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United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

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Feb 5, 2026

How have prosecutors and courts handled diary entries and unverified victim documents in the Epstein files?

has attempted to balance a of with and evidentiary caution, but its execution — including posting diary entries and other unverified victim documents — produced serious redaction failures, rapid remov...

Feb 4, 2026

How have courts treated unredacted or accidentally released victim information in the DOJ Epstein files?

The immediate judicial response to the publication of records has been reactive: victims’ lawyers moved judges to halt or remove materials they say exposed victim identities, the DOJ alerted courts it...

Feb 4, 2026

who has access to the unredacted epstein files? and who precisely redacted them

are controlled by the U.S. Department of Justice and by select government actors granted special access, while thousands of pages were processed and redacted by DOJ teams and — though reporting and pu...

Feb 4, 2026

How did redaction failures occur in the DOJ release and what do courts say about remedying exposed victim information?

January release of millions of suffered widespread, that left names, photos, emails and other identifying material exposed—problems attributed to “technical or human error” and moved quickly to remove...

Feb 3, 2026

What methodology did the DOJ use when it said it identified over 1,200 victims or family members in Epstein files?

says it identified more than 1,200 victims or family members in the files as part of its compliance work, but the agency has not published a detailed technical account of the precise counting method; ...

Nov 15, 2025

What was Pam Bondi's role in the 2013 investigation of Jeffrey Epstein?

Pam Bondi in 2025 — while serving as U.S. Attorney General — publicly pushed for and launched new steps in federal review of Jeffrey Epstein materials, saying she had declassified and publicly release...