US EditionJudge denies Justice Department request to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts
Judge Richard Berman cited grand jury secrecy rules to deny the Justice Department's request to release transcripts from Epstein's sex trafficking case.
- A federal judge in New York denied the government's request to unseal grand jury transcripts from the case against the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
- The judge ruled that the grand jury testimony consisted only of hearsay from an FBI agent with no direct knowledge of the case.
- The judge stated that the Department of Justice possesses more comprehensive information on the Epstein case and should release it rather than the limited grand jury transcripts.
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The Independent
The Independent (US)Judge shoots down Trump DOJ bid to unseal Epstein grand jury notes as ‘diversion’
Grand jury transcript material ‘pales in comparison’ to documents the Justice Department already has and could publicly release, Judge Richard Berman says
US judge denies government request to release Epstein grand jury transcripts
District Judge Richard Berman noted that the government holds a trove of Epstein investigation materials that it promised in February it would release to the public before abruptly announcing that it would not do so: 'The Government's 100,000 pages of Epstein files and materials dwarf the 70 odd pages of Epstein grand jury materials.'
Federal Judge Declines To Release Epstein Grand Jury Materials at Justice Department’s Request, Calling It a ‘Diversion’
The jurist says Attorney General Bondi’s desire to be transparent can be satisfied by releasing the records she already has in her possession.
The judge in the Jeffrey Epstein case has denied a request to release testimony in that case, a request made by President Trump's administration. According to the federal judge in New York, the testimony before the grand jury, concerning allegations of years of sexual abuse and human trafficking, contains far less information about Epstein than the US Department of Justice itself possesses. "The government is the logical party to disclose the ex…
A federal judge in New York has dismissed on Wednesday a new request from the government of Donald Trump to make known the secret material of the grand jury that analyzed the case of tycoon Jeffrey Epstein , accused of sexual crimes and died in prison in 2019, according to the EP agency. This is the third unsuccessful attempt by the Administration, which had asked the Department of Justice to publish some of these reserved information, in line w…
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