The U.S. Department of Justice will reportedly release nearly 50,000 more files related to the case of late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein by the end of Friday (March 6), a department spokeswoman confirmed to the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday (March 3).
The spokeswoman said “47,635 files were offline for further review and should be ready for re-production by the end of the week.” The documents will reportedly include allegations of sexual abuse against Epstein, who was found dead in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial in August 2019, and President Donald Trump, who had a long friendship with the disgraced late financier in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Trump, whose relationship with Epstein reportedly ended around 2004 amid a property dispute, has publicly claimed that the files already released by his appointed Department of Justice exonerate him. The files set to be released on Friday will reportedly include summaries of three interviews a woman gave to FBI agents after Epstein’s July 2019 arrest, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The woman reportedly claimed to have been abused by Epstein as a minor during the mid-1980s but was found to be ineligible for the compensation that more than 130 other victims received. The Department of Justice previously released a recap of the woman’s allegations and a summary known as a “Form 302” stemming from a fourth interview in which she claims she was abused by Epstein in South Carolina.
The Justice Department is obligated to release all files related to the Epstein case in adherence with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was signed into law by Trump in November after some prior pushback, with redactions only supposed to be made to protect victims and ongoing investigations.
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