We created a searchable database for the Epstein Files, including everything the DOJ wants hidden
The repository will continue to grow as the Trump administration releases hundreds of thousands more documents from the investigation into Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.
The US Department of Justice on Friday published a heavily redacted portion of the documents from its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s international sex trafficking operation, and then summarily began deleting portions that could implicate President Donald Trump.
Prior to the DOJ’s attempt to walk back what little transparency was to be found, COURIER retrieved every item from the initial release and published it in a searchable database that is available to the public. Anyone interested can utilize the database here.
Included in the database are court filings, images, video, audio, and two sets of transcriptions of conversations between US Deputy Attorney General Todd Balnche and Epstein accomplice Ghislane Maxwell. The first transcription is what has been provided by the DOJ; the second is an independent transcription directly from the audio recordings of those conversations.
The decision to create a repository independent of the Trump administration’s search tool was made in an attempt to make the Epstein Files as accessible and available to the public as possible, and to circumvent any attempt by the DOJ to obscure the information guaranteed to the public by law.
The poorly organized data dump was part of a failed—and likely illegal—attempt to comply with three separate court orders and the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a law that requires the government to disclose its entire investigation into Epstein. So far, the DOJ has broken nearly every aspect of the law and violated every court order.
The Trump administration has failed in its statutory obligation to “publish (in a searchable and downloadable format) all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials in DOJ’s possession that relate to the investigation and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein,” including travel records and the names of anyone “named or referenced (including government officials),” with the exception of Epstein’s victims. In response, a quickly growing number of Congress members have threatened to impeach and hold criminally liable anyone in the administration involved in the apparent cover-up.
“Congress is talking about possible impeachment,” said US Rep. Ro Khana (D-Calif.), a co-author of the Act. “Any justice department official who has obstructed justice could face prosecution in this administration or a future administration.”
Victims of Epstein and his co-conspirators have also called the release inadequate and have expressed frustration that the administration has used victims as a shield to avoid publishing the Epstein Files.
“It’s really kind of another slap in the face,” Alicia Arden told CNN. “I wanted all the files to come out, like they said that they were going to.”
While the contents of the DOJ’s Epstein Files will ebb and flow, COURIER’s database will only grow as more is released. The Trump administration is expected to release hundreds of thousands more documents in the coming weeks, which will then be uploaded to COURIER’s independent repository.
In October, COURIER published a similar database of 20,000 documents from the Epstein Estate. The two databases will remain separate, and interested parties are encouraged to compare findings between the two.
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