The Justice Department plans to release “several hundred thousand” pages of records Friday related to the case of notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — with more material to follow in the coming days, a top official revealed.
“We’re going to release several hundred thousand documents today, and those documents will come in all different forms, photographs and other materials associated with all of the investigations into, into Mr. Epstein,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told “Fox & Friends.”
“Now, the most important thing that the attorney general [Pam Bondi] has talked about, that [FBI] Director [Kash] Patel has talked about is that we protect victims,” Blanche added. “And so what we’re doing is, we are looking at every single piece of paper that we are going to produce, making sure that every victim — their name, their identity, their story, to the extent these are protected — is completely protected.
“And so I expect that we’re going to release more documents over the next couple of weeks. So today, several hundred thousand. And then over the next couple weeks, I expect several hundred thousand more.”
Friday marks 30 days since President Trump signed a bipartisan law requiring the DOJ to turn over all “unclassified records, documents, communications and investigative materials” — as well as all classified information to the maximum extent possible — within that time frame concerning Epstein, who died in his Manhattan jail cell Aug. 10, 2019, while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
Since the law was enacted, federal judges have signed off on unsealing grand jury transcripts from the federal investigation into Epstein as well as his girlfriend and accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after being found guilty in December 2021 of sex trafficking conspiracy and other charges.
Judges have also approved releasing grand jury information about a Florida investigation into child sex offenses by Epstein, which led to him taking a sweetheart plea deal in 2008 — under which he served just 13 months in prison, spending much of that time on work release.
Friday’s release will follow the Nov. 12 disclosure of 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate obtained by the House Oversight Committee. Democrats on the panel have also released dozens of photographs featuring Epstein with some of his famous and powerful friends — including film director Woody Allen; Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, Duke of York; Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates; political theorist Noam Chomsky; and former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon.
Public interest in the Epstein case intensified after the FBI and DOJ released a joint memo July 6 concluding that Epstein committed suicide in jail and did not keep a “client list” of rich and powerful men to whom he trafficked girls as young as 14 — contrary to widespread speculation.
On Friday, Blanche did not rule out the possibility that additional charges would stem from the release of the files, saying: “As the president directed, it’s still being investigated, and I expect that will continue to happen.”
“As of today, there’s no new charges coming, but we are investigating.”
