WASHINGTON: The US Division of Justice (DOJ) mentioned on Monday (Jan 5) it’s nonetheless reviewing greater than two million paperwork probably associated to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein because it pushed greater than two weeks previous a deadline to launch all information related to him.
The division started releasing paperwork from the decades-long investigation into the late disgraced financier final month, however failed to satisfy the Dec 19 deadline mandated beneath the Epstein Recordsdata Transparency Act.
In a letter Monday to a federal choose, DOJ officers mentioned greater than two million paperwork remained “in varied phases of evaluate”.
About 12,285 paperwork comprising greater than 125,000 pages, the letter mentioned, had already been publicly launched in response to the legislation – lower than 1 per cent of the tranche at the moment in evaluate.
The DOJ mentioned it recognized on Dec 24 a couple of million information not included in its preliminary evaluate.
A few of these paperwork gave the impression to be duplicates however would nonetheless want “processing and deduplication”, the letter famous.
“Substantial work stays to be completed,” mentioned the letter, signed by Lawyer Common Pam Bondi and others concerned.
Greater than 400 DOJ attorneys will spend “the following few weeks” reviewing the paperwork, the officers mentioned.
