Overview
- Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and the FBI notified DOJ of the discovery, and the materials have been transferred for processing.
- DOJ says the scale of the trove will delay publication for several weeks as lawyers make legally required redactions.
- CNN reported that DOJ asked federal prosecutors in Florida to volunteer for remote document review during the holiday period.
- Earlier batches included about 4,000 items on December 19 and roughly 30,000 on December 23, with Axios reporting around 200 staff working and hundreds of thousands of pages already public.
- Axios also reported plans to review roughly 700,000 additional pages within about a week, while lawmakers continue to criticize heavy redactions and note missing key files as media highlight references to high-profile figures without alleging crimes.