Trump's Justice Department releases massive cache of Jeffrey Epstein files

The U.S. Justice Department on Friday published a new cache of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Trump administration's latest effort to comply with a law passed in November that required the department to release all Epstein-related records by December 19, 2025.



Reuters is in the process of reviewing the files.



The department had said at year's end that it still had more than five million pages to review and needed to re-assign hundreds of lawyers to do so, drawing criticism from some members of Congress that the administration's slow pace had violated the law.



President Donald Trump, who was friends with Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s before they had a falling out years before Epstein's first conviction, had spent months resisting any release until both Democrats and Republicans in Congress advanced the law over his objections.