Un-redacted text from released documents began circulating on social media on Monday evening

Un-redacted text from released documents began circulating on social media on Monday evening

People examining documents released by the Department of Justice in the Jeffrey Epstein case discovered that some of the file redaction can be undone with Photoshop techniques, or by simply highlighting text to paste into a word processing file.

Un-redacted text from these documents began circulating through social media on Monday evening. An exhibit in a civil case in the Virgin Islands against Darren K Indyke and Richard D Kahn, two executors of Epstein’s estate, contains redacted allegations explaining how Epstein and his associates had facilitated the sexual abuse of children. The exhibit was part of the second amended complaint in the state case against Indyke and Kahn.

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
    262·
    1 day ago

    Don’t underestimate how important this particular screw up is: It means that there’s now publicly available proof that they redacted information in a manner that violates the law, and that it can enter the conversation while the Epstein files still have the public attention, rather than months or years later.

    • tym@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 hours ago

      They redacted info about epstein’s lawyer (who now works for kegsbreth via private sector according to a lemmy sleuth in the thread about this the other day) that would lead to a RICO case in a sane world.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      341·
      13 hours ago

      Can’t wait for the Supreme Court to decide in 10 years that releasing a document with ineffective redactions means the document was not technically redacted, so no laws were violated.

      • smeenz@lemmy.nz
        171·
        14 hours ago

        … while simultaneously ruling that the information that was supposed to have been redacted can not be used because they say so.

    • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
      411·
      23 hours ago

      We’re founding a committee to oversee discussions about how to consider moving forward with this. Action will be taken at a faster rate than usual compared to usual congressional processes. This legislative action is expected to take place in 2047 once deliberations are complete.