Deputy Lawyer Normal Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Justice Division’s launch of greater than 3 million pages from the division’s recordsdata on the late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, as survivors and lawmakers criticize the disclosure as inadequate and stuffed with redaction errors.
“We took nice pains, as I defined on Friday, to guarantee that we protected victims,” Blanche instructed ABC Information’ “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos. “Each time we hear from a sufferer or their lawyer that they consider that their title was not correctly redacted, we instantly rectify that.”
Blanche stated that redaction errors solely influence “about .001% of all of the supplies.”
“We knew this — I stated this on Friday — that that, in fact, the character of one of these overview was so — the quantity of supplies that had been reviewed, that there could be instances when this occurred. And so we’re, we’re working arduous to guarantee that we repair that, and I anticipate that that can proceed,” he stated.
Deputy Lawyer Normal Todd Blanche seems on ABC Information’ “This Week” on Feb. 1, 2026.
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A bunch of Epstein survivors issued a press release Friday slamming the newest launch, and demanding accountability for others they are saying both enabled Epstein or have been accused of abuse by victims as properly.
“Survivors are having their names and figuring out info uncovered, whereas the lads who abused us stay hidden and guarded. That’s outrageous,” the group of survivors wrote. “The Justice Division can’t declare it’s completed releasing recordsdata till each legally required doc is launched and each abuser and enabler is totally uncovered.”
However save for the likelihood a decide approves the discharge of a “small variety of [additional] paperwork,” Blanche stated the division’s overview of Epstein-related recordsdata is “over.”
“This overview is, is over. I imply, we reviewed over 6 million items of paper, hundreds of movies, hundreds — tens of hundreds of photos, and — which is what the statute required us to do,” Blanche stated.
The deputy lawyer common additionally criticized lawmakers who had been “fast to complain” in regards to the launch.
“There isn’t a manner they’ve spent any time trying on the supplies we produced. As a result of I do know the supplies we produced. We produce them on Friday. By Saturday, they’re already complaining about what we did?” Blanche stated.
He reiterated that lawmakers can request to view the unredacted supplies, however stated he had not acquired a letter from the co-authors of the Epstein Recordsdata Transparency Act asking to take action.
“I did not get that letter but. They leaked it to the press earlier than they really despatched it to me,” Blanche stated. “Now we have nothing to cover. We by no means did, and our doorways are open in the event that they wish to come and overview any of the supplies that we produced.”
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