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Mr.WeRP

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Mon Dec 22, 2025, 05:27 PM Dec 22

The DoJ did not properly redact the documents. Hopefully these are fully downloaded. [View all]

But it looks like the Government released Epstein files are not properly redacted.

Check out this post on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/s/DHOfbE8nVr

The below excerpt is copied from a redacted portion of this document:
DoJ Link

203. Defendants also attempted to conceal their criminal sex trafficking and abuse
conduct by paying large sums of money to participant-witnesses, including by paying for their
attorneys’ fees and case costs in litigation related to this conduct.
204. Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories
about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being
trafficked and sexually abused.
205. Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to
destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants’ criminal sex
trafficking and abuse conduct.


The above three sections are completely redacted from this document on the government website. However if you select the redaction region, copy and paste it, you get the entire text for the redacted portion.

I know others have fully downloaded the data so this should be doable on the downloaded content as well.

On edit: you can also search the redacted document and it highlights the redacted regions with the matching text.
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