Jan. 30 (UPI) — The Department of Justice published 3 million more pages of files from the Jeffrey Epstein case on Friday, raising the total published to 3.5 million to comply with federal law.
The upload marks the final batch of files needed to be made publicly available to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act of 2025, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told media.
The files uploaded to the Epstein Library on Friday include 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, according to the Justice Department.
Department officials searched through more than 6 million records while undertaking “multiple layers of review and quality control” before making them available, Blanche said.
The Justice Department earlier reported more than 500 attorneys were reviewing the files to ensure they are properly redacted to protect Epstein’s victims and to block child abuse information before making them publicly available.
Blanche said women were redacted from all videos and photos that were uploaded, while no men were redacted from them — unless doing so protected the privacy of women shown in them.
Only members of Congress can view the unredacted files, according to the Justice Department.
White House officials were not involved in reviewing the files and did not have oversight over the process, Blanche added.
“Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President [Donald] Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election,” department officials said.
“The claims are unfounded and false, and if they have a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already,” they added.
Justice Department officials said the files “were collected from five primary sources, including the Florida and New York cases against Epstein, the New York case against [Ghislaine] Maxwell, the New York cases investigating Epstein’s death, the Florida case investigating a former butler of Epstein, multiple FBI investigations and the Office of Inspector General investigation into Epstein’s death.”
Friday’s final upload of the Epstein files occurred five weeks after the Epstein Files Transparency Act required all files to be made publicly available no later than Dec. 19.
Department officials earlier said the millions of pages of files made that deadline impossible to meet but continued uploading them when they were readied in accordance with the federal law.
Epstein was a convicted sex offender and a financier who died while jailed in New York City and awaiting federal trial on child sex trafficking and related charges in 2019.
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