Epstein bill requires Florida judge release grand jury transcripts, Bondi says

The Justice Department is again asking a South Florida judge to unseal grand jury transcripts from the original federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, citing a bill passed this week by Congress directing the U.S. government to release all its case files involving the notorious sex trafficker.

“[T]he Department respectfully requests that the Court enter an order allowing the Department to publicly release the grand-jury materials in this case as well as lift any and all preexisting protective orders that would prevent the Department from complying with the Act,” states the motion, filed Friday with U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg.

The DOJ previously tried this summer to unseal the materials from the 2005 and 2007 grand jury proceedings, undertaken amid an investigation into whether Epstein was abusing young girls at his Palm Beach mansion. But Rosenberg rejected the request in July, noting that “the Court’s hands are tied” by the rules of grand jury secrecy — and that the government had failed to prove that the release of the material was necessary to address the intense public interest in the case.

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