A Manhattan federal judge rejected a petition by the Trump administration Monday to unseal grand jury documents in the case against deceased sex predator Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.
US District Judge Paul Engelmayer, a Barack Obama appointee, concluded that the government failed to make a compelling case for disclosure of the grand jury testimony, which typically remains sealed.
“The Government does not seek tailored disclosure of discrete items within a grand jury record,” Engelmayer wrote in his opinion.
Manhattan federal court judge Paul Engelmayer rejected a petition by the Trump administration Monday to unseal grand jury documents.
“Nor does it seek leave to disseminate grand jury materials to a specified audience. It seeks disclosure to the public at large of the entire proceedings before the Maxwell grand jury, subject only to redactions aimed at protecting privacy.”
