Trump administration admits to having released less than 1% of Epstein-related files

US Department of Justice says it has found over a million documents from the Epstein case The United States Department of Justice admitted that it released only 1% of the files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case that it has in its possession. In a court document filed on Monday (5), Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that the more than 2 million documents are still under analysis and that “there is still a lot of work to be done.” Only 12,285 of them have been released to date. “There remains substantial work to be done”, indicates the letter, which also announces that more than 400 Justice Department lawyers will dedicate “the next few weeks” to reviewing the documents, in addition to 100 FBI employees trained to handle “victims’ sensitive information”. Epstein case files cite ‘large Brazilian group’ US Department of Justice via AP; Reproduction via BBC The release of the investigation files began last month. The department had until December 19 to publish them in their entirety, in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump, but the deadline was not respected. On December 24, the US Department of Justice admitted that it would take “a few weeks” to release the rest of the thousands of documents from the Epstein case. On Tuesday (23), the US government released more than 30,000 documents from Epstein’s files, who was close to politicians and celebrities, was convicted of abusing minors and operating a sexual exploitation network. READ ALSO: ‘Large Brazilian group’: the link between the Jeffrey Epstein case and Brazil revealed in new documents Rich and famous, Bill Clinton exposed: what’s in Epstein’s files

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