Files appear to contain information already in public domain as calls grow for release of all pertinent documents
The US House of Representatives oversight committee on Tuesday released thousands of pages of records related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from the department of justice.
The release comes as the Trump administration has been embroiled in months of controversy over its decision not to release additional files in the case. Epstein died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges and was alleged to have abused hundreds of girls.
The 33,000 pages included years-old court filings related to Epstein and his former girlfriend and associate Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as what appears to be bodycam footage from police searches and police interviews. The files appear to contain information that is already public knowledge.
Interesting. I did a quick search to get an estimate of the number of pages in a GB of data. One page I found put the number of pages in a GB of data between 65,000 pages (if they’re Word files) and 100,000 pages (for emails). So if there are 300GB of Epstein data total, then there are somewhere between 19.5 million and 30 million pages in total.
If we assume all the files are Word files, 33,000 pages is about .17% of the total. If it’s emails then 33,000 pages is about 11% of the total. So yeah. Essentially nothing. Assuming I did the math right, there are somewhere between 99.83% and 99.89% of the files yet to be released.