Breaking: DOJ's 86-Page Prosecution Memo Vanishes After Press Inquiry (Copy Available)
The 86-Page Prosecution Memo That Included Details on “Potential Co-Conspirators” of Jeffrey Epstein
Jan 7, 2026, a Justice Department prosecution memo (EFTA02731082.pdf) related to Jeffrey Epstein disappeared from public view shortly after The Miami Herald asked about it. According to investigative journalist Julie Brown, the memo was an 86-page document that reportedly contained information about potential co-conspirators in Epstein’s crimes.
After the Miami Herald and other outlets began raising questions about why it was published — and what the allegations inside suggested — the Department of Justice removed it from its online Epstein Files library without clear explanation.
Screenshot of deleted memo document # EFTA02731082.pdf listing potential co-conspirators:
Subsection of memo document # EFTA00098757.PDF (6 pages still available as of 2/8/26)
If you would like to access the 86-page prosecution memo (Document # EFTA02731082.PDF) referenced above, as reported by the Miami Herald, you can view it through resources like: https://epstein.dugganusa.com/
Epsteins Inner Circle (EFTA00098757.PDF)
This development comes amid the DOJ’s broader effort to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, under which the government has released millions of pages of previously sealed records about Epstein’s sex trafficking network, his ties to powerful figures, and the federal investigation into his activities.
However, the release has been controversial and chaotic — critics say important files have been withheld, others were mistakenly published with victims’ personal information, and some are vanishing after scrutiny.
Advocates and victims’ attorneys argue that removing records like this memo only deepens mistrust about how thoroughly the government is exposing Epstein’s network and accountability for those who enabled or participated in his criminal activities.
Earlier today, I shared a video on TikTok where I walked through my own experience with this same issue, referencing a separate document explicitly naming Bill Clinton.
Here is the downloaded copy of EFTA00147661.pdf, which is also no longer available on the DOJ’s website.
The document referenced in my video was EFTA00147661.pdf. I downloaded it on February 5, 2026, and within 24 hours, it was no longer available.
According to reporting by the Miami Herald, journalists and researchers tracking the Epstein document releases have noticed a troubling pattern: records appearing briefly in official DOJ or court-linked repositories, only to disappear shortly after public attention is drawn to them. In some cases, these files contained material that referenced powerful individuals, timelines, or investigative angles that had not been previously acknowledged. No public explanation was provided for their removal.
What makes this particularly concerning is that the Miami Herald was instrumental in reopening the Epstein case in the first place. Their investigative work exposed how federal prosecutors quietly brokered Epstein’s original non-prosecution agreement and how that decision shielded potential co-conspirators from scrutiny for years. When the same outlet now reports vanishing documents during a so-called transparency effort, it raises serious questions about what “full disclosure” actually means.
If the government’s goal is transparency, documents should not disappear after researchers download them, cite them, or connect them to well-documented public figures. At best, this reflects gross negligence in how these files are being handled. At worst, it suggests selective disclosure — transparency with guardrails, where certain names, connections, or implications are still considered untouchable.
This is why archiving matters. This is why independent researchers matter. And this is why people paying close attention are starting to ask whether the Epstein files are being released to inform the public — or to control the narrative.
Because when documents vanish after being named, downloaded, and discussed publicly, it doesn’t quiet questions.
It multiplies them.
Resources & Documents
If you would like to access the 86-page prosecution memo (Document # EFTA02731082.PDF) referenced above, as reported by the Miami Herald, you can view it through resources like:
https://epstein.dugganusa.com/
This is a searchable database built for journalists that claims to have indexed every document released in the DOJ’s Epstein files. All records are searchable instantly through a free, public API — no paywall, no login, just data. When documents disappear from the DOJ’s website, this is where you can go to look for them.
DugganUSA.com Link: analytics.dugganusa.com/epstein/
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Highlighted Documents - DugganUSA.com
Internal DOJ Memos (Dataset 12)
**EFTA02731082** - Co-conspirators investigation memo (Dec 19, 2019) - “analyzes the extent to which certain of Epstein’s associates and employees may or may not be criminally liable”xa
**EFTA02731039** - Original prosecution memo seeking Epstein charges (June 11, 2019)
**EFTA02730996** - Dechert LLP investigation into Leon Black - $158M+ documented payments
Political Connections
**EFTA00027289** - SDNY internal email: “a number of text messages between Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein on Bannon’s iPhone 7”
**EFTA00030998** - “Image of Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell on Bannon’s phone” found during forensic review
**EFTA00019103** - Legal complaint: 14-year-old introduced to Trump at Mar-a-Lago, “This is a good one, right?”
**EFTA00028715** - Trump flew 8+ times on Epstein’s jet (1993-1996), one flight with just Trump and Epstein
**EFTA00030187** - “Calendar girl” party at Mar-a-Lago with 28 women
**EFTA00020515** - FBI tip alleging Howard Lutnick (now Commerce Secretary) financial connection to Epstein
Financial Flows (Deutsche Bank Wire Exhibits)
**DB-SDNY-0004924** - $4.45M+ to Valar Ventures (Peter Thiel)
**DB-SDNY-0008151** - $10M to Honeycomb Ventures (Steve Cohen)
**DB-SDNY-0005122** - $10M wire from Rothschild Geneva
**DB-SDNY-0003972** - $250K+ to Joichi Ito
**DB-SDNY-0007748** - $500K via Coatue Management (Philippe Laffont)
Other Epstein Resources
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/ (flight logs & more)
https://epstein-docs.github.io/ (documents)
https://epsteinsecrets.com/network (documents)
https://www.jmail.world/ (emails)
Thank you for following me and sharing. I love to see things that we are covering start to go mainstream like Lutnick and Leon Black. Did you see the YOUNG TURKS did an 18 minute video covering our 16 year old autistic special girl, who had the baby girls and abortion(s)?
The problem…
DOJ has purposely removed what looks to be every other page within the documents they provided. That’s why the information is so fragmented.
Additionally, they provided emails that look like there was a cohesive chain of the conversations, but it appears that pieces of the conversation were deleted as well as the date stamps which is always imprinted onto the email.