President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Christmas Eve that it had become aware of "over a million more documents potentially related to the Jeffrey Epstein case."
In a Wednesday post to X, the DOJ stated that it was just recently made aware of the documents by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and the FBI. the Justice Department further stated that the documents would eventually be made available to the public "in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, existing statutes and judicial orders."
"We have lawyers working around the clock to review and make the legally required redactions to protect victims, and we will release the documents as soon as possible," the DOJ's post read. "Due to the mass volume of material, this process may take a few more weeks. The Department will continue to fully comply with federal law and President Trump’s direction to release the files."
The existence of potentially a million more documents far exceeds previous estimates of the Epstein files. The New York Times reported earlier this year that the DOJ was sitting on roughly 100,000 pages of documents relating to the convicted child predator's two federal investigations.
Currently, the DOJ is already outside the 30-day statutory deadline imposed by the Epstein Files Transparency Act — which Trump signed into law on November 19 — meaning the Trump administration is actively violating the law that compelled the agency to release all remaining Epstein-related documents. The DOJ has not yet announced when it plans to have all remaining documents made available to the public.
DOJ officials this week issued a call for volunteers to come into the office over the Christmas and New Year's holidays to redact Epstein documents in preparation for their release. The Epstein Files Transparency Act gave Attorney General Pam Bondi final discretion to make redactions in order to protect the names and identifying information of Epstein's victims, and to safeguard ongoing investigations. However, some of the documents have been found to have redacted names of Epstein's co-conspirators — while inadvertently leaving some victims' names exposed.
