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The U.S. Justice Department has recovered much than a cardinal more documents perchance tied to convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, delaying a afloat merchandise for weeks portion officials redact details to support victims, DOJ said connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025).
President Donald Trump's medication began releasing files related to transgression investigations of Epstein, the precocious American financier who was friends with Mr. Trump successful the 1990s, to comply with a instrumentality passed by Congress past month.
Republicans and Democrats successful Congress passed the instrumentality implicit Mr. Trump's objections, requiring that all documents beryllium released by December 19 portion allowing partial redactions to support victims.
Releases truthful acold person contained extended redactions, angering some Republicans and doing small to defuse a ungraded threatening the enactment up of the 2026 midterm elections.
In a connection shared connected societal media connected Wednesday, the Justice Department said much than a cardinal further documents perchance related to Epstein had been uncovered by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's bureau successful Manhattan, without elaborating connected erstwhile oregon however the documents were found.
"We person lawyers moving astir the timepiece to reappraisal and make the legally required redactions to support victims, and we volition merchandise the documents arsenic soon arsenic possible," the section said. "Due to the wide measurement of material, this process whitethorn instrumentality a fewer much weeks."
