The Department of Justice has said that there are over one million files related to Epstein that they are actively working to make public in the coming weeks.
The DOJ said on Christmas Eve: ‘The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI have informed the Department of Justice that they have uncovered over a million more documents potentially related to the Jeffrey Epstein case.
‘The DOJ has received these documents from SDNY and the FBI to review them for release, in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, existing statutes, and judicial orders.
‘We have lawyers working around the clock to review and make the legally required redactions to protect victims, and we will release the documents as soon as possible.
‘Due to the mass volume of material, this process may take a few more weeks.
‘The Department will continue to fully comply with federal law and President Trump’s direction to release the files.’
The statement comes amid reports that Donald Trump’s White House has taken control of the Department of Justice’s X account in an effort to more aggressively combat the narrative surrounding the Epstein files release.
The move became apparent this week as the Department of Justice came out swinging on social media to counter online speculation about Trump and unproven allegations made in the latest Epstein files release.
This included claiming that a prison postcard allegedly written by Epstein to former US Olympic doctor Larry Nassar was faked, after the letter read that ‘our president’ loves ‘young, nubile girls.’
Jeffrey Epstein is pictured with an unnamed girl. The image was released by the DOJ
Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice has been responsible for releasing the files
On Tuesday, the Justice Department released a major new batch of Epstein-related records—over 11,000 files totaling nearly 30,000 pages of photos, court records, FBI and DOJ documents, emails, news clippings, and videos.
Congressman Ro Khanna, a California Democrat who co-led the congressional push to release the Epstein files, called Tuesday’s batch ‘a bombshell.’
He noted the files revealed Trump flew on Epstein’s plane at least eight times between 1993-1996—’many more times’ than a federal prosecutor previously knew, according to a 2020 email.
Khanna accused the DOJ of ‘spending more time protecting the Epstein class than the survivors, whose names are required by law to be redacted.’
Republican Thomas Massie, who partnered with Khanna on the Congressional discharge petition to release the files, asked Wednesday who was ‘controlling the DOJ X account on Christmas Eve and using words like “dope” to refer to reporters?’ in a post on X.
Meanwhile, former Obama-era national security advisor and Pod Save America co-host Tommy Vietor called Bondi’s Department of Justice ‘ridiculously incompetent.’
Legal and transparency experts caution that the documents, while significant, should be interpreted with care: many are duplicates, heavily redacted, or contain allegations or inferences rather than proven facts.
The latest batch of Epstein files included a document that alleged Donald Trump flew on Epstein’s plane at least eight times between 1993-1996—’many more times’ than a federal prosecutor previously knew. Trump has not been officially accused of wrongdoing
Following the latest Epstein files release, the Trump administration was accused of ‘protecting’ Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators as one of the newly released documents suggests at least 10 others were involved in his child sex trafficking ring.
The damning evidence of Epstein’s accomplices came to light in an email that was sent between federal investigators trying to contact around 10 ‘co-conspirators’ after the late pedophile’s arrest in 2019.
The email, which was shared online by Miami Herald reporter Julie K Brown, was sent just one day after federal agents arrested Epstein on sex trafficking charges and raided his Manhattan home.
All of the names included in the email were redacted except for three. The first two were Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of sex trafficking and other charges in 2021; and Jean-Luc Brunel, a former French modeling agent who was found dead in his Paris jail cell in 2022 and was suspected of scouting girls for Epstein.
The third was retail magnate Leslie Wexner, who was a major benefactor for Epstein until he severed ties with the financier in 2007 amid his indictment in Florida.
But lawyers for the former Victoria Secret CEO told BBC News that ‘the assistant US attorney in charge of the Epstein investigation stated at the time that Mr. Wexner was neither a co-conspirator nor target.
‘Mr. Wexner cooperated fully by providing background information on Epstein and was never contacted again,’ the attorneys claimed.
Damning files released by the Department of Justice on Tuesday suggest Jeffrey Epstein had at least 10 co-conspirators in his child sex trafficking ring, among them Ghislaine Maxwell
In an email from July 2019, an unidentified sender with a signature that included ‘FBI New York,’ asked a colleague for ‘an update on the status of the 10 co-conspirators’
In the first email, an unidentified sender with a signature that included ‘FBI New York,’ asked a colleague: ‘When you get a chance can you give me an update on the status of the 10 co-conspirators?’
In a reply several hours later, a recipient gave a rundown of efforts to contact Wexner, Maxwell and others.
It noted that they located three alleged co-conspirators in Florida, one in Boston, one in New York and one in Connecticut.
The documents do not detail the information federal investigators sought from these individuals nor the basis for characterizing them as potential co-conspirators.
But by September 2019, prosecutors exchanging updates noted that the investigation into Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators was ‘ongoing’ and that they had conversations with several people who they said would cooperate in the investigation, ABC News reports.
Prosecutors later detailed a seven-page ‘memo on co-conspirators we could potentially charge,’ as well as an 86-page ‘co-conspirator update memo’.
The following year, Maxwell would be arrested by the FBI and charged by the Southern District of New York with conspiring to entice minors to engage in illegal sex acts, sex trafficking of a minor and other offenses.
She remains the only co-conspirator who has ever been charged in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring, and in September of this year, FBI Director Kash Patel insisted that no other cases could be made and that Epstein worked alone.
Now, Democrats are urging the Trump administration to release the names of all of the other alleged co-conspirators whose names were redacted from the files.
