The Department of Justice released 3.5 million pages of Epstein files on January 30. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche called it the final release. The department’s own count puts the total collection at six million pages. Roughly three million remain withheld.
President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November 19, 2025. The law required DOJ to produce all unclassified records related to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, subject to narrow exceptions for victim identification, classified material, and active investigations.
The House Oversight Committee has moved faster than any prior Epstein investigation. Chairman James Comer has completed transcribed interviews with former Attorney General Bill Barr, former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, Ghislaine Maxwell, Les Wexner, former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Epstein estate accountant Richard Kahn. Epstein’s longtime attorney Darren Indyke sat for a deposition on March 19.
Comer requested prison guard Tova Noel, who was on duty the night Epstein died at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019, appear on March 26. The released files show she Googled “latest on Epstein in jail” less than an hour before his body was found. Separate records show a $5,000 cash deposit into her bank account ten days earlier. The interview was postponed with no new date set.
The Indyke deposition may reshape the investigation’s direction. Under oath, Epstein’s lawyer confirmed that private investigators removed desktop computers and more than two dozen phone directories from Epstein’s Palm Beach home before police searched it in 2005. Indyke told the committee the evidence was likely never turned over to law enforcement.
Oversight Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia has requested transcribed interviews with the three investigators — Paul Lavery, Stephen Kiraly, and William Riley. The deadline to respond is April 9.
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden opened a separate front on March 23 with a letter to Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black. Black paid Epstein $170 million over several years, ostensibly for tax and estate planning. Wyden’s findings from the DOJ files tell a more specific story.
The rates Black paid Epstein ran 30 times higher than what he paid the elite advisors already handling his affairs. Ten million dollars was routed through a 501(c)(3) charity that Epstein’s lawyer Richard Kahn described in an email as a way to “avoid public disclosure” and “maximize deductions.” Millions more went to women through Epstein as middleman, papered as “gifts” — raising federal gift-tax compliance questions.
Epstein provided the Russian government with the locations of women on Black’s payroll. The head of the law firm Paul Weiss partnered with Epstein to surveil women on Black’s behalf.
Wyden also disclosed that Blanche — Trump’s former personal defense lawyer, now the second-ranking official at DOJ — intervened to block the Drug Enforcement Administration from complying with a Senate request for documents on a previously undisclosed five-year federal investigation into Epstein for narcotics trafficking, prostitution, and money laundering.
The congressional review process itself has become a separate point of conflict. Raskin, Garcia, and Jayapal wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi on March 23 accusing DOJ of violating the Transparency Act. Members may review files on four DOJ computers at a satellite office open during business hours only, with no staff assistance and no notetaking permitted. DOJ monitors their searches.
At that pace, the lawmakers wrote, reviewing the available files would take more than seven years. The committee subpoenaed Bondi on March 4 in a 24-19 vote, with five Republicans — Nancy Mace, Tim Burchett, Michael Cloud, Lauren Boebert, and Scott Perry — joining Democrats. Bondi’s deposition is scheduled for April 14.
The Transparency Act set a 30-day deadline. Three months later, half the files remain withheld, the DOJ’s own deputy attorney general is blocking Senate requests, and the process Congress built for oversight requires seven years to complete.
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