Department of Justice Accountability

In a court letter signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy AG Todd Blanche and SDNY U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, DOJ said "hundreds" of employees are manually reviewing millions of pages, audio and video to redact victim‑identifying information and expects to publish "substantially all" Epstein‑related records "in the near term" but would not give a concrete completion date, even though it missed the Epstein Files Transparency Act’s Dec. 19 deadline. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer also denied Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie’s bid to intervene in the closed Ghislaine Maxwell case to appoint a monitor — saying they lack standing and must pursue a separate lawsuit or congressional oversight — while DOJ has so far released about 12,285 documents (125,575 pages) out of more than 2 million potentially responsive records (less than 1%).