Over 700,000 FBI and DOJ Man-Hours Spent on Epstein and Trump File Review: This Isn’t a Conspiracy Theory, It’s Your Tax Dollars, and You Deserve the Truth
I’m in shock!
I asked our firm's AI a simple question: run the numbers.
Here's what I told it.
Imagine you're an experienced FBI or DOJ investigator. You've worked the biggest cases. You've seen the darkest corners of the system. Now I want you to take a massive file dump and tell me how many hours it would have taken, best estimate, take to pull that kind of investigation off.
I told it that there are 100,000 records related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. That’s 300,000 pages. I want a breakdown of how many man hours it would take to investigate, compile, and produce all of that, based on real-world work using common practices during the time of 2003 to 2019. That means research, travel, interviews, statements, documentation, follow-up, and final reports. I wanted best estimates. I asked it to show its work.
And then I asked one more thing.
After all that, AG Pam Bondi pressured the FBI to assign 1,000 agents to dig back through those 100,000 records and search for one name: Donald Trump. The instructions were clear. Flag every reference. Page by page. Document by document.
The results it gave me blew my mind. Want to see what they were?
Keep reading.
Part 1 : Hours that likely went into creating the original 100,000 records (~300,000 pages)
Estimated total creation effort ~650,000 agent‑hours
In a team that averages 10,000 agent‑hours per year (five agents working full time), that equates to more than 65 agent‑years of labor.
Part 2 : Hours spent in March 2025 when 1 000 FBI staff were told to “flag” every Trump reference
And then I asked the big one. Based on the numbers, how many man-hours did it take when Pam Bondi ordered 1,000 FBI agents to go back through 100,000 records looking for one name, Donald Trump?
Buckle up, because if the first part didn’t rattle you, this will.
The AI ran two workable ways to size the effort give a useful range.
Here’s the truth.
Building the Epstein case wasn’t a weekend project. It took an estimated 650,000 agent-hours. That’s 65 years of full-time work, researching, traveling, interviewing, compiling, and documenting every disturbing detail. Think about that. A small army of federal agents working non-stop for over a decade just to build the file.
Then came the follow-up. After the fact, 1,000 FBI staff were pulled off other duties and ordered to comb through all 300,000 pages just to find every mention of Donald Trump. That review? It soaked up another 12,000 to 50,000 hours, depending on how much time was actually spent reviewing versus waiting on shifting instructions.
So if you’re wondering how deep this goes, or how seriously the government took it, now you know. This wasn’t minor. It was massive. And now that the numbers are in front of you, the real question is, why are we still being kept in the dark?
This isn’t some conspiracy theory. It’s real. Our tax dollars paid for this investigation, and we have every right to see what’s in those files. We’re not asking for favors, we’re demanding the truth.
Mitch Jackson, Esq. | links
The Overall Deviation is approximately ±12%
To calculate a reliable error deviation or margin of error for this analysis, we instructed the AI agent to assume the role of an expert in applied statistics, operations research, and quantitative analysis and to also be expert statistician, operations research analyst, forensic accountant, applied mathematician, and former FBI and DOJ investigator with experience in large-scale case modeling and time attribution.
Taking all factors into account, including the combination of lower-margin (interview, scanning) and higher-margin (post-investigation review) elements, the overall deviation of the 700,000+ man-hour estimate is approximately ±12% which means the actual total number of man hours could plausibly range between 616,000 and 784,000 hours, assuming no extreme outliers or missing categories.
Related: 1,000 Agents. 100,000 Files. 300,000 Pages. The FBI’s Midnight Scramble Over Epstein
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Great work Mitch! So, for me, and as you said, why was it hidden. Don't we expect that the work that is produced is shared with the American people so that we can deter these types of criminal activity. This has shaken my believe in all administrations, that it was known and purposefully hidden. So lawmakers sat in from of the camera and never mentioned it, created a case, a law, nothing--just sat on it. Every president--the same. They are hiding information we pay them to find and create laws that protects everyone. It is, as you say, our business. Something has got to be done about Trump's lawlessness, and yet no one will even try all the avenues open to them to remove a treasonous president. There is so much still undercover. I realize that our judiciary is a total mess and failure. I also see this as an opportunity to clean house, give citizens more access, reporters open doors, and fix everything. Pass laws and codify them. Why not? Little do I know, but it seems sensible.
We also ran a taxpayer cost analysis.
Between 2003 and 2017, the average hourly pay for FBI and DOJ agents or investigators involved in complex investigative work, such as the Epstein case, can be reasonably estimated based on General Schedule (GS) federal pay grades and typical overtime structures.
During this period of time, the average fully loaded hourly cost for an FBI or DOJ investigator working on a high-profile case like Epstein's was approximately $75 to $90 per hour. Applying that to the estimated 700,000 man-hours, the total taxpayer cost likely ranged between $52.5 million and $63 million.
We paid for this. We’re entitled to know the results.