A federal choose in New York on Wednesday denied the Justice Division’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts and reveals within the Jeffrey Epstein case.
U.S. District Decide Richard Berman discovered the federal government had not reached the excessive bar essential to unseal the transcripts – and steered there was not a lot there anyway.
“A big and compelling cause to reject the Authorities’s place on this litigation is that the Authorities has already undertaken a complete investigation into the Epstein case and, not surprisingly, has assembled a ‘trove’ of Epstein paperwork, interviews and reveals,” Berman wrote.
“The federal government’s 100,000 pages of Epstein recordsdata and supplies dwarf the 70 odd pages of Epstein grand jury supplies,” the ruling mentioned, including the federal government’s movement “seems to be a ‘diversion’ from the breadth and scope of the Epstein recordsdata within the Authorities’s possession.”
The grand jury testimony, the choose mentioned, is “a rumour snippet of Jeffrey Epstein’s conduct” delivered by an “FBI agent who had no direct information of the info of the case.”
Two different judges have additionally denied the Justice Division’s bid to unseal grand jury data – one involving an earlier case in Florida and the opposite within the case involving Epstein’s confederate, Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Home Oversight Committee has subpoenaed the DOJ for the investigative file, and the division has mentioned it can start turning paperwork over to the committee on Friday.
