Epstein files released LIVE updates: US Justice Department makes records on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein public

The Trump administration is poised to release hundreds of thousands of documents related to the federal investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein today, but won’t make the entire cache of files public for weeks.

The admission by US deputy attorney-general Todd Blanche that not all documents would be released on Friday (Saturday AEDT) – the deadline under a law signed by President Donald Trump 30 days ago – led Democrats to say they were investigating legal options.

Democratic congressmen Robert Garcia and Jamie Raskin said Trump and the Justice Department intended to defy Congress by failing to release all the files by the statutory deadline.

US correspondent Michael Koziol filed this report ahead of the documents’ release.