The Justice Department on Friday released to Congress the first batch of files related to its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein to Congress, meeting its mandated deadline.

The department said it would not release all of the files at once but would be delivering several hundred thousand documents on Friday and then release more in the coming weeks. 

The deadline is because Congress passed a bill last month mandating the documents be made public within 30 days of the law's enactment, POLITICO reported. President Trump signed the bill into law on Nov. 19.

"In view of the Congressional deadline, all reasonable efforts have been made to review and redact personal information pertaining to victims, other private individuals, and protect sensitive materials from disclosure," the Justice Department said on a website containing the files. 

"Because of the volume of information involved, this website may nevertheless contain information that inadvertently includes non-public personally identifiable information or other sensitive content, to include matters of a sexual nature," it added.

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