The Justice Department said late Thursday it has made “substantial progress” on its ongoing review of millions of documents that may be related to Jeffrey Epstein, thanks to the efforts of hundreds of reviewers, but did not provide any information about when the next release of files may come, despite the fact that the legal deadline to publish the records was Dec. 19.
The department has argued that the millions of pages of documents that need to be uploaded, reviewed, redacted, and published forced it to release the files online on a rolling basis. So far, the Justice Department has released 12,285 documents out of the more than two million that it must make available under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton said in a letter that the department “remains focused on releasing materials under the Act promptly while protecting victim privacy.”
DOJ says it has over 500 people reviewing millions of pages of Epstein files