Dec. 31 (UPI) — The Justice Department is currently reviewing an additional 5.2 million pages of Jeffrey Epstein’s files, which must be made public under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

The DOJ said it is tasking 400 attorneys with reviewing the records, reviewing them and making required redactions before they are made available to the general public, NBC News reported. The exam is likely to be conducted from Monday to January 20.

“This is truly a crowdsourced approach, and we are asking as many attorneys as possible to dedicate their time to reviewing the remaining documents,” Assistant Attorney General Todd Blanche said in an article on X on Wednesday.

“The redactions necessary to protect victims take time, but they will not prevent the release of these documents,” Blanche said. “The goal of the Attorney General and this administration is simple: transparency and protection of victims.”

The DOJ is instructing its lawyers and those from the FBI, the Southern District of Florida and the Southern District of New York to review the records before their release, according to The Hill.

Three batches of files totaling hundreds of thousands of pages have been released and can be searched and downloaded online at the DOJ’s Epstein Library.

The DOJ warns library visitors that some content contains descriptions of sexual assault and may not be suitable for everyone.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act required the DOJ to release all records in the federal case against financier Jeffrey Epstein by December 19, but the volume of documents and the need to review each for content and redactions delayed full release.

DOJ officials announced on December 24 that their attorneys were “working around the clock to review and make legally required redactions to protect victims,” but the number of records was an underestimate.

The resulting backlog is further complicated by the discovery of 5.2 million records that still need to be reviewed and redacted.

Delays in releasing all files within the federal government’s required timeframe have led Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., to consider holding Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt.

Khanna and Massie co-sponsored the bill that became the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Epstein was a convicted sex offender who hanged himself while imprisoned in Manhattan and awaiting trial on federal charges accusing him of sex trafficking of minors.

His longtime assistant and former companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted of related federal charges in 2021 and is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence.

She was convicted of sex trafficking of a minor, transportation of a minor for illegal sexual activity and three counts of conspiracy.

Some businesses experienced power outages in Edinburgh’s Old Town on Tuesday, which SP Energy Networks said was due to an “intermittent outage”, followed by a further “power outage” in the morning at Hogmanay.

Around 30 restaurants and bars in the area have been “crippled” by a significant loss of Christmas trade due to persistent grid energy outages, according to a spokesperson for Grassmarket Hospitality Operators.

It warns that power outages risk reputational damage and “indicate systemic vulnerabilities that require an urgent and permanent solution.”

Paul Lawrence, chief executive of the City of Edinburgh Council, and Culture Secretary Angus Robertson were briefed and copied in an email from the operators group.

Louise MacLean, business development director at Signature Group, which has sites across Scotland, said: “Businesses in Grassmarket have reported repeated power losses, but the long-standing problem remains unresolved.

“Some hospitality venues also experienced power outages several times a day over the festive period, plunging the Christmas trade into the dark.

“Over the course of just one weekend in December, Grassmarket businesses lost their entire Friday evening service and their entire Saturday lunchtime service, meaning thousands of pounds in lost revenue across several hospitality venues.

“Meanwhile, business costs remain. Staff still need to be paid for power back-up, food waste and lost bookings.”

In a letter to SP Energy Networks chief executive Nicola Connelly, the hotel collective warned of its “deep concern regarding repeated power outages occurring over the Christmas periods from 2021 to 2025”.

It said: “These disruptions have had a significant impact on our operations, customer experience, visitor experience and the overall reputation of the business and the city.

“We have been informed that SPEN may have to cut supplies again tomorrow (Hogmanay).

“This compromises our business and Edinburgh’s reputation as the ultimate Hogmanay destination… These repeated failures have resulted in substantial financial loss, property damage and reputational damage during peak periods.

“It also has an impact on Edinburgh’s reputation.”

The energy company has committed to making staff available during Hogmanay in the event of further outages.

A spokesperson said: “We are experiencing intermittent issues with the power supply in the Grassmarket area of ​​Edinburgh and would like to reassure all customers and businesses that we are doing all we can to resolve the issue as quickly as possible ahead of the Hogmanay celebrations which begin later.

“Yesterday’s outages were the result of a low voltage protection fuse operating due to an intermittent fault, which caused customers to be shut down for an hour in the afternoon, between approximately 3pm and 5pm, and again from 6pm to 8pm.

“We are fully aware of the impact this will have caused at such a busy time of year, and we apologize for any inconvenience caused.”

“The power went out again mid-morning today and we are currently on site working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.

“Our staff have been going door to door at the Grassmarket to reassure customers that we are doing everything we can to ensure there is no further disruption today.

“We will also have additional staff on standby tonight between the bells and into the early hours.

“We look forward to meeting with all relevant groups in the new year to discuss our investment plans to strengthen the network and mitigate any disruption in the future.”

The Queen was praised by the UK’s special envoy for women and girls for speaking out about her attack on a train when she was a teenager.

Camilla recalled on a radio show being “so angry” and “furious” when she was attacked, while in conversation with John Hunt and his daughter Amy, whose family were murdered at their home last year, and former prime minister Baroness Theresa May.

Speaking to Sarah Montague on BBC Radio 4’s World at One, Baroness Harman described the Queen speaking about her experience of assault as “so important”.

Louise Hunt, 25, her sister Hannah Hunt, 28, and their mother Carol Hunt, 61, were killed by Kyle Clifford, 27 – Louise’s ex-partner – in a quiet cul-de-sac in Bushey, Hertfordshire, on July 9 last year.

Camilla said in the recording, broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I remember something that had been hiding in the back of my brain for a very long time, that when I was a teenager I was attacked on a train, and I had sort of forgotten about it, but I remember at the time I was so angry. It was anger.”

She added: “Someone I didn’t know. I was reading my book, and you know, this boy, dude, attacked me, and I fought back.

“And I remember getting off the train and my mother looked at me and said, ‘Why does your hair stand up?’ and “Why is there a button missing on your coat?” “.

“But I remember the anger, and I was so furious about it, and it was sort of hidden for many years.

“And I think, you know, when the whole subject of domestic violence comes up and all of a sudden you hear a story like John and Amy’s, it’s something that’s very close to my heart.”

After hearing the Queen tell the story, Amy Hunt said: “Thank you first of all for sharing this story, Your Majesty, because it takes a lot of time to share these things, because every woman has a story.”

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s World at One, Baroness Harman said: “In the past, when a woman was killed by her husband or partner, the consensus was that she must have caused it herself and the women’s movement opposed this argument.

“We’re now seeing a new form of this argument emerging among people like Andrew Tate and on social media, a new kind of toxic masculinity that basically says that men are struggling with their identities and that the fault lies with women, because women’s progress has undermined men’s sense of self and that sometimes pushes them to resort to violence.”

She spoke of her own experiences saying: “It happened to me at work, it happened to me at university, it happened to me as a young girl traveling to London and as a young girl going to the cinema, for so long there has been a feeling that nothing can be done, no action will be taken, I will be blamed, I will be told that I caused it myself.” »

Asked if there was a difference in generational attitude, with younger women and girls being more able to express themselves than older generations, she said: “I think the attitudes of women and girls have changed enormously, but the important thing is to move from those strong attitudes to actual reality and although I think the argument has been won to a large extent, the reality has remained the same. »

On the feasibility of the government’s plan to halve violence against women and girls, she said: “There’s nothing inevitable that says it’s just one of those things and nothing can be done about it… I think it’s up to all of us not to stand back and criticize, but to play our part.”

The incident involving the Queen was first recounted in the book Power And The Palace: The Inside Story Of The Monarchy And 10 Downing Street by Valentine Low, a former royal reporter for The Times newspaper.

Camilla did “what my mother taught me” and took off her shoe to fend off the man while on her way to London’s Paddington Station in the early 1960s, aged 16 or 17, it was previously reported.

In Power And The Palace, Boris Johnson’s former communications director Guto Harri recalls Mr Johnson telling him about meeting the Queen at her official London residence, Clarence House, around 2008, the year the politician was first elected Mayor of London.

In the extract, published in the Sunday Times earlier this year, Mr Harri said of the couple: “They obviously got on like a house on fire. He (Mr Johnson) was making guttural noises about how much he admired and loved her.”

Mr Harri then spoke about a conversation between Camilla and Mr Johnson, about an assault she said happened when she was a schoolgirl.

“She was on a train going to Paddington – she was about 16, 17 – and a guy was moving his hand further and further away…”

Mr Harri said that after Mr Johnson asked her what she did next, Camilla replied: “I did what my mother taught me. I took off my shoe and kicked his nuts with my heel.

“She was confident enough when they got to Paddington to jump off the train, find a guy in uniform and say, ‘This man has just attacked me,’ and he was arrested.”

The Queen has visited sexual assault centers in the UK and abroad, held receptions for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence and spoken out on the issue, but her experience as a teenager has not been the main driver of her work, but rather the stories of women who have suffered assault.