Washington, Jan. 6 -- More than two weeks after the legal deadline to release the vast cache of files tied to the late financier-convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein, the US Justice Department acknowledged on Monday that it is still reviewing millions of records and has made public less than one per cent of the total material.
In a five-page status update submitted to the federal judge who previously oversaw Epstein's case, Manhattan's top federal prosecutor Jay Clayton said that more than two million documents remain "in various phases of review and redaction."So far, the DOJ has released roughly 12,285 documents, wrote Clayton, amounting to about 125,575 pages, in response to a federal law requiring the bulk of the Epstein files to be ...