Epstein files: 2 million records in various stages of review, DOJ says

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

January 6, 2026, 2:24 AM


The Department of Justice said in a new court filing Monday night that there are more than 2 million documents “potentially responsive” to the Epstein Files Transparency Act that are presently in various phases of review.

Federal prosecutors said that “in the next few weeks ahead” about 400 department attorneys in Washington, D.C., New York and Florida “will dedicate all or a substantial portion of their workday to the Department’s efforts to comply with the Act.”

The effort will tap DOJ lawyers from the Criminal and National Security Divisions and will also include assistance from more than 100 FBI analysts experienced with handling sensitive victim materials, according to the letter from Jay Clayton, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer.
DOJ seeks to enlist 400 attorneys to review more than 5M pages of Epstein records: Sources

“Many of the attorneys dedicated to this review from the Department have experience in victim-privacy related matters, which is necessary given the nature of the materials and the types of documents that require careful redaction,” Clayton wrote. “While the commitment of Department personnel to this effort has been substantial in breadth and impressive in effort, substantial work remains to be done.”

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/epstein-files-2-million-records-stages-review-doj/story?id=128935822

[sop]

1. In various stages of redaction...

[BumRushDaShow]

2. My first reaction was

"in various states of 'undress'".

[orangecrush]

3. "Various phases of review"

[RazorbackExpat]

4. "They're on my desk"

Pam "Alligator Barbie" Bondi

[peppertree]

12. a.k.a. Pam Bunny

[hadEnuf]

5. Take your time, Nazi Barbie.

We know it's all going to be bullshit anyway.

Leaks will be the only thing believable coming out of this rat's nest in Washington.

[Roy Rolling]

6. Admission of Guilt

Prosecute the MAGA DOJ. By announcing they still are withholding Epstein records beyond the December 19 deadline defies the law passed by Congress.

When someone publicly admits to a crime, but the people paid to enforce that law (Congress) are the equivalent of unhealthy donut-eaters, we have “Walking Tall” with morons.

Prosecute DOJ lawbreakers. It’ll stop as soon as someone from the MAGA administration is behind bars until all “5 million records” are released—whatever the fuck that means. It’s all or none—nobody else gets to defy the law with impunity, especially the law enforcement arm of the federal government.

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8. The Epstein Transparency Act isn't a criminal statute

Not every law creates a crime. Not every violation of a law is subject to criminal penalties. A court can order the enforcement of the law and refusal or failure to comply with a court order can lead to criminal contempt, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

[Botany]

7. 12/19/25 ... Wasn't that the court ordered date to release all the Epstein files?

[RANDYWILDMAN]

9. Bondi lied. Patel lied, prosecute and lock them up

please with a little Trump lockup on the side

[peppertree]

13. Well - you know Kashyap

He loves cash...and yapping.

[OldBaldy1701E]

10. I am sorry, but the response to this is just too tepid.

Unsurprising... but tepid.

Again, if I had missed such a deadline, they would have already dragged my ass out of here and tossed me into a cell to await a hearing.

Not having the same thing happen is why I no longer have faith in our 'justice' system.

[Evolve Dammit]

11. So they are still "dicking" around with records that were court ordered to be released 3 weeks ago???

[snot]

14. A brief timeline re- the records & some math, for what it's worth:

Epstein was arrested in July, 2019. Speculate that the feds might have collected most of the files by the end of 2019, during Trump's first term; so his admin had them for about 1 year before Biden was inaugurated at the beginning of 2021.

The Biden admin had them for 4 more years.

Now the Trump admin has had them for 1 more year. So that's a total of 6 years.

Suppose you only spent 3 of those years actually redacting and preparing everything for publication, because you spent the other 3 years just preparing for and conducting the trials of Maxwell & Epstein. If my math is right, you'd basically have to process about 2,000 documents per day. I'd think you might be able to do that if you put 10 lawyers on it full time – each lawyer would have to process about 20 documents per hour (I expect some would go more quickly and others more slowly).

But I honestly don't believe that either admin wanted to release most of the files – I think that for various reasons, they hoped we'd forget about them and move on.

The problem seems to be that sex-related conspiracies sell even better than assassination or 9/11-related conspiracies. And I'm glad, because the Epstein case implicates not only crimes in the past but, so long as any dirt remains secret, potential crimes (blackmail) in the future.