Attorneys for alleged victims of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein -- citing an “unfolding emergency” -- are urging two federal judges in New York to order the immediate takedown of the Justice Department’s Epstein files website.The lawyers are contending widespread failures by the DOJ to redact names and identifying information of Epstein’s victims, according to a copy of a letter obtained Sunday by ABC News.“For the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, every hour matters.The harm is ongoing and irreversible,” attorneys Brittany Henderson and Brad Edwards wrote in the letter addressed to U.S.
District Judges Richard Berman and Paul Engelmayer.After Epstein's death, investigation weighed potential charges against co-conspiratorsThe attorneys write that since the DOJ started posting material to the website last month, they have been in near-constant communication with the department to correct redaction errors and that they had an expectation “such failures would not recur.”“That expectation was shattered on January 30, 2026, when DOJ committed what may be the single most egregious violation of victim privacy in one day in United States history,” the letter states.Documents that were included in the U.S.Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files are photographed Friday, Jan.
2, 2026.Jon Elswick/APThe lawyers -- who represent more than 200 alleged Epstein victims -- say that over the last 48 hours they have reported “thousands of redaction failures on behalf of nearly 100 individual survivors whose lives have been turned upside down by the DOJ’s latest release,” according to the letter.They cite examples of FBI documents with full names left unredacted, including those of victims who were minors at the time of their exploitation. Other victims, the letter says, have had their names, bank information, and addresses posted without redaction. One email listing 32 minor victims had just one of the names redacted, the letter says.The...