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The publicly available roll‑call evidence shows , while the procedural defeats were driven by Republican opposition. Multiple contemporaneous reports and committee roll calls published in September 20...
has published a small, heavily redacted tranche of records from its Jeffrey — roughly 12,285 documents totaling about 125,575 pages — while telling courts and that millions more are under review, a di...
The Department of Justice’s public releases related to Jeffrey Epstein between 2024 and early 2026 include searchable collections of emails, photos, court records and other investigative materials tha...
Reporting and public documents show that Jeffrey Epstein’s case involved many civil settlements and a controversial 2008 federal non‑prosecution agreement (NPA); some documents and officials describe ...
Federal executive control and Congress are the main actors disputing who may release or withhold “Epstein files”: the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been repeatedly identified as the repository that ...
Newly released material and past court records confirm Jeffrey Epstein ran a large sex‑trafficking operation that involved hundreds of victims and a broad social network; court documents have named ro...
The Justice Department has acknowledged that it has published fewer than 1% of its Jeffrey Epstein–related records — roughly 12,285 documents totaling about 125,575 pages — while more than two million...
Public reporting and recently released documents point to a small number of people who prosecutors and juries, and extensive press coverage, identify as central to Jeffrey Epstein’s recruitment and fa...
Congress has moved aggressively to make more Epstein-related materials public: the House passed the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act and the Senate approved it, sending the bill to the Presid...
Federal executive and legislative bodies, several federal courts, and private parties hold large troves of so‑called “Epstein files” estimated at hundreds of gigabytes; the Department of Justice/FBI h...
Survivor advocates publicly demanded near-complete disclosure of Justice Department records about Jeffrey Epstein, arguing that partial releases and heavy redactions have frustrated accountability and...
Two main official developments shape the debate: a July 2025 unsigned Justice Department/FBI memo concluded investigators found “no evidence” that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered and that there was no “c...
The Justice Department’s December release of Jeffrey Epstein records was partial, heavily redacted and followed by the unexplained removal of at least 16 files — developments that lawmakers and advoca...
Federal courts and Congress forced the Department of Justice to produce large troves of Jeffrey Epstein–related records, including flight logs and a redacted contact book, while the DOJ has responded ...
The DOJ inspector general’s public work on Jeffrey Epstein’s jail death is not directly detailed in the documents collected here; available reporting and government releases focus on DOJ releases of E...
Publicly available reporting shows no single, unredacted “Epstein client list” has been released by the Justice Department; DOJ memos in July 2025 said it found no evidence Epstein ran a blackmail sch...
Reporting and the newly released Epstein estate and government documents focus on Jeffrey Epstein, his co‑conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, and a large number of survivors — not on a single perpetrator b...
Multiple news organizations and congressional records show renewed scrutiny of politicians’ ties to Jeffrey Epstein after House Democrats and Republicans released tens of thousands of pages of estate ...
Two parallel lines of pressure are now colliding over the Justice Department’s heavily redacted Epstein releases: formal congressional subpoenas from House investigators — most prominently an August 5...
The Epstein Files Transparency Act forced the Justice Department to publish vast troves of material, but the first releases were heavily redacted and revealed little new about the identities of allege...