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The U.S. Justice Department's leadership made an "emergency request" to the Southern District of Florida’s U.S. Attorney’s Office for volunteer attorneys to help review and redact documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein files over the "next several days," in exchange for days off later, CNN reported, citing an internal DOJ email.
"I am aware that the timing could not be worse," the U.S. Attorney's Office leadership wrote Tuesday, per CNN. "For some the holidays are about to begin, but I know that for others the holidays are coming to an end."
The email suggests that the DOJ could be releasing more Epstein files over the holidays after failing to meet a deadline to make the full set of documents available by Dec. 19.
