Justice Department renews bid to unseal Jeffrey Epstein grand jury supplies | EUROtoday

The Justice Department has as soon as once more requested a decide to unseal Jeffrey Epstein intercourse trafficking grand jury supplies.

The DOJ mentioned Monday that Congress made clear in approving the discharge of investigative supplies associated to the prosecution of the late financier that paperwork such because the court docket data must be launched.

U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton signed the submission in Manhattan federal court docket asking that the decide difficulty an expedited ruling permitting the supplies to be launched now that President Donald Trump signed the motion requiring the discharge of paperwork associated to Epstein inside 30 days.

The Justice Department mentioned the Congressional motion overrode present legislation in a approach that allows the unsealing of the grand jury data.

Judge Richard Berman beforehand denied a Trump administration request to make the Epstein grand jury transcripts public.

Berman, who presided over Epstein’s 2019 case, dominated in August {that a} “significant and compelling reason” to disclaim the request and hold the transcripts sealed was that info contained within the transcripts “pales in comparison” to investigative info and supplies already within the Justice Department’s possession.

Berman wrote that the federal government’s 100,000 pages of Epstein recordsdata and supplies “dwarf the 70 odd pages of Epstein grand jury materials” and that the grand jury testimony “is merely a hearsay snippet of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged conduct.”

Two different judges have additionally denied the general public launch of fabric from investigations into Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse of younger ladies and women.

The Justice Department has mentioned that the one witness to testify earlier than the Epstein grand jury was an FBI agent who, the decide famous, “had no direct knowledge of the facts of the case and whose testimony was mostly hearsay.”

The agent testified on June 18, 2019, and July 2, 2019. The remainder of the grand jury presentation consisted of a PowerPoint slideshow and a name log. The July 2 session ended with grand jurors voting to indict Epstein.

Epstein was arrested on July 6, 2019. He was discovered useless in his cell at a Manhattan federal jail on Aug. 10, 2019 in what authorities have dominated a suicide.