The Justice Department quietly filed a motion in federal court Friday to block a new effort to compel the agency to release its trove of files on Jeffrey Epstein – as it’s required to by law – in a move that sparked fierce backlash among critics.“Oh my god,” wrote Brett Meiselas, cofounder of Meidas...
  • blueworld@piefed.worldEnglish
    321·
    3 hours ago

    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., U.S., December 19, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

    The Justice Department quietly filed a motion in federal court Friday to block a new effort to compel the agency to release its trove of files on Jeffrey Epstein – as it’s required to by law – in a move that sparked fierce backlash among critics.

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    Signed into law last November, the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA) required the DOJ to release every file in its possession on Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell by Dec. 19, and with redactions limited to those protecting minors or victims. Instead, the DOJ released only a small fraction of its files on Epstein by the deadline, and with redactions beyond what the law permitted.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Is this the same Jeffery Epstein, Trump’s closest and most intimate friend? The same one who ran the child sex ring and was killed mysteriously in prison?

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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        1 hour ago

        Killed in prison while Trump was president, after Epstein had been telling people he was afraid for his life because of what Trump might do. But yeah, nothing to see there.