When the Home Oversight Committee launched a trove of recordsdata and emails from the Epstein property earlier this month, alleged victims of the convicted intercourse offender responded with “widespread panic” after studying the paperwork included dozens of unredacted sufferer names, outstanding attorneys for Epstein victims informed a federal choose this week.
“I believed the federal government had promised to redact our names and figuring out materials. I do not perceive how that is occurring once more,” one alleged sufferer informed attorneys Bradley Edwards and Brittany Henderson, with the Edwards Henderson legislation agency, based on a court filing Wednesday.
“This sort of negligence by the federal government to a survivor is simply unable to grasp. It’s simply not possible,” one other alleged sufferer stated, based on the submitting. “I do not perceive how that is doable.”
“I’ve been unable to mentally and emotionally perform or sleep,” one more alleged sufferer wrote, per the courtroom submitting.
With the Justice Division now going through a Dec. 19 deadline to launch tons of of hundreds of Epstein recordsdata, as required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Edwards Henderson attorneys are calling on a federal choose to order the DOJ to enhance their evaluate coverage to stop one other launch of doubtless delicate details about alleged victims.
Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, Ma., Sept. 8, 2004.
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“These girls aren’t political pawns. They’re moms, wives, and daughters. These are girls who have been abused by Jeffrey Epstein, and in some cases by others, and who’ve already had their rights violated up to now by the Authorities,” the attorneys wrote within the submitting to U.S. District Decide Richard Berman. “They’re human beings who’ve the precise to be handled with dignity and respect, and to really feel protected and guarded by our nation, which has failed them time and time once more.”
In line with the attorneys’ submitting, the Home Oversight launch included the unredacted names and private data of dozens of victims, together with girls who have been minors on the time of their abuse. One doc alone contained 28 unredacted names of alleged sufferer, the attorneys wrote. Primarily based on the scope of the problem, the attorneys stated that they consider the DOJ both “doesn’t know the identities of all of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and thus can’t apply correct redactions to the recordsdata,” or “is deliberately failing to guard victims from public publicity.”
“Whereas we are going to element the assorted excuses that the Court docket will little question be supplied, that is completely unacceptable and a program that have to be rectified previous to the general public launch of any extra paperwork,” the Edwards Henderson attorneys wrote.
The submitting additional famous that the DOJ publicly acknowledged in July that “Epstein harmed over one thousand victims.” Primarily based on that assertion, the attorneys requested within the submitting that the courtroom verify with the DOJ that, previous to submitting the recordsdata to the Home Oversight Committee, “it undertook the onerous and essential activity of redacting all one thousand plus sufferer names that it had in its possession.”
“On that pointed inquiry, the courtroom will study the DOJ’s redaction course of and its course of efforts are so irreconcilable with the variety of victims it has publicly acknowledged that, when confronted with the discrepancy, its response will land someplace between incoherent mumbling, non sequitur, and outright misrepresentation,” the attorneys wrote.
After months of anticipation, the Home of Representatives voted 427-1 to cross a invoice ordering the discharge of the Justice Division’s recordsdata on late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein in Washington, Nov. 18, 2025.
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The attorneys additionally alleged within the submitting that victims have been unable to contact the Division of Justice to stop the identical factor from occurring once more.
“Regardless of quite a few pleas for help, there may be one singular entity that the victims can’t appear to discover a technique to interact and which has been the first violator of the victims’ identification safety up to now — the Division of Justice,” they wrote.
With the DOJ already possessing tons of of hundreds of Epstein paperwork, the attorneys additionally forged doubt in regards to the Trump administration’s intention in looking for out separate grand jury material.
The DOJ has requested judges in New York and Florida to authorize the discharge of grand jury transcripts and reveals from the prosecutions of Epstein and Maxwell — data that’s sometimes not made public. Earlier than the passage of the Epstein Information Transparency Act, the DOJ made comparable requests that have been denied by judges.
“[T]his extremely small, and largely irrelevant, subset of grand jury supplies [seems] to function nothing greater than DOJ’s perpetual distraction from offering the American folks with full transparency because it pertains to Jeffrey Epstein, whereas defending the victims,” the submitting states.
Rep. Thomas Massie speaks alongside Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene throughout a information convention on the Epstein Information Transparency Act outdoors the U.S. Capitol, November 18, 2025 in Washington.
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The Edwards Henderson attorneys requested Decide Berman to order the Division of Justice to make clear what paperwork they plan to launch and the method for redacting them. He additionally requested the flexibility to discuss with the DOJ to make sure that a whole listing of victims’ names is used within the redaction course of.
Decide Berman responded to the letter Wednesday by ordering the Division of Justice, by midday Monday, Dec. 1, to supply a “detailed description” of the supplies they search to launch and a “detailed description of the privateness course of, together with any redactions, the Authorities seeks to make use of to guard the rights of Epstein victims.”
In a separate filing Wednesday, U.S. Lawyer Jay Clayton stated his workplace would “discuss with counsel for recognized victims regarding names and phrases for withholding and redactions.”
Clayton additionally clarified the breadth of the paperwork the Division of Justice seeks to launch, together with notes from witness interviews, search warrant functions, monetary and journey data, grand jury subpoena returns, college data, supplies from the Epstein property, and legislation enforcement data.
