Judge denies DOJ request to unseal Jeffrey Epstein grand jury transcripts in Florida
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Source: NBC News
WASHINGTON A federal judge in Florida ruled Wednesday that its "hands are tied" in releasing federal grand jury transcripts from 2005 and 2007 in connection with an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
The ruling was separate from a request that the Justice Department has pending related to a grand jury in the Southern District of New York, where Epstein was ultimately indicted. Epstein died in 2019 while awaiting trial in New York. His accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in 2021 and is now serving a 20-year sentence.
In the Florida case, U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg said that, though the government believes special circumstances exist and the policy reasons for grand jury secrecy have expired, its rationale "are no exceptions" to grand jury secrecy.
The New York Times was first to report on the ruling.
The government, Rosenberg wrote, "has effectively conceded that the Court's hands are tied" because of a binding precedent by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/judge-denies-doj-request-unseal-jeffrey-epstein-grand-jury-transcripts-rcna220607

Lovie777
(19,474 posts)DOJ acting very suspicious.
Attilatheblond
(6,779 posts)Grand Jury testimony would not be the whole story. It's an attempt to CYA for Bondi & The Felon.
Mz Pip
(28,174 posts)Judges are not going to release Grand Jury files. Secret means secret.
I suspect Trump knew this so he knew hed be safe requesting they be released.
ancianita
(41,183 posts)they've paid attention to the news, they won't be fooled, and he can't make this go away.