The US Department of Justice said it is processing over a million more documents related to the Epstein case

On December 24, the US Department of Justice said that it had received more than a million additional documents potentially related to the case of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from the US Attorneyʼs Office for the Southern District of New York and the FBI.

The department wrote about this on the social network X.

The Justice Department says it plans to release the new documents after reviewing and redacting them to protect victims, which could take several more weeks.

“Our lawyers are working around the clock to review the documents and make the necessary legal corrections, and we will publish the documents as soon as possible. Due to the sheer volume of materials, this process may take several more weeks,” the US Department of Justice said in a statement.

The delay in the full publication of the documents has drawn public criticism, as the statutory deadline for full disclosure expired on December 19. According to The Guardian, the US congressmen have announced possible hearings due to the failure to meet this deadline.

At the same time, the US Department of Justice claims that it is acting in accordance with the law and fulfilling President Donald Trumpʼs instructions to release the materials.

This week, the US Department of Justice released its third batch of “Epstein files”. They specifically mention Trump, who flew on Epstein’s private jet at least eight times. Two of those flights included women who could be witnesses in the Maxwell case.

The Justice Department also said that the documents contained "false and sensational" statements against President Trump that were filed with the FBI just before the 2020 election.

The Jeffrey Epstein case

American financier Jeffrey Epstein was first arrested in 2008. He was convicted of sex with minors and organizing prostitution. After 13 months in prison, the financier made a deal with prosecutors and was released. In 2019, he was charged with new charges of human trafficking.

At the time, it was reported that the FBI had discovered thousands of names of famous people in Epsteinʼs notebook, including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, “Rolling Stones” frontman Mick Jagger, and billionaire Richard Branson. This sparked a series of accusations and suspicions against famous people that they may have used Epsteinʼs services.

Epstein was arrested a second time on July 7, and on August 10, 2019, he committed suicide in prison. In December 2023, a US court ordered the release of the names of more than 170 people from Epsteinʼs inner circle.

Donald Trump has also been accused of having ties to Epstein. Trump and Epstein were allegedly friends and attended the same parties in the 1990s. However, Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against journalists who covered this information.

In November, it became known that dozens of references to Ukraine were found among Jeffrey Epsteinʼs documents. Among other things, the names of politician Oleksandr Vilkul and former President Leonid Kuchma appear there.

On December 18, American Democrats published five photos from the “Epstein files” — without any explanation. Among other things, they show American linguist and political journalist Noam Chomsky on a plane with Epstein, multibillionaire Bill Gates with an unknown woman, and the passport of an unknown Ukrainian woman.

The next day, the US Department of Justice released the first selection of the “Epstein files”. Among the tens of thousands of documents that were censored were many photos of famous people.

President Donald Trump is not in the photo. His image appears only among the photos Epstein kept in a drawer and in a frame on his desk: the men stand with Maxwell and Trumpʼs future wife Melania. Some Democrats criticized the release as too limited.

Less than a day after the publication, at least 16 files related to Epstein disappeared from the US Department of Justice website. Among them were photos with Trump. They were later returned. The US Department of Justice explained that after checking, they concluded that these files did not pose a threat of disclosure of confidential information about the victims.

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