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A group of 19 Jeffrey Epstein accusers Monday claimed the Justice Department badly botched its release of troves of the disgraced pedo financier’s files while committing a slew of “unambiguous” law violations.
The women, in a statement released by their lawyers, took the DOJ to task both for what was included and excised from the thousands of files pertaining to the late sicko’s sexual abuse of young women and girls.
“The public received a fraction of the files, and what we received was riddled with abnormal and extreme redactions with no explanation,” the statement read.
“At the same time, numerous victim identities were left unredacted, causing real and immediate harm.
“These are clear-cut violations of an unambiguous law,” the statement added.
A batch of the files as released Friday after President Trump signed a bill in November giving the department 30 days to make them public, followed by a second round Saturday removing some of the redactions.
The massive document dump involved court records, grand-jury testimony and thousands of images, including grotesque photos showing Epstein cuddling with little girls that were framed and displayed at his Little St. James Island mansion.
Monday’s statement from some of Epstein’s accusers claimed the staggered release of the documents made it “difficult or impossible” for them to comb the files for information they may have needed for their cases, while also faulting them for not releasing more.
“No financial documents were released,” the statement continued.
“Grand jury minutes, though approved by a federal judge, were fully blacked out — not the scattered redactions that might be expected to protect victim names, but 119 full pages blacked out,’’ the women said.
“We are told that there are hundreds of thousands of pages of documents still unreleased.’’
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