The Justice Department on Friday released 3 million more pages of documents from its Jeffrey Epstein files, and thousands of videos and images, as the Trump administration sought to bring an end to the accusations and speculation swirling around the case.

The documents posted online are the largest batch of Epstein files released by the department to date, and arrived weeks after a Dec. 19 deadline imposed by Congress. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the release also included 2,000 videos and some 180,000 images.

At a news conference, Blanche signaled the documents would be the last major release of government files about Epstein, but he acknowledged that even that many documents were unlikely to satisfy the public demand for information about Epstein.

The law that required the Justice Department to make virtually all its Epstein investigative files public also required it to explain why it redacted any information. Blanche, the Justice Department’s No. 2 official, said that federal officials would submit its report to Congress “in due course.”

The files include a significant number of uncorroborated tips to law enforcement, the kind of material that was also included in earlier releases. The FBI receives a huge volume of tips, and the internal documents describing those tips generally do not offer indications of the credibility of a particular claim or person. In at least one instance, the review of Epstein documents prompted investigators to try to run down the tip to see if there was any merit to it.

Blanche rattled off a number of reasons that the Justice Department withheld documents, saying that the department was permitted to do so under the law passed by Congress last year. The reasons included files with personal identifying information or medical information of Epstein’s victims, material depicting child sexual abuse and material that depicted death or violence. Though the law allowed the government to withhold Epstein documents that contained classified information, he said there were no such documents and so none were withheld for that reason.

The White House “had nothing to do with this review,” Blanche said. “They had no oversight and they did not tell this department how to do our review and what to look for and what to redact or not redact,” he said.

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This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

By Devlin Barrett, Michael Gold and Alan Feuer/Pete Marovich
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