The law was clear: Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was required to disclose all investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein by 19 December 2025, with rare exceptions.
One month after this deadline mandated by Congress’s Epstein Files Transparency Act, however, Trump’s justice department has not complied with this law, prompting questions about when – and whether – authorities will ever release investigative documents about the late sex offender.
Justice department attorneys said in a 5 January Manhattan court filing that they had posted approximately 12,285 to DoJ’s website, equating to some 125,575 pages, under this legislation’s requirements. They said in this same letter that justice department staff had identified “more than 2 million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review”.
That these DoJ’s disclosures apparently comprise a drop in the bucket – and have done little to shed light on how Epstein operated with apparent impunity for years – has roiled survivors’ advocates and lawmakers. They include attorney Spencer Kuvin, who has represented dozens of Epstein’s survivors.
They note that the Department of Justice has also flouted another requirement of this act, which requires that the attorney general provide a report identifying “categories of records released and withheld and summarizing all redactions and their legal bases” within 15 days of their disclosure deadline.
“To date, no such report has been provided. Without it, there is no authoritative accounting of what records exist, what has been withheld, or why, making effective oversight and judicial review far more difficult,” they wrote. “Put simply, the DOJ cannot be trusted with making mandatory disclosures under the Act.”
Havent you guys figured out yet? that there is no longer the rule of law in your cesspit shithole if a country? There will be no consequences for this and no one in power cares.
That certainly seems to be the trend. Do you mind if I ask what country your from? I assume Australia by the @. Always wanted to visit there.
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Nice. Unfortunately for the USA, I believe we have more right wing morons than your country has a population as a whole. It is very hard to beat out our loud minority (magats etc). Unfortunately I believe our population has been far too complacent to billionaire interests for far too long and now we’re reaping what our fathers sowed. It’s tough. There is a lot of unrest. I live in one of the most liberal states in the country, where our president is threatening to pull federal funding for not bowing down to the supreme leader. But you bet your ass I can’t skip out on paying the fed taxes this year. We have people on the other side of the continent telling us who is and isn’t allowed in our communities. I fear we’re beyond redemption at this point, and we have a whole generation that will have to attone for our ancestors sins.