President Trump and AG Pam Bondi just asked a federal court in Florida to release EPSTEIN TRANSCRIPTS that are currently sealed

A federal judge in Florida on Friday ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from the federal sex trafficking cases of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith said a recently passed federal law ordering the release of records related to the cases overrode a federal rule prohibiting the release of matters before a grand jury.

The law signed last month by President Donald Trump compels the Justice Department, FBI and federal prosecutors to release later this month the vast troves of material they have amassed during investigations into Epstein.

When the documents will be released is unknown. The government had asked the court for permission to include the usually secret grand jury records in the files they are required to make public under the new federal law, known as the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The Justice Department hasn’t set a timetable for when it plans to start releasing information, but the law set a deadline of Dec. 19.

 

NY federal judge unseals Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury docs to comply with Epstein files transparency act​


A New York judge has unsealed the grand jury materials as well as other documents in relation to the prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The move comes as the Trump administration has been pushing to release more of the documents related to Epstein.

The ruling from Judge Paul Engelmayer stems from a request to release the files from the Department of Justice, per court documents. The move is meant to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which has mandated the release of documents related to the case.

“The Act does not explicitly refer to grand jury materials. The Court nonetheless holds — again in agreement with DOJ — that the Act textually covers the grand jury materials in this case,” Judge Paul Engelmayer said in the order to unseal the grand jury documents.

The order from the judge allows the DOJ to publicly disclose grand jury transcripts, exhibits, as well as other documents in materials from Maxwell's criminal trial. The order from Engelmayer also puts into place "a mechanism to protect victims from the inadvertent release of materials within the discovery in this case that would identify them or otherwise invade their privacy."

 
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