Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday the Justice Department will not pursue additional criminal charges following the release of millions of documents from its Jeffrey Epstein investigation, maintaining the agency’s position that the materials do not provide grounds for prosecution.
Blanche made the announcement during an interview on CNN‘s “State of the Union,” three days after the Trump administration released more than 3 million pages of documents, 2,000 videos and 180,000 images collected during two decades of federal investigations into the convicted sex offender.
“There’s a lot of correspondence. There’s a lot of emails. There’s a lot of photographs. There’s a lot of horrible photographs that appear to be taken by Mr. Epstein or people around him,” Blanche said. “But that doesn’t allow us necessarily to prosecute somebody.”
The department first announced in July 2025 that its review of Epstein-related records did not establish a basis for new criminal investigations. Blanche said that the conclusion remains unchanged despite renewed public scrutiny following Friday’s document release.
The deputy attorney general addressed concerns about prominent individuals named in the files, including President Donald Trump, who appears more than 1,000 times in the documents. Blanche said many allegations stemmed from anonymous tips or unverifiable sources that cannot support criminal prosecution.
“It turns out, there was a number of claims made by either anonymous people or somebody, for example, calling and saying, ‘I used to have a roommate who told me this sensational story,'” Blanche claimed. He added that investigators cannot pursue cases without identifiable witnesses or corroborating evidence.
Meanwhile, a senior Slovakian official resigned after the files revealed meetings with Epstein following his 2008 jail release. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer suggested Prince Andrew should cooperate with US investigators about his knowledge of Epstein’s activities.
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