The FBI tweeted out a link to the Epstein files Thursday afternoon. Eight pdf's containing heavily redacted affidavits, subpoenas, and other documents pertaining to his legal troubles. There is some information in the documents related to sexual battery and prostitution investigations but nothing that was previously unknown to the public.

The files are so heavily redacted that they are of little value. https://vault.fbi.gov/jeffrey-epstein

The Miami Herald is seeking to unseal documents pertaining to a court case involving Epstein. Julie Brown, an investigative journalist for the Herald, requested the court unseal all of the documents that have been filed under seal or redacted. https://bigleaguepolitics.com/fbi-releases-heavily-redacted-reports-on-jeffrey-epstein/

A reddit posting about the files reads: "read through all of them. 3,877 pages were deleted outright. 197 pages were made available. Just over half of this was news releases. About a tenth of the pages are blank sheets. Not one page pertaining to the case was left containing any kind of information that would be useful. Nothing was left unredacted - addresses, dstes, etc. All deletions were listed in the archive as a list of pages redacted in the format.

Most documents were redacted under 3, 6, 7(c) and 7(d) of the FOIA. Exemption 3 allows the FBI to redact information provided "in confidentialty" with no other particular reason required. Additionally, the documents that were deleted outright had to contain some information not under FOIA provisions 6, 7(c) and 7(d) - but they were deleted anyway." https://amp.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/8lvts7/why_the_fbi_archive_release_of_the_epstein_file/

The FOIA is a joke.