1. United States
2. Ohio
3. Letter

The Department of Justice is in clear violation of federal law. The Epstein Files Transparency Act mandated the release of all investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein by December 19, 2025. More than one month past this congressional deadline, the vast majority of documents remain unreleased. According to a January 5 Manhattan court filing, the DoJ has posted approximately 12,285 documents totaling about 125,575 pages. However, justice department staff have identified more than 2 million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are still under review. The current disclosures represent only a tiny fraction of the total files. This is not a discretionary timeline. Congress created a legal obligation. The Act's co-sponsors, Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie, have identified multiple violations in their January 8 letter to Manhattan federal court judge Paul Engelmayer. The DoJ missed the statutory deadline, asserted common-law privileges the Act does not permit, applied extensive redactions that appear designed to protect politically exposed persons, and failed to provide a required report within 15 days identifying categories of records released and withheld. Attorney Spencer Kuvin, who has represented dozens of Epstein's survivors, stated that for survivors, this delay is not procedural but personal. Continued secrecy retraumatizes victims and undermines public confidence in the justice system. As Kuvin emphasized, transparency doesn't fail because statutes are unclear. It fails when institutions choose protection over accountability. Khanna and Massie believe criminal violations have taken place and that the DoJ cannot be trusted with making mandatory disclosures under the Act. They have requested Judge Engelmayer appoint a special master or independent monitor to ensure all documents are immediately made public. I urge you to publicly demand the DoJ's full and immediate compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. All files must be released unredacted except for victim names. Support the appointment of a special master to compel compliance. The American people deserve transparency, and survivors deserve justice.