Law firm representing alleged Epstein victims sends scathing letter over DOJ document release [View all]

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According to the attorneys' filing, the House Oversight release included the unredacted names and personal information of dozens of victims, including women who were minors at the time of their abuse. One document alone contained 28 unredacted names of alleged victim, the attorneys wrote. Based on the scope of the issue, the attorneys said that they believe the DOJ either "does not know the identities of all the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and thus cannot apply proper redactions to the files," or "is intentionally failing to protect victims from public exposure."

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The filing further noted that the DOJ publicly acknowledged in July that "Epstein harmed over one thousand victims." Based on that statement, the attorneys asked in the filing that the court confirm with the DOJ that, prior to submitting the files to the House Oversight Committee, "it undertook the onerous and necessary task of redacting all one thousand plus victim names that it had in its possession."

"On that pointed inquiry, the court will learn the DOJ's redaction process and its process efforts are so irreconcilable with the number of victims it has publicly acknowledged that, when confronted with the discrepancy, its response will land somewhere between incoherent mumbling, non sequitur, and outright misrepresentation," the attorneys wrote.

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"Despite numerous pleas for assistance, there is one singular entity that the victims cannot seem to find a way to engage and which has been the primary violator of the victims' identity protection thus far -- the Department of Justice," they wrote.

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