A New York federal judge on Tuesday ordered the unsealing of grand jury materials and other documents related to the prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell , the British socialite convicted in 2021 of procuring underage girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein .

Judge Paul Engelmayer's order came at the request of the Department of Justice , which cited the Epstein Files Transparency Act that Congress passed last month.

The ruling comes several days after another federal judge, in Florida, ordered that grand jury investigative material from probes of Epstein in 2005 and 2007 be unsealed because of the act.

The act mandates that the DOJ disclose investigative material about Epstein, a former friend of President Donald Trump who killed himself in jail in August 2019, weeks aft

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