A new investigation looking at emails shared between federal investigators and prosecutors has brought up more questions about the Department of Justice’s claim that they have fully released all the files related to Jeffrey Epstein. The emails suggest that only a small part of the collected data has been made public, just around 2% of what was gathered by federal agents.
Channel 4 News, a U.K. broadcaster, shared details from internal emails that show federal investigators expected to handle between 20 and 40 terabytes of data taken from Epstein’s properties, like his Florida mansion, New York townhouse, and private island.
The emails also mentioned that at the start of the investigation in June 2020, the data was expected to total up to 50 terabytes.
Another internal email from 2025 said officials were looking at around 14.6 terabytes of archived data.
The report explained that the most recent batch of documents released, which includes 3.5 million files, totals more than 300 gigabytes.
This amount is just 2% of the data that officials were discussing just a year ago.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act required the release of millions of documents connected to Epstein, and it also required department lawyers to review all files for anything related to Epstein and his network.
Asnushka Asthana, the U.S. editor for Channel 4, said, “They claimed that 6 million pages were identified, including duplicates — they released over 3 million.
Both those numbers are tiny compared to the amount collected according to today’s emails.”
One email said, “Many files are too large to open… There are many files that are completely invisible to us.
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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.”
Days after the report was first shared, Attorney General Pam Bondi told Congress that the Justice Department has now released all files in its possession related to Epstein, as required by the law passed last year.
In a letter to lawmakers on February 14, Bondi said the department had “released all ‘records, documents, communications and investigative materials’ concerning Epstein,” along with material that fits into eight additional categories set out in the law.
She also added that the department had provided a list of “all government officials and politically exposed persons’ names or referenced in the released materials.”
Watch via Channel 4.
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