"NEW YORK -- A federal judge on Tuesday granted the Justice Department's request to publicly release grand jury transcripts and other material from Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking case, citing a new law that requires the government to open its files on Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime confidant, but he cautioned that people shouldn't expect to learn much new information from them."
"Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, who along with other judges had previously rejected Justice Department unsealing requests before the transparency law was passed, said the materials "do not identify any person other than Epstein and Maxwell as having had sexual contact with a minor." "They do not discuss or identify any client of Epstein's or Maxwell's," Engelmayer wrote. "They do not reveal any heretofore unknown means or methods of Epstein's or Maxwell's crimes.""
"The law, signed by President Donald Trump after months of public and political pressure, requires the Justice Department to provide the public with Epstein-related records by Dec. 19. The fate of the government's Epstein files has dominated the first year of Trump's second term in office. The Republican campaigned for reelection last year on a promise to release the files, and his administration did disclose some records earlier this year - almost all of them already public - but suddenly stopped in"
A federal judge granted the Justice Department's request to publicly release grand jury transcripts and other material from Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking case under a new transparency law. The judge said the materials do not identify any person other than Epstein and Maxwell as having had sexual contact with a minor, do not discuss or identify any client of Epstein's or Maxwell's, and do not reveal heretofore unknown means or methods of their crimes. The judge cautioned that the records are unlikely to yield much new information. The law requires release of Epstein-related records by Dec. 19. A Florida judge recently ordered release of transcripts from an abandoned Epstein federal grand jury probe. A request to unseal records from Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case remains pending. The law was signed by President Donald Trump after months of public and political pressure.
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