"The release last Friday of a new batch of Jeffrey Epstein documentsthe largest to date: 3.5 million files that can be viewed here, including 2,000 videos and 180,000 imagesbrought further disappointment to the victims of the financier and sex offender, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, and of his accomplice and fixer, Ghislaine Maxwell, sentenced in 2022 to 20 years in prison."
"In the last 48 hours, the undersigned have reported thousands of failures to preserve the identity of nearly 100 survivors whose lives have been drastically affected by the recent Justice Department release, the letter states. No conceivable degree of institutional incompetence is sufficient to explain the scale, consistency and persistence of the failures that occurred particularly where the sole task was simple: redact known victim names before publication."
The Justice Department released 3.5 million Jeffrey Epstein-related files, including 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. The release exposed the identities of numerous victims and caused renewed outrage among survivors whose names and identifying information appeared unredacted. Eighteen victims issued a joint statement saying survivors were exposed while the men who abused them remained hidden and protected. Victim lawyers sent a letter to judges in New York asking courts to force the DOJ to remove the documents from online publication. The lawyers reported thousands of redaction failures affecting nearly 100 survivors, cited specific errors including an underage victim's name appearing 20 times, and said the DOJ corrected only three reported errors.
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