President Donald Trump's administration, which failed to meet a deadline to release records related to alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, announced Dec. 24 that the process will take “a few more weeks" after prosecutors found more than a million additional documents,
The Justice Department, via its official X account, said that New York-based federal prosecutors and the FBI "have uncovered over a million more documents potentially related to the Jeffrey Epstein case.” The statement did not specify when those documents were discovered.
The department, led by Attorney General Pam Bondi, said that despite having lawyers “working around the clock” to remove information that could jeopardize victims and accusers’ privacy, the release "may take a few more weeks."
The administration began releasing files related to criminal investigations of Epstein, the late American financier who was friends with Trump in the 1990s and early 2000s, to comply with a law passed by Congress last month.
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