Deputy Attorney General Says DOJ Won’t Release Full Epstein Files to Congress by Deadline

The Justice Department said it would release ’several hundred thousand' files by the Dec. 19 deadline.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington on Nov. 19, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Department of Justice (DOJ) will not release the full files related to Jeffrey Epstein by the Dec. 19 deadline, as mandated under new legislation, and will instead release them in batches.

The DOJ on Friday afternoon started releasing an initial tranche of the files related to Epstein, which can be accessed on the department’s website under a section called the “Epstein Files Transparency Act.”