> Tens of thousands of Epstein docs were briefly posted Justice Dept website

New trove of apparent Epstein files posted on DOJ site disappears

The Justice Department didn’t respond to requests for comment on the new documents or the decision to remove them.

Tens of thousands of documents that appeared to be from the Epstein files were briefly posted on the Justice Department’s website Monday before disappearing without explanation.

The documents reviewed by POLITICO were available to download through a Justice.gov link early Monday afternoon and remained available for several hours. The link was not visible on the Justice Department’s website where officials have been posting documents from the files it is required to disclose under a law passed by Congress last month. But the URL corresponded with an anticipated eighth “dataset” of documents that officials were expected to release.