File photo: Jeffrey Epstein (Picture credit: AP)
WASHINGTON: The justice department said on Wednesday that it had discovered more than 1 million more documents potentially related to the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein – increasing the amount previously known and lengthening the time it will take to release the material.To date, the department has released about 130,000 pages of information, some of it redacted, to comply with a law passed by Congress requiring the disclosure of most of the material about Epstein. Under the law, the administration may withhold records that identify victims or information that would “jeopardize an active federal investigation.” The law gave the justice department a deadline of last Friday to release the files, and a batch of about 100,000 pages was released that day. But over the weekend, deputy attorney general Todd Blanche said about 1 million pages of information were being reviewed, and the full release would take a few more weeks.
