The Department of Justice (DOJ) is releasing 3 million pages, 180,000 images, and 2,000 videos related to the late convicted sex offender and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Friday.
The department was working to issue redactions to protect the names of victims and witnesses, officials have previously said. The disclosure of the files was mandated after Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law in November.
“We complied with the statute,” Blanche said during a news conference, adding that the DOJ did not work to protect anyone for political reasons.
The deputy attorney general also sought to dispel speculation online that the DOJ is secretly holding onto a collection of unpublished files and that there is no “tranche of super-secret documents about Jeffrey Epstein that we’re withholding.”…
DOJ Releasing 3 Million Pages, Hundreds of Thousands of Photos of Epstein Files: Deputy AG
