US justice department reportedly reviewing more than 5m pages of Epstein files [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Wed 31 Dec 2025 13.18 EST
First published on Wed 31 Dec 2025 09.39 EST
The US justice department is believed to be reviewing more than 5m pages of documents relating to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein – an effort that is drawing resources away from existing cases, according to the New York Times.
The figure represents a significant expansion on earlier estimates, which drew on calculations based on 300 gigabytes of data, papers, videos, photographs and audio files held within FBI archives that relate to investigations in Florida and New York. In addition to the large number of documents that justice department prosecutors are still reviewing prior to public release, the department is looking to enlist about 400 lawyers to help in the review, according to the New York Times report.
Justice department officials told the paper that the effort to work through the voluminous records was drawing in prosecutors who worked on national security and criminal cases, as well as US attorneys’ offices in New York and Florida. The review is expected to take until at least 20 January, more than a month beyond the congressionally ordered 19 December release deadline.
Deputy attorney general Todd Blanche said in an Epstein files release update posted on X Wednesday that “DOJ lawyers from Main Justice, FBI, SDFL, and SDNY are working around the clock through the holidays, including Christmas and New Years, to review documents in compliance with federal law”.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/epstein-files-trump-doj
Sounds like complete bullshit now.
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