US EditionNew year, new Epstein transparency law, and Trump is already breaking it
The DOJ missed the 30-day legal deadline and released only a small, heavily redacted portion of Epstein files while expanding document reviews to 5.2 million, sources said.
- On December 19, the DOJ missed the Epstein Files Transparency Act's 30-day deadline and said it expanded its review to 5.2 million documents with more attorneys.
- After the deadline passed, Justice Department leadership said more time was needed to comply, but critics say DOJ leaders have reinterpreted the act and left survivors and the public largely in the dark.
- The rollout faltered when the required word-search function initially failed, with searches for "Trump" and "Clinton" producing no results while critics said DOJ over-redacted victim-identifying information and names of ten individuals labeled 'co-conspirators'.
- Victims have denounced the December 19 release as incomplete, prompting Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie to seek a special master and pursue contempt measures against Pam Bondi, former Florida official.
- Questions center on the Southern District of Florida's handling of Epstein's 2007 case and who beyond Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell was involved, as the Transparency Act aims to reveal this and why Alex Acosta gave a state-level plea deal.
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Slow Epstein files release not as concerning as docs DOJ has withheld, says Ro Khanna
Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat representing California, says the Justice Department should’ve anticipated the challenge posed by the large volume of files related to the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The Justice Department missed a legal deadline two weeks ago to release the full trove of unclassified Epstein files. The incomplete release has drawn widespread criticism and bipartisan calls for action against the DOJ.Khann…
Trump DOJ's 'bush league' bungling of Epstein files is intentional: ex-prosecutor
Former Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor Elie Honig says the “first sign of trouble” that Trump’s DOJ was not serious about releasing the Epstein files was the way it blew off the due date mandated by Congress.“The Epstein Files Transparency Act … required that the DoJ ‘shall’ (not ‘may’) produce ‘all’ (not ‘some’) documents within 30 days of the law’s November 19 enactment. Yet when the December 19 deadline hit, Justice Department leadersh…
New year, new Epstein transparency law, and Trump is already breaking it
Many of us have spent the last two weeks largely checked out and concentrating on happier things than the intimate details of Jeffrey Epstein’s private life. Sadly, that’s all about to change. Come Monday, it’s going to be all Epstein all the time. That’s because the Department of Justice has made a complete hash of…
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