The Justice Department announced Wednesday that officials have “discovered “Over a million more documents potentially related to the Jeffrey Epstein case.”
“The DOJ has received these documents from [Southern District of New York] and the FBI to review them for release, consistent with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, existing statutes, and court orders,” the department said. published in X.
“We have attorneys working around the clock to review and make legally required redactions to protect victims, and we will release the documents as soon as possible. Due to the large volume of material, this process may take a few more weeks,” the post reads.
ABC News previously reported that the Justice Department is in possession of more than one million documents related to Epstein, a convicted sex offender who committed suicide in 2019 in his cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia, ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, issued a statement on Wednesday criticizing the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files.
“It is outrageous that the Department of Justice has illegally withheld more than a million documents from the public,” Garcia said.
“Every day we see lies, incompetence, missed deadlines and illegal redactions. Pam Bondi needs to testify before Congress under oath to explain herself,” Garcia added. “Supervisory Democrats also want to hear from whistleblowers or anyone in the Justice Department who can help us get justice for survivors. You are protected by the law.”
This photo illustration taken in Washington on Dec. 19, 2025, shows documents redacted after the U.S. Department of Justice began releasing long-awaited records.
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Congress passed the Epstein Records Transparency Act in November, requiring the disclosure of the Justice Department’s files on Epstein. The measure required the department to release all documents, with certain exceptions such as protecting victims’ privacy and ongoing investigations, by Friday, Dec. 19, although the department said it was delayed by the vetting process to protect victims.
As of Tuesday morning, the Justice Department had released more than 30,000 pages of documents, including more than 15,000 individual downloadable files. Thousands of photographs were also made public for the first time.
In addition to accusing the administration of being too slow to release the material, critics have said the administration has been too aggressive in its redaction, blacking out the names of government officials to make it difficult, if not impossible, to determine who said what in internal and external correspondence.
The Justice Department also withheld the names of potential co-conspirators who were identified by prosecutors in internal emails shortly after Epstein’s 2019 arrest.
The administration has also come under fire for mistakenly allowing victims’ names to remain visible in some of the documents it has published.
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, who co-authored the Epstein Records Transparency Act with Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, said they will “continue to keep up the pressure.”
“After we said we were filing contempt, the Justice Department is now finding millions more documents to release. They need to release all 302 FBI statements. & the emails on Epstein’s computer. The Epstein class must go,” Khanna said. wrote the X of Wednesday.
