Sen. Chuck Schumer wants the federal government to do away with the statute of limitations on sex abuse and trafficking victims' right to sue. Wednesday, he stood with Long Island victims and advocates to call for the change. Virginia's Law named for Epstein accuser Schumer introduced Virginia's Law, named for Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's earliest accusers. Giuffre advocated for victims' rights for years before she died by suicide in 2025. "For years, survivors of Epstein's abuse were ignored, were doubted and were silenced," Schumer said. "And even after the truth came out, too many were...

Proposed legislation, named after Virginia Giuffre, a survivor of Epstein’s abuse, also tackles jurisdiction Democrats in Congress were joined on Capitol Hill by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse to introduce legislation to end the statute of limitations and restrictions on jurisdiction in civil sexual abuse cases. The move comes less than two weeks after the justice department released 3.5m pages of heavily redacted documents related to Epstein, as ordered by the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act. “When the truth of Jeffrey Epstein finally started to come out, when the world finally started to listen to their stories,...

With support from World Without Exploitation, Liz Stein and more than 20 survivors led a powerful call on Capitol Hill for the release of the Epstein files and real accountability. Earlier this summer, I sat with Liz Stein at a kitchen table in Brooklyn. A survivor of abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, she was exhausted, and she was angry. A storm of media coverage of the Department of Justice’s interview of Maxwell left her surrounded by photos of her abusers, who had been enabled by the system so many times. When news came that Maxwell had been transferred...