Overview
- Judge Richard Berman directed the Justice Department to describe its Epstein holdings and explain its redaction process to protect survivors’ identities by Dec. 1.
- Lawyers say the House Oversight Committee’s public cache of more than 20,000 documents included dozens of unredacted victim names, triggering what they called widespread panic.
- One document cited by the attorneys listed at least 28 victims, including people who were minors at the time and others granted protective status for safety reasons.
- Attorneys Bradley Edwards and Brittany Henderson, who represent hundreds of survivors, asked to privately provide a list of more than 300 clients so names can be shielded in any future releases.
- The DOJ faces a Dec. 19 deadline under the newly signed Epstein Files Transparency Act, and a U.S. attorney told another court the department intends to withhold or redact victim information to the fullest extent permitted.