Judge unseals Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury materials, citing Epstein files act

A New York national justice connected Tuesday ordered the unsealing of expansive assemblage materials related to the prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite convicted of acting arsenic the notorious enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein's procurer.

Judge Paul Engelmayer's bid successful the U.S. District Court successful Manhattan came astatine the petition of the Department of Justice, which cited the precocious passed Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Grand assemblage materials usually are permanently sealed.

Engelmayer, successful his order, wrote, "The Act does not explicitly notation to expansive assemblage materials. The Court nevertheless holds — again successful statement with DOJ — that the Act textually covers the expansive assemblage materials successful this case."

Englemayer authorized the disclosure of expansive assemblage transcripts and exhibits, arsenic good arsenic extended worldly that national prosecutors disclosed to Maxwell's defence attorneys for her 2021 transgression trial.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year situation word for her condemnation for procuring underage girls to beryllium sexually abused by Epstein.

Congress past period overwhelmingly passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, mandating the disclosure of worldly held by the DOJ successful transportation with its investigations of Epstein.

Epstein, who was a erstwhile person of President Donald Trump, committed termination successful a Manhattan national jailhouse successful August 2019, weeks aft being arrested connected kid enactment trafficking charges.

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