A new investigation by U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 News, citing internal Department of Justice emails, suggests that only a small fraction of the data seized from Jeffrey Epstein’s properties has been made public.
According to the report, internal communications reference between 14 and 50 terabytes of archived material collected by federal investigators from Epstein’s Florida mansion, New York townhouse, and private island. By comparison, the Justice Department’s most recent public release — approximately 3.5 million documents — amounts to approximately 300 gigabytes of data.
Channel 4 reported that this figure represents roughly 2% of the total volume of records that officials were reviewing as recently as last year.
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However, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a letter to Congress Saturday that the department has fulfilled its legal obligations under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
“In accordance with the requirements of the Act, and as described in various Department submissions to the courts of the Southern District of New York assigned to the Epstein and [Ghislaine] Maxwell prosecutions and related orders, the Department released all ‘records, documents, communications and investigative materials in the possession of the Department’ that ‘relate to’ [Epstein],” it states. (RELATED: Emails Reveal Rep. Plaskett Asked Epstein To Fund Voter Project To ‘Outperform Anyone’)
Under the law, DOJ was required to disclose all unclassified Epstein-related materials in its possession by Dec. 19, 2025.
As Mediaite reports:
The Epstein Files Transparency Act mandated the disclosure of millions of documents tied to the convicted sex offender — and required department lawyers to review all files for material relating to Epstein and his network.
“They claimed that 6 million pages were identified, including duplicates — they released over 3 million,” the broadcaster’s U.S. editor, Asnushka Asthana, said. “Both those numbers are tiny compared to the amount collected according to today’s emails.”
“Many files are too large to open… There are many files that are completely invisible to us,” one email read.
Another investigator wrote: “Imagine if we had seized the papers from approximately 100,000 filing cabinets. Then that all just got dumped in one big pile. Documents that had multiple parts stapled together got separated. And then any of those documents that was larger than 100 pages couldn’t be opened. That’s what we’ve got.”
The document releases have drawn criticism from some lawmakers and transparency advocates, who argue the disclosures are incomplete, heavily redacted, or difficult to access. Members of both parties have questioned the pace and scope of the process and have called for broader access to unredacted materials. (RELATED: Mace Demands Bondi Testify Over Monitoring Of Epstein Searches)
Bondi has maintained that the department complied with the statute and that all redactions were made in accordance with legal requirements and privacy protections.
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