The United States Department of Justice He said Monday that he continues to review more than two million documents potentially related to the sex offender. Jeffrey Epstein.
Last month, the department began releasing documents from the decades-long investigation into Epstein, a wealthy financier who died in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking of minors.
In a letter sent Monday to a federal judge, the Justice Department indicated that more than two million documents remain “in various phases of review.”
According to the letter, so far they have been published, in compliance with the law, some 12,285 documents totaling more than 125,000 pages but which represent less than 1% of the total currently under review.
Additionally, the Justice Department indicated that on December 24 it identified more than one million files that were not included in its initial review.
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Although some of these documents appear to be duplicates, they will need to be subject to “processing and deduplication,” the letter states.
“There remains substantial work to be done,” says the letter, signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi and other officials, who also announced that more than 400 lawyers from the Department of Justice will spend “the next few weeks” reviewing the documents.
At least one hundred employees of the FBI trained in the treatment of “sensitive information of victims” will collaborate in the process.
The American president Donald Trump faces strong criticism from the Democratic Party for not having released all files related to Epstein in time.
The Trump administration has defended its handling of the documents, pointing out the need to protect sensitive information about victims.
In Monday’s letter, those responsible for the Department of Justice indicated that they must review the documents “manually” to detect “identifying information about the victims.”