DOJ, Epstein victims reach deal to protect identities [View all]

Source: The Hill

02/04/26 10:08 AM ET


The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reached an agreement with victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after the department leaked victims’ names in their latest release of files related to the Epstein probe. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman canceled a hearing to address the victims’ complaints scheduled for Wednesday after the DOJ agreed to quickly fix these errors, the Associated Press reported.

The lawyers for the Epstein victims said they discovered thousands of references to almost 100 victims in the DOJ’s latest release of 3.5 million documents last Friday. In an emergency request to the court on Monday, the lawyers petitioned the court to order the government to shut down the file database website until proper reductions can be made.

The victims’ lawyers called the redaction errors the “single most egregious violation of victim privacy in one day in United States history.”

“Within the past 48 hours, the undersigned alone has reported thousands of redaction failures on behalf of nearly 100 individual survivors whose lives have been turned upside down by DOJ’s latest release,” the lawyers wrote in their complaint.

Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5722262-doj-epstein-victims-reach-deal-to-protect-identities/