The DOJ's Jeffrey Epstein Files Are Here

Well, they’re yet here. On Friday, the United States Department of Justice released a ample trove of files related to infamous convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein. The merchandise comes conscionable 8 hours earlier the deadline mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Donald Trump signed into instrumentality past month.

For the Trump administration, Epstein has been “a feline that ne'er dies,” successful the words of Trump himself. Since the commencement of Trump’s 2nd term, the DOJ and FBI person been scouring the agencies’ investigative holdings and releasing portions of that successful spurts. While Friday’s merchandise marks the largest trove of Epstein-related documents to date, the DOJ did not merchandise each the documents successful its possession, perchance mounting disconnected a ineligible combat that could pb to impeachment oregon adjacent prosecution of section officials nether the law

In July, a joint memo from the DOJ and FBI said that aft an “exhaustive review” of records, it had uncovered “more than 300 gigabytes of information and carnal evidence.” Not each of that is portion of today’s release. The DOJ is allowed to withhold oregon redact definite categories of accusation from nationalist disclosure, including accusation that would place victims (the memo noted that a ample information of the grounds included images and videos of victims) and amerciable kid enactment maltreatment worldly (which the memo said was besides included successful the holdings.) The DOJ volition person to taxable a study to Congress wrong 15 days listing the categories of records released and withheld, arsenic good arsenic a summary of redactions made and their ineligible basis.

The merchandise includes materials gathered arsenic portion of DOJ investigations into Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is presently serving a 20-year situation condemnation for crimes related to Epstein. That includes logged physical evidence, scans of call logs, an full scan of Massage for Dummies, and more.

As portion of their compliance with the Epstein transparency law, DOJ attorneys filed respective motions to unseal expansive assemblage materials successful matters related to Epstein and Maxwell. Those motions were granted earlier this month.

In summation to those materials, the instrumentality requires the DOJ to merchandise different types of accusation successful its possession, including those related to individuals and organizations with known oregon alleged ties to Epstein and his transgression networks, interior communications astir decisions connected whether to analyse oregon complaint Epstein, and records related to his death portion successful his cell.