Stopovers in Shannon feature in latest tranche of Jeffrey Epstein files

Handout photo issued by US Department of Justice of Jeffrey Epstein standing in front of his second private plane. File Picture

The US justice department has published a new and final cache of millions of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Todd Blanche, the US deputy attorney general, said yesterday’s massive batch of files marked the end of the Trump administration’s planned releases under a law passed in November.

The new cache includes more than 3m pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images.

Trips to Ireland and stopovers in Shannon Airport are mentioned in the latest tranche of information to be released.

Victim said she 'flew to Ireland for politicians and notable men'

The batch also includes an internal FBI email relating to claims by a woman that she was trafficked as a child and that she “flew to Ireland for politicians and notable men”.

She alleged that the men “would have sex with the young women and she was taken from Ireland and brought to Jeffrey Epstein’s island when she was 13 years old”.

This redacted photo released by the U.S. Department of Justice shows a desk, documented on July 6, 2019, during a search of Jeffrey Epstein's home in New York. Picture: US Department of Justice via AP

Another document details a boat trip, including several days in Ireland, with a list of expenses, initialled as approved by “JE”, in October 2007.

The files include “extensive” redactions, said Mr Blanche, given the law’s exceptions permitting certain documents to be blacked out, including identifying information of victims or materials related to active investigations.

US president Donald Trump, who was friends with Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s before they had a falling out years before Epstein’s first conviction, spent months resisting any release until both Democrats and Republicans in Congress forced his hand by passing a law.