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The law compelling the release of Epstein files, including exceptions for redactions.
The Justice Department has missed the congressionally mandated deadline to release the bulk of its Jeffrey Epstein files, telling a judge and the public that a slow, rolling disclosure is necessary be...
The Justice Department’s recent public release of the so‑called “Epstein files” contains extensive redactions: victim names and identifying details, names and passages that appear to refer to alleged ...
The Department of Justice has been uploading multiple tranches of “Epstein Library” material to its website beginning in mid‑December 2025 under the statutory deadline created by the Epstein Files Tra...
The Biden White House did not unilaterally release the Jeffrey Epstein case files; instead the Department of Justice handled requests and disclosures, providing some materials to Congress after subpoe...
The principal repositories of Jeffrey Epstein‑related material in 2025 were federal: the U.S. Department of Justice (including the FBI and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices such as the Southern District of New ...
The FBI’s July 2019 internal emails referenced “10 co‑conspirators” linked to Jeffrey Epstein, but the released files are heavily redacted and do not provide a public, complete list of those ten names...
Redaction errors and recoverable blacked-out text in the Department of Justice’s releases of Epstein-related files have both exposed protected details and eroded trust in how sensitive records are han...
The "Epstein files" is the informal label for the trove of investigative, court and other government documents collected in federal and related probes of Jeffrey Epstein, now being produced to the pub...
The Justice Department has released tranches of Jeffrey Epstein-related material but still holds back a large volume of documents and heavily redacts many pages — including what appear to be case file...
The Department of Justice warned that some of the newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents include “untrue and sensationalist claims” about President Donald Trump and said the FBI has identified at le...
A patchwork of official records, sealed and unsealed indictments, and a rolling public release of DOJ materials now constitute the known federal documentary record about Jeffrey Epstein and a ring of ...
The Epstein Files Transparency Act mandates the public release of unclassified Justice Department materials connected to Jeffrey Epstein while explicitly carving out narrow categories that may be reda...
Available reporting does not show any congressional office — including Senator Ron Wyden’s or Rep. Ro Khanna’s — publicly acknowledging that it has received or is acting on evidentiary material from p...
The Justice Department’s phased releases of Jeffrey Epstein-related materials in late 2025 and early 2026 contain multiple references to Donald Trump across court documents, emails and flight records ...
The Epstein Files Transparency Act required the Attorney General to make publicly available, in a searchable and downloadable format, all unclassified Department of Justice records, documents, communi...
The Epstein Files Transparency Act requires the Department of Justice to publish all unclassified Epstein-related records with only narrowly permitted redactions—chiefly to protect victims and active ...
Law enforcement agencies—principally the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI—have publicly walked a tightrope between asserting transparency by releasing Epstein-related records and warning the pub...
The Justice Department has defended its redactions in the staggered release of Jeffrey Epstein materials as legally necessary to protect victim identities, to avoid jeopardizing ongoing investigations...
Some redactions in the Department of Justice’s released “Epstein files” were indeed technically easy to defeat—researchers and reporters showed that at least some blacked‑out text could be recovered b...
did not fully publish the government’s during his first presidential term largely because of a mix of legal caution, bureaucratic and logistical constraints, and political calculation — not because of...