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Documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation released by the US Department of Justice on Tuesday, December 23, 2025 show an email with the subject line “Inmate Epstein.” The sender claims Epstein said he was “getting dehydrated” in prison.
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Analysis Tuesday’s release features more mentions of US President Trump than last week’s dump and raises additional questions about the DOJ’s handling of the files
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The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida Tuesday to volunteer over the “next several days” to help to redact the Epstein files, in the latest internal Trump administrationpush toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Newly-released documents from disgraced late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including a sheaf of entirely redacted pages, are seen in this handout released by the US Justice Department and printed and arranged for a photograph by Reuters in Washington, DC on December 19.
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