DoJ admits it has released less than 1% of Epstein files

The US Department of Justice has released less than 1% of the Epstein files, a court filing has revealed, as Democrats increase criticism of the Trump administration’s “lawlessness” for keeping records under seal.

- Richard Luscombe

The department conceded that only 12,285 documents, totalling 125,575 pages, relating to the disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have been published to date, despite a federal law requiring the vast majority to be released by 19 December.

Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, wrote a five-page update to Paul Engelmayer, the federal New York judge overseeing the case, saying that efforts to protect the identities of Epstein’s victims were a priority and had slowed the process.

"There are more than two million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review,” she wrote in the letter cosigned by Todd Blanche, her deputy, and Jay Clayton, US attorney for the southern district of New York.