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The Justice Department has withheld thousands of documents from the Epstein files, including FBI documents that detailed a woman’s unverified allegations of sexual misconduct against President Trump, according to a review by The Wall Street Journal.

After a Journal analysis identified more than 40,000 files that appeared to be missing from documents posted to the DOJ’s website, a Justice Department spokeswoman said that “47,635 files were offline for further review and should be ready for re-production by the end of the week.”

The withheld files included Federal Bureau of Investigation notes documenting a series of interviews the woman gave to agents in 2019 in which she alleged sexual misconduct by Trump and Jeffrey Epstein when she was a minor in the 1980s, according to copies of the documents reviewed by the Journal. Trump has denied wrongdoing and said the Epstein files “totally exonerated” him.

Those documents are similar to many witness statements with unverified claims that were released by the government in January, raising questions about why they weren’t included with the millions of files made public. The Justice Department was required to release to the public such witness statements, under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.