About a million more Epstein files were discovered in the United States. What the media is writing
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The U.S. Department of Justice has received about 1 million more documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Their publication may take several more weeks, which violates the law requiring them to be shown by December 19th. Recent publications have revealed details of Epstein's connections with the former British Prince Andrew, who lost all titles because of this case. What the world's media write about the disgraced financier is in the Izvestia digest.
Axios: It will take several weeks to complete the publication of Epstein's files
The U.S. Department of Justice has reported that more than a million potential documents related to Epstein have been submitted to the agency for review and possible publication. The announcement came amid criticism of the agency for not releasing all documents before the December 19 deadline set by Congress.
Axios
The Justice Department has nevertheless released thousands of documents related to Epstein, often heavily redacted. Some of them mention [US President Donald] Trump, although he has never been accused of any wrongdoing in this case. Only on Tuesday evening, representatives of the Trump administration announced that about 700,000 documents remained, and they expect to complete the publication of documents on the Epstein case within a week.
The file review process could take "several more weeks" due to the "sheer volume of materials," the Justice Ministry said. The intrigue lies in the fact that the statement does not explain how the officials discovered the additional materials.
NBC News: the main conclusions from the third publication of the Epstein case materials
The Justice Department has released the third batch of Epstein's documents. She sheds light on the alleged accomplices and connections of the late sex offender with the former Prince Andrew. There were several mentions of Trump among the documents. So, in an email sent in January 2020 by the federal prosecutor of New York, who, apparently, was involved in the criminal case against Epstein's accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, an unnamed person was informed about the flights of Trump and Epstein for the 1990s.
NBC News
"On one flight in 1993, he and Epstein were the only two passengers listed; on the other, the three passengers were Epstein, Trump, and the then 20-year-old [name is classified]. On the other two flights, two passengers were women who could have testified in the Maxwell case."
In an email dated August 16, 2001, sent to Maxwell from an address marked as "The Invisible Man," it says: "I am here at Balmoral Summer Camp for the royal family," which is apparently a reference to Balmoral Castle, the royal estate in Scotland. One of Epstein's victims, Virginia Giuffre, said that Epstein and Maxwell handed her over to the former Prince Andrew in the early 2000s, when she was 17 years old. Andrew was never prosecuted.
The Guardian: Andrew asked Maxwell to recommend "unsuitable friends" to him
According to the latest documents from Epstein's archives, the former Prince Andrew asked Epstein's assistant Ghislaine Maxwell to arrange meetings with "unsuitable friends", while she was looking for "friendly, tactful and funny" girls for him. Emails from 2001 and 2002 shed additional light on the relationship between Andrew and Epstein. The case file indicates that the FBI tried to interrogate Andrew about his connections with another millionaire who committed sexual crimes, Peter Nygard.
The Guardian
In the latest batch of documents in the Epstein case, e-mail correspondence for 2001 and 2002 was discovered between Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for human trafficking crimes, and the defendant, who appears in the correspondence as the "Invisible Man", signs himself as "A" and indicates that he writes from Balmoral, the royal residence in the Scottish Highlands. "Have you found new unsuitable friends for me?" writes "A" in one of Maxwell's emails dated August 16, 2001. A day later, Maxwell replied, "I'm very sorry to disappoint you. However, the truth must be told. I only managed to find suitable friends."
In the same email correspondence, "A" mentions leaving the Royal Navy in the same year. He also mentions the death in August 2001 of a valet who had served him since childhood. Later, in February and March 2002, there was correspondence, during which Maxwell forwarded a message to a third person, Juan Esteban Ganosa, about preparations for a trip to Peru, which included arranging meetings with "girls." The forwarded message says: "I just gave Andrew your phone number."
The New York Times: Classified materials from the Epstein case are easily recovered
Parts of some files made public as part of the Justice Department's investigation into Epstein have not been properly digitally edited. Some censored information was easily identified by copying and pasting the shaded text into a separate file. However, the information obtained as a result of an unsuccessful editing attempt does not shed any additional light on the connections between Trump and Epstein.
The New York Times
But it showed even more examples of how Epstein committed his abuses and hid his money with the help of financial and corporate structures, and the ease with which the materials were recovered suggests that at least some of the materials from the array of documents published by the Ministry of Justice were hastily censored.
One such unfortunate case of editing occurred in a civil lawsuit against the executors of Epstein's will, filed in the Virgin Islands in 2021. According to an edited portion of the civil lawsuit, discovered by copying and pasting into another document, one of the perpetrators, Darren Indyk, signed a check from the Epstein Foundation addressed to an immigration lawyer who "was involved in one or more forced marriages performed among Epstein's victims."
Bloomberg: publication of Epstein's files does not satisfy anyone
The long-awaited publication of Epstein's materials turned into a chaotic spectacle that shifted attention to his previously well-known associates, including Trump and former President Bill Clinton, and at the same time increased discontent. The Ministry published thousands of pages of heavily edited documents and photographs, mostly in two batches several days apart. Now it has announced that prosecutors in New York have identified another 1 million documents.
Bloomberg
There have already been technical issues and disagreements about whether some pages should be made publicly available. Internet detectives quickly found ways to view some of the disguised fragments. But despite the big headlines, new details about Epstein's scandalous lifestyle and fresh conspiracy theories on social media, the staged publication has not yet quenched the public's thirst for revealing the identity of the new conspirators. Meanwhile, she is being criticized in Congress for not meeting the December 19 deadline and Trump's complaints that she is unfairly tarnishing her reputation.
The revelations of the Ministry of Justice do not seem to satisfy anyone. The delays and significant reductions in information have prompted Congressional Democrats and some Republicans to claim that the administration is violating the Epstein Transparency Act, which requires the publication of these documents. According to a recent Quinnipiac poll, 55% of Republicans surveyed said they approve of Trump's actions on this issue, while the vast majority of Democrats and independent voters disapprove of him. A total of 65% of respondents said they disapprove of Trump's actions on this issue.
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