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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

Trump’s DOJ is seeking hundreds of lawyers to sift through more than 5 million Epstein files before release: report

The Department of Justice is seeking to bring in as many as 400 additional lawyers to help it comb through approximately 5.2 million pages of documents related to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, according to a report.

The DOJ assigned more than 200 lawyers to the files in late November, who were tasked with reviewing the material and making redactions in the interest of safeguarding the sex offender’s victims, protecting national security, and preventing ongoing investigations from being compromised.

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