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\n The House Oversight Committee has discussed with Jeffrey Epstein survivors the possibility of the women providing affidavits about longtime Epstein assistant Lesley Groff \u2013 coming on the heels of multiple survivors telling CNN that Groff had lied to the committee last month.\n <\/p>\n

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\n The ongoing deliberations between the committee and Epstein survivors were confirmed to CNN by three sources familiar with the matter and have not been previously reported. One Epstein survivor and two family members of another victim also told CNN that they were asked by the committee to comb through the transcript of Groff\u2019s interview with the panel and alert the committee to anything that looks problematic.\n <\/p>\n

\n These developments signal that the committee is taking the accounts of Epstein survivors seriously and preparing to hold Groff accountable if she is found to have lied to Congress. While it is not clear what additional steps, if any, the committee might ultimately take related to Groff, lying to Congress is a crime. Committee investigators have also been poring over Groff\u2019s testimony and references in the Epstein files to determine whether Groff was truthful.\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN has reached out to Groff\u2019s lawyer for comment. They did not respond to CNN\u2019s previous request for comment about what survivors said about her interview with Congress.\n <\/p>\n

\n Groff worked for Epstein for almost two decades and managed every detail of Epstein\u2019s day-to-day schedule, making her transcribed interview session with the House Oversight Committee in June a significant part of Congress\u2019 ongoing investigation into Epstein. She has denied any knowledge of Epstein\u2019s crimes, and told lawmakers last month that she had been duped by a \u201cmaster manipulator and deceiver.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n But the release of her interview transcript drew outrage from Epstein survivors. CNN reported on survivors taking issue with some of Groff\u2019s key claims, including her insistence that she never met any of the girls and women whom she arranged to give massages to Epstein.\n <\/p>\n

\n Six Epstein survivors previously told CNNthey did meet Groff in person and were dismayed to learn of Groff\u2019s denial.\n <\/p>\n

\n Lara Blume McGee, who says she met Epstein as an aspiring model and was abused from 2001 to 2003, said she remembers meeting Groff at least twice at Epstein\u2019s townhouse, while Lisa Phillips, who says she was in her early 20s when she first met Epstein, told CNN: \u201cOf course I\u2019ve met her in person.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Groff also repeatedly told lawmakers that she never asked for or knew the ages of the girls and young women who came to see Epstein, including the fact that some of them were minors. She also said she was never aware that some were coming from local high schools.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Epstein survivor Marina Lacerda told CNN that Groff regularly asked her detailed questions about new girls that Lacerda planned to bring to Epstein, and that Groff was sensitive to Epstein\u2019s preference for younger girls \u2013 so much so that she started asking Lacerda to tell her friends to bring their school IDs to their sessions with Epstein.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cShe would ask, \u2018What does the girl look like? Where is she from? How\u202fold\u202fis she?\u2019 over the phone,\u201d Lacerda said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Another survivor, Sharlene Rochard, said it was not possible that Groff didn\u2019t know her age, because she had Rochard\u2019s passport information to plan travel. \u201cOf course she knew how\u202fold\u202fwe were because she had to look at our IDs to book our flight,\u201d Rochard said.\n <\/p>\n

\n One anonymous woman said she was also \u201c100 percent\u201d certain Groff knew that she was a minor. \u201cI went to a private Catholic school and she would always ask me to leave school early,\u201d she said. Epstein liked to see her in her school uniform, and that she said there were many times when Groff saw her wearing her uniform.\n <\/p>\n

\n Survivors said Groff also was not telling the truth when she said she never directly paid the girls and women; some described receiving fresh cash in white envelopes from Groff during their years of abuse.\n <\/p>\n

\n Lacedra, who said she was just shy of turning 14 when she first met Epstein, told CNN Wednesday that she would be glad to provide an affidavit to the oversight committee about Groff.\n <\/p>\n

\n The committee did not comment for this story. A spokeswoman for the committee previously told CNN that the committee is \u201ccurrently reviewing Ms. Groff\u2019s transcript against the available evidence.\u201d She added: \u201cWe welcome any additional evidence from individuals who possess information.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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