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this Ministry of Justice is seeking to hire up to 400 additional lawyers to help it comb through some 5.2 million pages of documents related to the deceased pedophile Jeffrey EpsteinAccording to reports.
Designated by the U.S. Department of Justice More than 200 lawyers In late November, they were tasked with reviewing the material and making changes to protect victims of sex offenders, protect national security and prevent ongoing investigations from being compromised.
However, new york times The department is now seeking more help as the task turns out to be much larger than initially anticipated and is attracting prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s offices in New York and Florida, as well as others who specialize in national security and criminal cases.
The New York Times, citing department sources, said the $5.2 million figure was the Justice Department’s largest estimate of Epstein-related holdings to date.
The current review of the documents is not expected to be completed until at least January 20, the newspaper reported.
In November, the House and Senate passed the Epstein Dossier Transparency Act nearly unanimously, forcing the President Donald Trump Signed into law, it starts a 30-day countdown for the Department of Justice to release all documents in its possession related to Epstein. Epstein committed suicide in his New York City jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial.
The December 19 deadline arrived as scheduled, and the Department of Justice A large number of files are provided for download through its website.
However, this version proved to be incomplete, heavily edited, and lacking context, drawing Representative’s complaintThomas Massey and Lo Carna, who led the call for the release of information, and Epstein’s victims.still seeking justice.
one Second large payment The document was uploaded on December 23, prompting parties to sort it out two days before Christmas, but the Justice Department later said it had “More than a million” files found It could take weeks to release them all in connection with the Epstein case.
“We have attorneys working around the clock to review and make legally required changes to protect victims, and we will release these documents as quickly as possible,” the department said. reassure the public in a Christmas Eve social media post.
“Due to the volume of material, this process may take several more weeks. The department will continue to fully comply with federal law and President Trump’s direction in releasing these documents.”
Materials released so far include never-before-seen photos of Epstein with ex-girlfriends and associates Ghislaine Maxwellphotos of famous public figures, e.g. bill clinton, Andrew Mountbatten-WindsorMichael Jackson and Sir Mick Jagger, as well as copies of the disgraced financier’s passports and internal documents FBI emails discussing various aspects of his case.
Mention in the document does not constitute an indication of wrongdoing.
Trump himself also appears in some of the photos and was mentioned in a January 2020 internal email from an unnamed assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, who wrote to colleagues noting that flight records obtained from Epstein’s private jet showed the president had been on the plane “A lot more than what was reported before.”
Trump has never been accused of any wrongdoing against Epstein. However, he has been under intense pressure since July to release the full documents and explain his past friendship with the predator, which he said ended with a fight in the early 2000s.
wall street journal Reports on Tuesday said a masseuse and beautician who worked at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, had Regular door-to-door visits About Epstein. The courtesy ended in 2003, when an employee complained that the billionaire proposed to her.
The president expressed frustration with the continued public attention on the case and complained that overshadowing his policy achievements and insisted in a Truth Society post on Christmas Day that he had cut ties with his abuser “Long before it became fashionable” The fight for justice is nothing more than a “radical left-wing witch hunt” orchestrated by his political opponents.
estranged republican congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene allegedly during an interview era Trump yelled at her on Monday, accusing her of supporting the release of the documents earlier this year and saying he opposed their release because “my friends would be hurt.”