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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed it had 5.2 million pages of Epstein files remaining to review and needed 400 lawyers from four different departments to help with the process through the end of January, according to a government document reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday.
This will likely extend the final release of the documents much later than expected, past the Dec. 19 deadline set by Congress, the document says.
The White House and Justice Department did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.
The Trump administration has ordered the Justice Department to release records related to criminal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted sex offender who was friends with U.S. President Donald Trump in the 1990s, in accordance with a transparency law passed by Congress last month.
Collectively, the Criminal Division, the National Security Division, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan will provide 400 attorneys to review the cases, the document says, a more precise and potentially much larger figure than the department’s previous estimates.
The exam will be held in January, the document added.
Department heads are offering teleworking options and time off to incentivize volunteers, the document said, adding that helping attorneys should spend three to five hours a day reviewing about 1,000 documents a day.
The DOJ said last week it had uncovered more than 1 million additional documents potentially linked to Epstein.
So far, the revelations have been largely redacted, which has frustrated some Republicans and done little to quell a scandal that threatens the party as the 2026 midterm elections approach.
The law, approved by Congress with broad bipartisan support, requires all records related to Epstein to be made public, despite Trump’s months-long effort to keep them secret. By law, all documents had to be made public by December 19, with redactions to protect victims.
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Trump knew Epstein socially in the 1990s and early 2000s. He has said their association ended in the mid-2000s and that he never knew of the financier’s sexual abuse.
Epstein was convicted in Florida in 2008 of recruiting a person under the age of 18 for prostitution. The Justice Department charged him with sex trafficking in 2019. Epstein was found dead in 2019 in a New York prison and his death was ruled a suicide.
In a post shared on Due to the massive volume of documents, this process may take a few additional weeks.
