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Nearly All Epstein Files Still Unreleased A Month After Congress

Bonisiwe Shabane
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nearly all epstein files still unreleased a month after congress

Over 2 million documents are under DoJ review despite ‘legal obligation’ from Epstein Files Transparency Act The law was clear: Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was required to disclose all investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein by 19 December 2025, with rare exceptions. One month after this deadline mandated by Congress’s Epstein Files Transparency Act, however, Trump’s justice department has not complied with this law, prompting questions about when – and whether – authorities will ever release... Justice department attorneys said in a 5 January Manhattan court filing that they had posted approximately 12,285 to DoJ’s website, equating to some 125,575 pages, under this legislation’s requirements. They said in this same letter that justice department staff had identified “more than 2 million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review”. That these DoJ’s disclosures apparently comprise a drop in the bucket – and have done little to shed light on how Epstein operated with apparent impunity for years – has roiled survivors’ advocates and...

They include attorney Spencer Kuvin, who has represented dozens of Epstein’s survivors. Monday marks one month since the deadline for the Justice Department to release all of its files related to Jeffrey Epstein, but only a fraction of the records have been made public. The delays have frustrated Epstein's victims and brought warnings of repercussions from the co-authors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif. Massie claimed in a statement to NBC News on Friday that “Attorney General Bondi is making illegal redactions and withholding key documents that would implicate associates of Epstein.” In a separate statement Friday, Khanna said "DOJ's refusal to follow the law" is "an obstruction of justice."

"They also need to release the FBI witness interviews which name other men, so the public can know who was involved. That is why Massie and I are bringing inherent contempt against Bondi and requested a special master to oversee this process,” he said. Few Americans are satisfied with the amount of evidence released in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with most saying they believe the government is intentionally holding back information. The poll was conducted a little less than a month after the December 19 deadline that Congress gave the Justice Department to release all of its files about Epstein. The Justice Department estimated earlier in January that it had released less than 1% of its Epstein-related files. Department officials told a court Friday they had enlisted approximately 80 more attorneys from the department’s criminal division to work with prosecutors in New York’s Southern District to review documents related the convicted sex...

A two-thirds majority of Americans say the federal government is intentionally holding back some information about the Epstein case that should be released, while just 16% say the government is making an effort to... The remainder say they haven’t heard enough about the case to say. Nearly 9 in 10 Democrats and 72% of independents say the government is intentionally withholding information, as do 42% of Republicans. Officials, however, gave no timeline for the release of the remaining files. Justice Department officials said in a letter submitted to two federal judges Thursday that they are making "substantial progress" reviewing items related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein -- but gave no indication... The letter said "over five hundred" federal prosecutors and staff members from the Southern District of New York and the Justice Department's criminal division are reviewing and redacting millions of pages from the investigations...

The review has found "substantial" duplication in various files, so the estimated number of documents is "in flux," the letter said. "Due to the scope of this effort, platform operations require around-the-clock attention and technical assistance to resolve inevitable glitches due to the sheer volume of materials," said the letter, which is signed by Jay... Less than 1 percent of them have been released. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. There was a moment this fall when it seemed like the public might actually get some answers—that the extent of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes might be exposed, and that his victims might...

On November 19, President Trump reluctantly signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which required the Justice Department to publish a huge number of its unclassified files related to the late financier (and unrelated to... But what actually arrived on December 19, the Friday before Christmas, was a relatively small (and sloppily redacted) tranche of files that raised far more questions than it answered. Nearly a month later, not a whole lot has changed. Despite having published a second batch, the DOJ has still released less than 1 percent of the millions of documents now under review. If the Justice Department has legitimate reasons for its delay, it hasn’t thoroughly explained what they are. In a letter yesterday, Attorney General Pam Bondi and other DOJ officials framed the problem as purely logistical, citing “inevitable glitches due to the sheer volume of materials.” They noted that the department has...

Frank Figliuzzi, a former high-ranking FBI official who has handled nationwide investigations involving massive amounts of raw data, told me he’s skeptical of that defense. During his tenure, he explained, the bureau became highly digitized, bringing in all sorts of new tools to speed up the process of redactions and disclosures. “If we’re led to believe that human beings have to go through all of this, I’m not buying all of that,” he said. After President Donald Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, hopes on both sides of the political aisle were high regarding what would be revealed in the hotly anticipated trove of Department of Justice... But when the December 19, 2025 deadline for the release of the files arrived, the document drop was less revelatory than either the left or right expected. A letter from the files that appeared to be from Epstein to Larry Nassar, the former physician for the U.S.

women’s Olympic gymnastics team who is currently serving a 175-year sentence for multiple sexual crimes, was apparently a fake. Thousands and thousands of context-free photos depicted mundane matters such as real estate, pets, or previously known associates. Epstein in a mud mask or his toes in Ghislaine Maxwell's cleavage might be unsettling, but is hardly what former deputy FBI director Dan Bongino once claimed would be revealed when the first dump... Jeffrey Epstein and Ghistlane Maxwell, in a photo from in the December, 2025 Epstein files release. But the files we saw in December were less that 1 percent of what the Department of Justice has on hand, Attorney General Pam Bondi said earlier this month. In a January 5, 2026 update sent to Paul A.

Engelmayer the Southern District of New York judge overseeing the court-ordered document release, Bondi wrote that more than two million additional documents remained "in various phases of review,” with around 400 justice department lawyers... Those efforts didn't begin when the Act was signed, Vanity Fair reported last March. The FBI's New York field office has been “literally all hands on deck” to review files released to the Epstein investigation, a situation described by one FBI veteran as a “ludicrous." The entire process... More than two weeks after the deadline for the release of all files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, top Department of Justice officials have disclosed that more than 99% percent of... Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche wrote in an update to a federal judge who oversaw the case against Epstein’s case on Monday that over two million documents “remain in... According to the letter, the DOJ has released roughly 12,285 documents to date, totalling around 125,575 pages of material.

The officials reiterated that the review of the remaining files will require an enormous undertaking, estimating that around 400 lawyers “will dedicate all or a substantial portion of their workday to comply” with the... They added that more than 100 “specially trained document analysts with experience handling sensitive victim materials” from the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be assisting. WASHINGTON ‒ Overwhelming votes in both chambers of Congress directing the Justice Department to release the full files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation sent a clear message: Make it all public. Yet there's reason to doubt all the information collected by the federal government during its investigation into the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender will see the light of day despite the House and... Here's why the complete Epstein documents still might not come out even when President Donald Trump signs the Epstein Files Transparency Act, as he has said he would. Two days before Trump changed his tune by calling for House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files, the president ordered the Justice Department to investigate Democrats linked to Epstein, who died by...

Trump singled out former President Bill Clinton, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman, as well as JPMorgan Chase, as subjects of investigations. The US justice department will begin releasing long-awaited files related to Jeffrey Epstein as mandated by a new law, though not all documents would be made public on Friday, a top official says. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department expects to publish "several hundred thousand pages" initially, followed by more over the coming weeks. The Friday deadline was mandated by a bill that got near-unanimous support in Congress, and was later signed into law by US President Donald Trump after he reversed his earlier opposition to the release. Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer has said not releasing all the files before the deadline amounts to breaking the law. The files relate to investigations into the disgraced late sex offender, but it is likely that much of the content will be heavily redacted.

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