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The Justice Department's release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein's case
Jeffrey Epstein did visit the White House: public records, media investigations and archival schedules show Epstein made multiple visits to the Clinton White House in the 1990s, including a first reco...
The files were published because Congress forced the Justice Department to release unclassified Epstein-related records and President Trump signed that law, but the resulting tranche showed a mix of r...
A discrete, high‑profile federal prosecution in Minnesota produced local reporting that labeled defendant Michael Lazzaro “Minnesota’s Jeffrey Epstein” after his conviction on sex‑trafficking and rela...
The Justice Department has begun releasing portions of the so‑called “Epstein files” — tens of thousands of pages and media from its investigations — but what’s public so far is a small, uneven slice ...
A small set of independent publishers and archives—most prominently Courier (via a Google Pinpoint collection) and Zeteo—published searchable copies or retained material from Justice Department releas...
The apparent contradiction — thousands of officials said to be redacting Epstein files while reporters and the public were told there were “no documents,” followed by headlines about a sudden appearan...
Democracy Forward has repeatedly sued and sought expedited FOIA processing to force the Justice Department and FBI to produce records about the so‑called “Epstein Files,” but the organization’s public...
Forgeries and unverified documents circulating around the Justice Department’s partial release of the “Epstein files” have sown confusion, amplified conspiracy narratives, and undermined survivors’ tr...
Republicans offered a fractured, tactical response to Democratic demands to release the so‑called Epstein files: party leaders largely defended the administration’s handling, advanced symbolic or weak...
Reporting on the newly released Epstein files has produced at least one high‑profile legal challenge to a news outlet — former President Donald Trump sued the Wall Street Journal over a purported “baw...
Legal and privacy considerations were repeatedly cited by the Justice Department as reasons to withhold or redact large swaths of the Jeffrey Epstein files when they were released, including explicit ...