WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday released a substantial new collection of records tied to its investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted sex offender whose 2019 death in federal custody sparked years of controversy.

The disclosure includes roughly 29,000 pages of documents and dozens of video clips, many of them heavily redacted, according to materials made public by the department. Some of the videos appear to have been recorded inside a federal jail. Epstein was found dead in a New York detention facility in 2019 in what authorities described as an apparent suicide.

The release comes days after the Trump administration published earlier batches of Epstein-related files as part of an effort to comply with a newly enacted federal transparency law. That law, passed overwhelmingly by Congress last month, requires the disclosure of all government records related to Epstein, despite months of resistance from former President Donald Trump to keep them sealed.

Earlier releases on Friday and Saturday drew criticism from some Republican lawmakers due to extensive redactions, doing little to ease political fallout surrounding the case as the party looks ahead to the 2026 midterm elections.