Judge won’t unseal Jeffrey Epstein grand jury transcripts in Florida

A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by the Trump administration to unseal the transcripts of grand jury proceedings related to a criminal investigation of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in Florida in the mid-2000s.

The ruling does not affect two other pending requests by the Department of Justice that seek to obtain transcripts of grand jury proceedings related to later federal investigations of Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, in New York, both of which led to separate criminal indictments of them.

The Trump administration filed petitions to unseal transcripts of the multiple grand jury proceedings last week, after weeks of criticism of the DOJ’s decision to withhold from the public investigative evidence about Epstein despite earlier promises it would be released.

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