Person
Merrick Garland
U.S. Attorney General under President Joe Biden.
- head of U.S. Department of Justice (Attorney General) 2021–2025
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- U.S. Department of Justice 2021–2025 Attorney General Scholarship & press 1
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House Oversight inquiry into Epstein
wrote to the committee that he recalled no update on Epstein or Maxwell as Attorney General
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PolitiFact wrote in July 2025 that the Biden administration did not publicly release any files from the investigations, though judges unsealed court records while it was in office. The sources read do not say what the department did with the files from 2021 to 2025.
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- 2021–2025 Merrick Garland head of U.S. Department of Justice
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Holder and Garland deny knowledge of Epstein files in letters to House Oversight Committee, Washington Examiner (The Gazette copy), 1 Oct 2025.
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Garland served as attorney general under the Biden administration.
Although I cannot rule out that I ever received a status update on matters pertaining to Mr. Epstein or Ms. Maxwell in my role as Attorney General, I do not recall any such update or any other kind of report,
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Trump blames Epstein files on Democrats and Comey but the timeline tells a different story, PolitiFact (Poynter copy), 21 Jul 2025.
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The Biden administration did not publicly release any files related to the investigations into Epstein, but federal judges unsealed several troves of court documents from previously settled civil cases while Biden was in office.
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Fact check: Did Democrats take action over Epstein case transparency?, PolitiFact (Al Jazeera copy), 6 Aug 2025.
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After Biden took office in 2021, Democrats appeared to dial back their public calls for Epstein records’ release.
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