Julie K. Brown, investigative journalist, posted on X on Sunday after seeing her name on an American Airlines flight itinerary contained in an Epstein file document, which was recently released by the Department of Justice.
Brown seemed shocked to see her flight information on a July 2019 trip to Florida in the newly released files attached to a grand jury subpoena. The trip occurred during Trump’s first administration and happened about a month before Epstein was found dead in his prison cell in New York.
Brown: “Why was the DOJ monitoring me?”
Congressional Democrats on the oversight committee reposted Brown’s query, demanding answers.
The Miami Herald began publishing a series of Brown’s reports in November 2018 that saw her identify 80 potential victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse, speaking to eight individuals about their experience.
Brown is credited with helping to reopen the case against Epstein after the convicted sex trafficker was allowed to plead guilty to two state-level prostitution offenses in 2008 as part of a plea deal with Florida prosecutors.