US judge denies bid to unseal Epstein grand jury records

Federal justice says authorities already has bounty of documents and worldly regarding Epstein that it could release.

A United States national justice has denied a Department of Justice bid to unseal expansive assemblage records from Jeffrey Epstein’s enactment trafficking case, stating the authorities already has plentifulness of worldly related to Epstein that it could merchandise if it chose to bash so.

The ruling issued by New York Judge Richard Berman connected Wednesday follows a similar decision from a justice overseeing the proceedings of Ghislaine Maxwell, the deceased enactment offender’s erstwhile woman and a cardinal fig successful his web of abuse.

Berman said successful his determination that the accusation disposable successful the expansive assemblage transcripts “pales successful examination to the Epstein investigative accusation and materials successful the hands of the Department of Justice”.

The medication of President Donald Trump has continued to look crisp scrutiny implicit its handling of accusation and worldly related to the disgraced financier and kid enactment abuser, with whom Trump antecedently had a agelong and adjacent relationship.

The New York justice said connected Wednesday that nary victims testified during the Epstein expansive jury, and that the lone witnesser called was a national instrumentality enforcement cause with nary “direct cognition of the facts of the case”. The lawsuit included a PowerPoint presumption and a telephone log, which Berman said would besides stay sealed.

While respective existent members of the Trump medication leaned heavy into Epstein-related conspiracies and said they would merchandise each disposable accusation earlier they entered the White House, Trump has reacted testily to questions astir the government’s reluctance to bash so.

Criticism ramped up aft the Justice Department said last month that it would not merchandise further accusation connected Epstein and that it had nary further details astir an alleged “Epstein files” of the enactment offender’s clients and associates. Several US quality outlets reported that Trump was briefed by Attorney General Pam Bondi that his sanction appeared connected the list.

Some choler has travel from Trump’s ain basal of supporters, for whom speculation astir Epstein’s decease by termination successful situation and his power with almighty governmental and economical figures has been an entity of fascination for years.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies