Overview
- Justice Department officials are seeking about 400 attorneys to review roughly 5.2 million pages, drawing in national security prosecutors and staff in New York and Florida.
- Releases continue in batches after the missed Dec. 19 deadline, with files heavily redacted, not fully searchable, and some items briefly removed then restored to the portal.
- Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown says her July 2019 American Airlines itinerary appeared in the files attached to a grand jury subpoena, prompting House Oversight Democrats to demand an explanation.
- The DOJ says it received over a million additional documents from SDNY and the FBI and warns some materials may contain untrue or fabricated items, stressing that names appearing in the files do not establish wrongdoing.
- Senate Democrats Dick Durbin and Sheldon Whitehouse asked White House chief of staff Susie Wiles to explain any access to Epstein materials and her role, if any, in the partial release.