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Republicans on the House Oversight Committee released a report Tuesday concluding that federal investigators and prosecutors failed Jeffrey Epstein’s victims for decades, and called on the Justice Department to reopen parts of the case.

Getting into it: The 137-page report wraps up a 15-month investigation that included interviews with 19 people, among them former President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. It found Epstein’s abuse after 2005 could have been stopped if prosecutors in Florida and Washington had gone after the early accusations harder, blasting the 2007 deal that kept him out of federal court in exchange for a guilty plea on lighter state charges.

Epstein served 13 months in a Palm Beach County jail with daily work release, during which the report says he kept abusing women. It also flagged possible conflicts of interest among Florida prosecutors and faulted the New York jail where Epstein died in 2019, finding guards skipped required checks and went close to eight hours without looking in on him.

The report urges the Justice Department to interview or re-interview key witnesses, including Epstein’s longtime assistant Lesley Groff, and to investigate sexual assault allegations from another assistant, Sarah Kellen, against former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine and celebrity hairstylist Frederic Fekkai, both of whom deny them. It also criticized the department for exposing survivors’ identities in its release of the Epstein files, called on Treasury to review whether banks like American Express ignored signs of trafficking, and pushed for a law barring nondisclosure agreements from silencing abuse survivors. Republicans said they found no evidence implicating Trump and accused Democrats of an “unfounded witch hunt.”

“These women endured unimaginable abuse, and the federal government failed them at nearly every turn,” said committee Chair James Comer. “Had the government done its job, much of this abuse could have been prevented.”

The Justice Department said Comer’s recommendations “have already been addressed” and that the Epstein case remains open.

Rep. Robert Garcia, the committee’s top Democrat and expected chair next year, called the report “partisan,” saying Comer held no public hearings and that the Justice Department is still illegally withholding more than 2.5 million pages of documents.

“We intend to hold real public hearings uplifting survivors and asking tough questions of the powerful men who associated with Epstein, including Donald Trump. Our work is just getting started,” Garcia said.

This all comes as Democrats prepare to take over the committee in January, weeks after releasing their own report calling for a special counsel to investigate Trump’s ties to Epstein, which the White House has dismissed as untrue and politically motivated.