The Justice Department has released millions of pages of records related to its investigation into Jefferey Epstein.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Friday that the department’s disclosure included more than 2,000 videos, 180,000 images and some 3 million pages of documents.
Blanche said that the records will include “significant redactions” to protect the Epstein’s victims.
The files, posted to the department’s website, resumes disclosures under a law intended to reveal what the government knew about the millionaire financier’s sexual abuse of young girls and his interactions with the rich and powerful.
The Trump administration has received criticism over the slow pace at which the documents have been released. Congress’ Epstein Files Transparency Act mandated that the Justice Department disclose all investigative files on Epstein by Dec. 19, 2025. But more than a month after that deadline, the department had only released approximately 12,300 pages, only a fraction of the “several million” of pages of records.
DOJ officials have defended the delays, citing the need for robust redactions to protect victims. The department said it tasked hundreds of lawyers with reviewing the records to determine what needs to be redacted, or blacked out, to protect the identities of victims of sexual abuse.
The Justice Department released tens of thousands of pages of documents just before Christmas, including photographs, interview transcripts, call logs and court records. Many of them were either already public or heavily blacked out.
Those records included previously released flight logs showing that Donald Trump flew on Epstein’s private jet in the 1990s, before they had a falling out, and several photographs of former President Bill Clinton. Neither Trump, a Republican, nor Clinton, a Democrat, has been publicly accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, and both have said they had no knowledge he was abusing underage girls.
Also released last month were transcripts of grand jury testimony from FBI agents who described interviews they had with several girls and young women who said they were paid to perform sex acts for Epstein.
Epstein killed himself in a New York jail cell in August 2019, a month after he was indicted on federal sex trafficking charges.
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