DOJ pleads with lawyers to get through 'grind' of Epstein files as criticism of redactions continues

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2026, 4:25 PM ET


The Justice Department is still struggling to process the massive trove of Epstein files and is prodding hundreds of lawyers reviewing pages to work faster, according to a recent email from DOJ leadership and court filings over the past few days.

“It is a grind,” the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division Tysen Duva wrote on Friday to the document review team who reports to him. “While we certainly encourage aggressive overachievers, we need reviewers to hit the 1,000-page mark each day.”

The email is the latest indication of how burdensome the task has become for the Justice Department to make the Epstein files public in compliance with a transparency law, with redactions. It was first reported by Bloomberg News. “No one is suggesting this is how we wanted to start the year in terms of our focus,” Duva wrote. “But, this is the task at hand. We must complete it. The sooner that we do, the sooner this is over.”

The Justice Department has added lawyers in Washington, New York and Florida to the review effort.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/13/politics/epstein-files-justice-department-prosecutors-grind

[Henry203]

1. Total BS

I work in ediscovery. There is software that does most of this work. This is a delay tactic.

[2naSalit]

2. Quit fucking whining!

Geez.

[Hugin]

3. "Trump's Unusual Criminal Chief Pick Benefits From West Wing Ties" - Bloomberg

“A small-office prosecutor without supervisory experience has leapfrogged into a Trump nomination to lead 600 Justice Department criminal attorneys in Washington—thanks in part to his ties to the White House chief of staff.

Tysen Duva’s path to head the criminal division, a role more focused on bureaucratic management than specific cases, originated eight years ago. As a Jacksonville, Fla.-based assistant US attorney, Duva called Susie Wiles to the witness stand in his public corruption trial of a 12-term Democratic House member.

Wiles, who is now President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, was then a Florida GOP power broker who came away impressed with Duva’s courtroom skills, said Hank Coxe, her attorney in the proceeding. Wiles’ testimony led to a guilty verdict and two-plus years in prison for Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.).

Once Trump retook the White House, Duva was determined to land a higher-ranking DOJ position after nearly two decades as a successful criminal trial lawyer, said Coxe and another friend of Duva’s.”

Link (partial paywall): https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/trumps-unusual-criminal-chief-pick-benefits-from-west-wing-ties

This unqualified pick for Assistant DA Criminal Division belongs to Wiles. I don’t know anything about the Rep Corrine Brown (D-FL) conviction. If a GOP powerbroker was testifying against them, this would make me wonder. So…”Her conviction was later overturned on appeal and the court ordered she be retried on the charges. On May 17, 2022, she pleaded guilty on the charges to avoid a second trial.” From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrine_Brown

[moniss]

4. Sounds like cover being created to fight the coming

legal actions.