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Epstein victims victimized again by the government lawyers they're paying
Kay W.
February 03, 2026
I thought I was pretty well wholly disgusted with US law enforcement until I read this, which made me cry:
The Justice Department said Monday that it had withdrawn several thousand documents and “media” related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein after lawyers complained to a New York judge that the lives of nearly 100 victims had been “turned upside down” by sloppy redactions in the government’s latest release of records.
The exposed materials include nude photos showing the faces of potential victims as well as names, email addresses and other identifying information that was either unredacted or not fully obscured.
The department blamed it on “technical or human error.”
In a letter to the New York judges overseeing the sex trafficking cases brought against Epstein and confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton wrote that the department had taken down nearly all materials identified by victims or their lawyers, along with a “substantial number” of documents identified independently by the government.
However, lawyers for Epstein survivors say their clients needed to find their names themselves, then submit lengthy requests for removal to the DOJ.
“We notified them of the problem within an hour of the release,” attorney Brad Edwards said. “It’s been acknowledged as a grave error; there is no excuse for failing to immediately remedy it unless it was done intentionally.”
In case you’re not aware, attorneys conduct document review constantly. It is an entire subset of legal work. There are national and international companies who do nothing other than document review for complex cases. Apparently, the Department of Justice is incapable of conducting a document review, although every large law firm in the country can and do conduct massive document reviews constantly. Ignore the whining about how there are millions of Epstein docs - there are huge amounts of documents in any complex litigation. It’s a dumb excuse meant to trick you, the rubes who pay these people.
Add to this that in the United States (perhaps the DOJ is unfamiliar with US law) juveniles receive extraordinary privacy protections. In fact, there is an entire well-developed body of US law that deals with the tension between protecting juveniles and the public’s right to know. It is against the law to release photographs of sex trafficked girls in every US state. Every state, county and municipal prosecutor who has ever had a case involving a juvenile knows this. But I’m supposed to believe that the lawyers at DOJ do not? Bullshit.
So why did the US DOJ reveal naked photos of the (some underage) victims? Why did they reveal the names of survivors? Was it deliberate? To shame and humiliate them? So they can be targeted by insane Trump cultists?
Absolute pigs.
We cannot function as a country with this many corrupt lawyers at the highest levels. They are actively working against the public and the law.
The lawyers mention multiple instances where victims’ names were left unredacted, including one minor’s name allegedly “revealed 20 times in a single document.” When those mistakes were flagged and told to the DOJ, the lawyers said, only three of the mentions were redacted, with the other 17 left untouched. In another instance, one email mentions 32 underage victims with only one of them redacted, while some FBI forms included in the file release left full names unredacted.
Some of the victims testified anonymously in the letter that they received death threats and harassment from the media since the files publicly identified them.
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