<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The US Justice Department said it has released 12,285 documents – less than 1 per cent – of its Jeffrey Epstein-related files, with more than 2 million documents still being reviewed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told a federal judge in a court filing that "substantial work remains to be done".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Looking to update the court on their progress, they told Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York that the 12,285 documents the department has already released contain roughly 125,575 pages.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/danish-prime-minister-says-a-us-takeover-of-greenland-would-mark-the-end-of-nato/8d4d1089-391f-4e5d-8c17-69f7a201d793" rel="" target="_blank" title="Danish prime minister says a US takeover of Greenland would mark the end of NATO"><strong><span>Danish prime minister says a US takeover of Greenland would mark the end of NATO</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There are more than 2 million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review," they added.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It comes after Congress passed a law in November – with near-unanimous support – giving the Justice Department a December 19, 2025, deadline to release all of its files about Epstein, the convicted sex offender who was accused of abusing dozens of underage girls. Epstein died by suicide in 2019.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The files are made up of papers, videos, photographs and audio files that live within the FBI's main electronic case management system and largely originate from the FBI's two major investigations into Epstein, in Florida and New York, spanning decades.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/less-than-1-per-cent-of-epstein-files-released-says-us-justice-department/6354ec08-68d5-4f56-abc0-117e59967053" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A July 2025 FBI memo said that the department had uncovered "more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence" during a review of the investigative materials.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This work has required and will continue to require substantial Department resources," the Justice Department wrote to the judge in the Monday court filing.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/trisha-graf-south-australia-police-treating-disappearance-of-mother-as-suspicious/a26d1ec5-3d57-471c-b4ba-495399836b34" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Police declare 'major crime' after suspicious disappearance of mother</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We noted in our prior letter the hundreds of attorneys dedicated to the review at the time of that letter. Currently, and anticipated for the next few weeks ahead, in the range of over 400 lawyers across the Department will dedicate all or a substantial portion of their workday to the Department's efforts to comply with the Act."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Trump appointees at the Justice Department have said they're acting in good faith to release as much material as fast as possible, while also going through the painstaking work of reviewing every file to make sure victims' identities are shielded, as required by the law.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In a letter to Congress released on December 19, Blanche said the department was working "diligently" to meet the deadline but that the "volume of materials" meant it "must publicly produce responsive documents on a rolling basis."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Justice Department announced in late December that there were more than a million more newly discovered documents potentially related to Epstein – and that they would take "weeks" to review and release them.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>And as CNN previously reported, the Justice Department's leadership also asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the holidays to help redact the documents.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://9.nine.com.au/Z8tJCf"><strong><span>Sign up here</span></strong></a><strong><span> to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.</span></strong></div></div>