Todd Blanche Produces Epstein Materials After Judge Sullivan’s Order (10/8/26)

In a two-page filing in Phang v. Blanche, Attorney General Todd Blanche notified Judge Emmet Sullivan that the Justice Department had complied with the court’s order requiring it to provide certain Epstein-related materials for in camera review. DOJ said it hand-delivered the documents to the judge’s chambers on September 24, 2026, after the court directed the government to substantiate some of its redactions and document-production claims. The materials showed that DOJ had redacted certain names and email addresses as victim-identifying information based on representations made by attorneys for the victims. The filing identified the disputed material by Epstein Files Transparency Act document numbers and explained that the government relied on victim counsel in deciding that the information should remain protected.

DOJ also submitted unredacted handwritten notes underlying several typewritten FBI FD-302 interview reports, along with the unredacted typed versions, and told the court that the handwritten notes were duplicative of reports already available in the Epstein Library. In addition, the department provided 2021 email exchanges among attorneys in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York describing efforts to collect the relevant records. The October 5 filing was essentially a formal notice telling the court that Blanche had finally produced the materials Judge Sullivan demanded, while also laying out DOJ’s justification for the challenged victim-related redactions and its position that the underlying handwritten FBI notes did not contain materially different information from the published typed reports.


to contact me:


[email protected]



source:

gov.uscourts.dcd.291779.54.0.pdf