Judge grants Justice Department request to unseal records from Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case

NEW YORK AP Secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein s sex trafficking event can be made populace a judge ruled Wednesday joining two other judges in granting the Justice Department s requests to unseal material from investigations into the late financier s sexual abuse U S District Judge Richard M Berman reversed his earlier decision to keep the material under wraps citing a new law that requires the cabinet to open its files on Epstein and his longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell The judge previously cautioned that the or so pages of grand jury materials slated for release are hardly revelatory On Tuesday a different Manhattan federal judge ordered the release of records from Maxwell s sex trafficking episode Last week a judge in Florida approved the unsealing of transcripts from an abandoned Epstein federal grand jury inquiry in the s The Justice Department demanded the judges to lift secrecy orders after the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump last month created a narrow exception to rules that normally keep grand jury proceedings confidential