Judge grants DOJ motion to release grand jury materials from Ghislaine Maxwell case

A federal judge on Tuesday granted the Justice Department's motion to release grand jury materials and other nonpublic evidence from the criminal case of Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in order to comply with Congress' directive to publicly release materials from the government's files on the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer determined in his 24-page order that the Epstein Transparency Act , passed last month, "unambiguously applies" to the discovery materials provided by prosecutors to Maxwell's defense team in connection with her criminal trial. The ruling grants the Trump administration's request to modify the protective order in the case to allow for the Justice Department to pu