The Justice Department has begun the process of restoring tens of thousands of records tied to the federal investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein after officials acknowledged errors in their review and explained why a large batch of documents had been temporarily removed from the public archive.

A senior DOJ official said 47,635 files were taken offline for review from a larger batch of roughly 60,000 pages that the department pulled due to sensitive content that needed redactions.

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