India, Dec. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Justice has initiated the largest-ever public disclosure of records related to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, releasing hundreds of thousands of documents after a legal deadline passed. The monumental release, mandated by a new transparency law, offers an unprecedented look into the investigations of Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, though the DOJ has already admitted it will not meet the full mandate on time. Here is a comprehensive breakdown of what this means.

The "Epstein Files" constitute the official U.S. government records from multiple federal investigations into the financier's sex trafficking network. They include:

These records were mainly kept under wraps for ma...