US EditionJudge grants Justice Department request to unseal records from Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case
A new law mandates unsealing grand jury files on Epstein and Maxwell, with around 70 pages set for release, following Justice Department requests to lift secrecy.
- On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman ruled that secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case can be made public, reversing his earlier decision.
- After the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed, the Justice Department requested lifting secrecy orders since the law, signed by President Donald Trump last month, created a narrow exception to grand jury confidentiality.
- The court limited how the 70 pages of grand jury materials may be shared, and the judge cautioned they are hardly revelatory.
- Joining other rulings, the judge's order adds to a series of unsealing orders that include a Tuesday Manhattan federal judge's release of Ghislaine Maxwell's 2021 records and last week's Florida judge approval to unseal transcripts from an abandoned 2000s grand jury probe.
- Citing a new law, the judge said the government must open files on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, reversing an earlier secrecy order.
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Another judge clears the way to release Epstein files
A third federal judge has cleared the way for the release of additional files related to Jeffrey Epstein.U.S. District Judge Richard Berman issued a four-page ruling Wednesday to order the unsealing of grand jury materials, investigative records, documents and communications gathered in a 2019 inves...
Judge grants DOJ request to unseal Epstein sex trafficking case records
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 sex-trafficking case can be unsealed. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman of the Southern District of New York, in a four-page decision, cited a law passed last month requiring the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release files related to the late convicted sex [...]
Washington.- A judge granted Wednesday the last request of the Department of Justice to make public the records of the federal grand jury's investigation into the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein following a new law requiring the department to publish all its Epstein files before December 19. Judge Richard Berman's decision of the Manhattan Federal District Court occurred one day after another judge granted a similar request in the case of Ghislaine…
Federal Judge Orders Release of 2019 Jeffrey Epstein Grand Jury Records
A federal judge in New York on Wednesday ordered the release of grand jury materials of the 2019 federal investigation and case against deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, weeks after the passage of a congressional measure requiring the disclosure of those documents. Federal judges in two other cases have already ordered the unsealing of materials related to Ghislaine Maxwell, a former accused Epstein accomplice, and an earlier case against E…
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