Were federal or state prosecutors still pursuing investigations tied to Jeffrey Epstein after 2023?

1. Federal investigators produced a July 2025 memo finding no predicate for new probes

Reporting and summaries indicate that in July 2025 the Justice Department and FBI circulated a memo concluding investigators “did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties,” a document cited repeatedly by outlets summarizing the federal posture toward further criminal probes tied to Epstein ^{[1] [4] [2]}.

2. Still, the DOJ and political leaders were under pressure and later reopened targeted probes at the president’s direction

Despite the July memo, in November 2025 President Trump publicly directed the DOJ to investigate Epstein’s relationships with certain political and financial figures; the Justice Department agreed to follow that directive, with news outlets reporting the DOJ would “fulfill President Donald Trump’s request to investigate” ties to people named by the president ^{[2] [5]}. The move was described as divergent from the July memo’s conclusions ^{[4] [2]}.

3. Congress and the House Oversight Committee released large troves of documents after 2023

In late 2025 the House Oversight Committee released more than 20,000 pages of documents received from the Epstein estate, and House Republicans also published additional batches of emails subpoenaed from DOJ files; these disclosures intensified calls for investigatory follow‑up and for DOJ to disclose its own files ^{[3] [6] [7]}.

4. Media coverage emphasizes documents, political conflict and competing narratives

Mainstream outlets framed the story as both a factual disclosure of a large body of emails and as a partisan flashpoint: some outlets highlighted the DOJ/FBI memo finding no basis for further probes, while others reported the DOJ would undertake investigatory steps after presidential direction, and political actors on both sides sought the files for their own narratives ^{[1] [2] [8]}.

5. Oversight bills and congressional actions sought fuller access to DOJ files

By November 2025 the House was moving toward votes to force the Justice Department to release additional Epstein‑related files, with proponents citing transparency for survivors and critics saying the bills risk politicizing ongoing matters; congressional committees were explicitly pushing to make DOJ files public subject to redactions for victims and ongoing investigations ^{[9] [10] [11]}.

6. State prosecutions and local inquiries: reporting is sparse or absent in these sources

The provided sources focus on federal activity, White House directives and congressional document releases; they do not offer a clear accounting of state or local prosecutors’ active investigations tied to Epstein after 2023. Available sources do not mention a comprehensive set of ongoing state‑level prosecutions or investigations post‑2023 (not found in current reporting).

7. What the public record shows about “co‑conspirator” probes

Material cited by congressional Democrats and some survivor counsel suggested the Southern District of New York had been investigating co‑conspirators before mid‑2025, and later statements from House Democrats alleged that investigations into co‑conspirators were halted; other documents say prosecutors reviewed materials and reached the July conclusion there was insufficient evidence to predicate new investigations ^{[12] [1]}.

8. Competing explanations and possible motivations

Reporting shows two competing narratives: one is that investigators reviewed Epstein files and found no evidence to open new cases (the DOJ/FBI July memo), and the other is political actors and the president asserting the need for new probes and pressing DOJ to act ^{[1] [2]}. Observers and news outlets framed these moves variously as accountability and transparency efforts or as politically driven maneuvers to shift attention; each outlet emphasized different facts and priorities ^{[8] [13]}.

9. Bottom line and limits of the reporting

The public record in these sources indicates federal investigators concluded in July 2025 they lacked predicate evidence for new investigations but that in November 2025 the Justice Department said it would pursue probes at the president’s request; meanwhile Congress released large volumes of documents and sought DOJ files ^{[1] [2] [3]}. These sources do not provide a detailed, authoritative catalog of every federal, state or local investigatory step after 2023, so questions about the full universe of active state prosecutions or sealed local inquiries remain unanswered in the documents supplied (not found in current reporting).