A group of alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein accused the Department of Justice of missteps, including violations of the law, in its partial release of files related to the disgraced financier's abuse of young women and girls. The DOJ faced a Friday deadline imposed by Congress to release a massive cache of records gathered during government investigations into the sex offender, who died in jail in 2019. Justice officials released thousands of files -- ranging from investigative documents to grand jury testimony to snapshots taken by Epstein and his friends -- but said it would fail to fully release all the files by the deadline."Instead, the public received a fraction of the files, and what we received was riddled with abnormal and extreme redactions with no explanation," a group of 19 women, including two Jane Does, said in a statement released on Monday."At the same time, numerous victim identities were left unredacted, causing real and immediate harm."Newly-released documents from disgraced late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including a sheaf of entirely redacted pages, are seen in this handouts released by the U.S.
Justice Department and printed and arranged for a photograph by Reuters in Washington, D.C., Dec.19, 2025.Jonathan Ernst/ReutersEpstein files released so far show little to support allegations of previously unknown accomplicesThe statement, which was released early Monday by attorneys representing the women, also pointed to what they said was missing from the files.
Omissions by either redactions or unreleased pages amounted to a failure, they said."No financial documents were released," the statement said."Grand jury minutes, though approved by a federal judge for release, were fully blacked out -- not the scattered redactions that might be expected to protect victim names, but 119 full pages blacked out.
We are told that there are hundreds of thousands of pages of documents still unreleased.""These are clear-cut violations of an ...