The Justice Department is buried in about 5.2 million pages of documents potentially related to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein – and it might take until late January to complete the review.
The latest figure, reported by the New York Times on Tuesday, indicates the task before the DOJ is even more daunting than the department signaled it would be last week, when it revealed “over a million” pages of possible Epstein files material had been uncovered by the Manhattan US attorney’s office.
To comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which established a Dec. 19 deadline for the Trump administration to release files, the DOJ is seeking to rope in 400 lawyers to help review the outstanding material, according to the outlet.
The battalion-sized review team includes prosecutors who work on national security and criminal cases, and in US attorneys’ offices in New York and Florida.
The document review is not expected to be completed until at least Jan. 20, according to the report.
The DOJ asserted last week that it will “fully comply” with the disclosure law and has attorneys “working around the clock to review and make the legally required redactions to protect victims.”
To date, the department has released about 100,000 pages of records related to disgraced financier.
The authors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), told The Post last week that they are considering legislation that would fine Attorney General Pam Bondi $5,000 per day in protest of withheld documents, including the heavy redactions to already released files.
The files released thus far have included several embarrassing photographs of former President Bill Clinton with Epstein and his convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and a 2020 email from a Manhattan federal prosecutor indicating that Trump traveled on the notorious pedophile’s private jet at least eight times during the mid-1990s.
There is no evidence that Trump was aware of Epstein’s sex crimes during their friendship or that the president committed any wrongdoing.
