U.S. authorities have also discovered more than a million documents potentially linked to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, which they plan to release in the coming days and weeks, officials said.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI notified the Justice Department of the discovery and turned the documents over to attorneys for review.
“We have attorneys working around the clock to review and make legally required redactions to protect victims, and we will release these documents as quickly as possible,” the Justice Department said on social media on Wednesday.
The department said the process could take “several weeks” given the amount of material.
The agency said it will “continue to fully comply with federal law and President Trump’s direction in releasing these documents.”
The statement did not specify how the FBI and New York prosecutors discovered the additional material.
The news comes after the Justice Department last week released thousands of documents related to the Epstein investigation, some of them heavily redacted.
The documents were released after Congress passed the Epstein Documents Transparency Act and was signed into law by President Donald Trump, which orders the agency to share all documents with the public while protecting the identities of victims.
Names and other information were blacked out in many of the documents released last week, including those of people the FBI believes may be co-conspirators in Epstein’s case.
The Justice Department has faced criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle for numerous redactions in the document, which the law only allows for if it protects victims’ identities and aggressively pursues criminal investigations.
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