U.S. attorneys to assessment hundreds of thousands of pages of Epstein recordsdata in January earlier than additional launch, doc exhibits

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The U.S. Justice Division (DOJ) revealed it has 5.2 million pages of Epstein recordsdata left to assessment and desires 400 attorneys from 4 totally different division places of work to assist with the method by means of late January, in accordance with a authorities doc reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday.

That is more likely to lengthen the ultimate launch of the paperwork to a lot later than anticipated after a Dec. 19 deadline set by Congress, the doc stated.

The White Home and the Justice Division didn't instantly reply to Reuters's requests for remark.

The Trump administration ordered the Justice Division to launch the recordsdata tied to felony probes of Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted intercourse offender, who was buddies with U.S. President Donald Trump within the Nineties, in compliance with a transparency legislation handed by Congress final month.

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The assessment will happen in January, the doc added.

Division leaders are providing telework choices and time without work awards as incentives for volunteers, the doc stated, including that attorneys who help will probably be anticipated to dedicate three to 5 hours a day to assessment about 1,000 paperwork a day.

The DOJ stated final week it had uncovered greater than a million extra paperwork probably linked to Epstein.

Up to now, the disclosures have been closely redacted, irritating some Republicans and doing little to quell a scandal that threatens the celebration forward of the 2026 midterm elections.

The legislation, accepted by Congress with broad bipartisan help, requires all Epstein-related recordsdata to be made public, regardless of Trump’s months-long effort to maintain them sealed. Underneath the statute, all paperwork have been to be launched by Dec. 19, with redactions to guard victims.

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Canadian intercourse offender and vogue mogul Peter Nygard was amongst three Canadians talked about in the newest launch of recordsdata linked to Jeffrey Epstein. The paperwork revealed that the FBI and U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of New York sought an interview with ex-prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor for connections to Nygard. Former U.S. federal prosecutor Joe Moreno explains what, if something, this might imply for Nygard. Trump knew Epstein socially within the Nineties and early 2000s. He has stated their affiliation ended within the mid-2000s and that he was by no means conscious of the financier's sexual abuse.

Epstein was convicted in Florida in 2008 of procuring an individual beneath the age of 18 for prostitution. The Justice Division charged him with intercourse trafficking in 2019. Epstein was discovered useless in 2019 in a New York jail and his loss of life was dominated a suicide.

In a message shared on X final week, the Justice Division stated, "Now we have attorneys working across the clock to assessment and make the legally required redactions to guard victims, and we'll launch the paperwork as quickly as attainable. As a result of mass quantity of fabric, this course of might take a couple of extra weeks."