Overview
- The Justice Department says the Southern District of New York and the FBI provided over a million additional documents that must be reviewed and redacted for release under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
- Officials say the process could take a few more weeks, with lawyers working around the clock and prosecutors asked to volunteer over the holidays to accelerate review.
- Rolling releases have already produced large batches, including nearly 30,000 pages on Tuesday, though heavy and sometimes erroneous redactions and technical re-uploads have fueled criticism.
- After the department missed the Dec. 19 statutory deadline, a bipartisan group of senators requested an inspector general review and lawmakers threatened contempt to enforce compliance.
- Recent files include a 2019 email referencing 10 possible co-conspirators and numerous references to public figures, which officials caution are not evidence of wrongdoing; the FBI also determined a purported Epstein letter to Larry Nassar was fake.