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BumRushDaShow

(166,769 posts)
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 11:11 AM 6 hrs ago

Justice Department says it's releasing 3 million pages from its Jeffrey Epstein files

Source: AP

Updated 11:52 AM EST, January 30, 2026


NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday released many more records from its investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, resuming disclosures under a law intended to reveal what the government knew about the millionaire financier’s sexual abuse of young girls and his interactions with the rich and powerful.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department was releasing more than 3 million pages of documents in the latest Epstein disclosure, as well as more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. The files, posted to the department’s website, include some of the several million pages of records that officials said were withheld from an initial release of documents in December.

They were disclosed under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the law enacted after months of public and political pressure that requires the government to open its files on the late financier and his confidant and onetime girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.

“Today’s release marks the end of a very comprehensive document identification and review process to ensure transparency to the American people and compliance with the act,” Blanche said at a news conference announcing the disclosure.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/epstein-files-justice-department-trump-ed743598c320b94bd9d91631618678d9



Link to DOJ "Epstein Library" (for file search) - https://www.justice.gov/epstein

Article updated.

Original article/headline -

Justice Department releases many more records from its Jeffrey Epstein files

Updated 11:07 AM EST, January 30, 2026


NEW YORK (AP) -- The Justice Department on Friday released many more records from its investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, resuming disclosures under a law intended to reveal what the government knew about the millionaire financier's sexual abuse of young girls and his interactions with the rich and powerful.

The files, posted to the department's website, include some of the several million pages of records that officials said were withheld from an initial release of documents in December.

They were disclosed under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the law enacted after months of public and political pressure that requires the government to open its files on the late financier and his confidant and onetime girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.

After missing a Dec. 19 deadline set by Congress to release all of the files, the Justice Department said it tasked hundreds of lawyers with reviewing the records to determine what needs to be redacted, or blacked out, to protect the identities of victims of sexual abuse. The number of documents subject to review has ballooned to 5.2 million, including duplicates, the department said.
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Wicked Blue

(8,647 posts)
4. Everything can be used as a distraction from everything else
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 11:59 AM
5 hrs ago

It's the Shell Game --

1. A game, usually involving gambling, in which a person hides a small object underneath one of three nutshells, thimbles, or cups, then shuffles them about on a flat surface while spectators try to guess the final location of the object.

2. A fraud or deception perpetrated by shifting conspicuous things to hide something else.

From Wikipedia

FakeNoose

(40,532 posts)
5. I got some interesting bank transfer memos
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 12:29 PM
5 hrs ago

I did a search for "Little Saint James" and a bunch of listings come up. Also "Saint James" search works too, but you get "Greater" Saint James documents included.

There are many documents that aren't very interesting, but if it contains the word "Beneficiary" then it's a banking memo. Many good ones there. I don't know how to search for the most recent documents, I think they're all mixed together.

twodogsbarking

(17,799 posts)
6. That's a lot of files. They must have suspected wrongdoing long ago.
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 12:46 PM
5 hrs ago

Release the Trump files too.

Bayard

(28,904 posts)
7. Does this statement mean they've done all they're going to?
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 12:54 PM
4 hrs ago

"end of a very comprehensive document identification and review process"

I'm still astounded that it took an act of Congress to get this far.

BumRushDaShow

(166,769 posts)
9. In AP's initial article, the mentioned this -
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 01:13 PM
4 hrs ago
The number of documents subject to review has ballooned to 5.2 million, including duplicates, the department said.


So they are purportedly more than halfway through that.

What is sadly astounding however, is that when they do release stuff and it gets posted on DU after many many calls to "release the Epstein files", the threads get a yawn response.

tonekat

(2,471 posts)
8. Whatever they release will be like Nixon's Transcripts
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 01:10 PM
4 hrs ago

Totally scrubbed of any incriminating evidence about Republicans.

in2herbs

(4,327 posts)
11. Wait a sec. . . isn't the DOJ saying that even the USSC doesn't have jurisdiction to make them
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 02:00 PM
3 hrs ago

release any files? So, why are they releasing files?????

Martin68

(27,250 posts)
12. So they were using ICE brutality to divert attention from Epstein, but now they are using Epstein to divert attention
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 04:38 PM
1 hr ago

from cold-blooded murder recoded on video.

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