney General Pam Bondi, is too focused on covering up Trump's relationship with Epstein and refuses to investigate the wealthy, powerful individuals who were clearly complicit in these abuses. This is a first step to bring some measure of justice for foreign nationals who conspired with Epstein to sexually exploit American children.”

The bill would require the Administration to provide Congress with a list of foreign nationals who engaged in the following practices, based on credible information in the possession of the U.S. government, including evidence from the Epstein Files: 

  • sex trafficking of minors; 
  • aiding, abetting, or facilitating trafficking in persons; 
  • benefiting financially from participating in such activities; or 
  • obstructing investigations into these crimes
These individuals would then be subject to a visa ban, prohibiting them from being admitted into the U.S., as well as asset-blocking sanctions. If the President seeks to exempt one of these individuals from sanctions based on national security, he must report his complete reasoning to Congress.

The full text of the bill can be found here.
 

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