New York judge orders release of Jeffrey Epstein grand jury records from 2019 case

A federal judge in New York on Wednesday granted the Justice Department’s request to unseal grand jury records in Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case

A federal judge in New York on Wednesday granted the Justice Department’s request to unseal grand jury records in Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case.

The move comes a day after a separate judge ordered the release of grand jury records related to Ghislaine Maxwell.

In his order, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman cited the law that Congress passed last month that required the DOJ to release all of its records related to Epstein, calling the act’s language “clear.”

“The Court hereby grants the Government’s motion in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act and with the unequivocal right of Epstein victims to have their identity and privacy protected,” he wrote in the four-page ruling.

He explained that he agreed with attorneys for Epstein survivors, who he said wrote to the court to say that disclosure “CANNOT come at the expense of the privacy, safety, and protection of sexual abuse and sex trafficking victims.”