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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Victoria Bekiempis

World awaits fresh Epstein cache – but could Trump officials block full release?

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Protesters calling for the release of Epstein documents outside the US Capitol earlier this week. Photograph: Mehmet Eser/Zuma/Shutterstock

They are the files that America – and the world – has long waited to see: a huge cache of documents at the Department of Justice related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, whom a judge once dubbed the “most infamous pedophile in American history”.

After a law passed by Congress and signed by Trump on Wednesday, those documents must now must be released to the American public and a waiting army of journalists. Just like previous Epstein caches they are certain to include damning communications between Epstein and many rich and powerful people in his social circle.

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