The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million files in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The latest document drop contains more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images and contain information related to the “Florida and New York cases against Epstein, the New York case against Maxwell, the New York cases investigating Epstein’s death, the Florida case investigating a former butler of Epstein, Multiple FBI investigations, and the Office of Inspector General investigation into Epstein’s death,” the DOJ explained.
In a letter to Congress, the DOJ explained that “[p]rudently over-collecting, coupled with past intra-Department sharing of (and, therefore, duplication of) files across offices and jurisdictions, necessarily means that the number of non duplicative, responsive pages is significantly smaller than the total number of pages initially collected.”
The document drop comes as DOJ officials told judges this week that the Department “continues to make substantial progress in its efforts to identify potentially responsive documents, review those documents, redact victim identifying information and privileged information, engage in quality control processes, and prepare responsive documents for publication” in line with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
“The Department currently expects that it will complete these processes with respect to substantially all of the potentially responsive documents, including publication to the Epstein Library website, in the near term,” the filing states. “The Department is not able to provide a specific date at this time and cautions that its ongoing processes, including its quality control checks and document management system preparations, may require additional efforts to ensure the protection of victim identifying information while complying with the broad demands of the Act.”
