A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday opened the door to the public release of grand jury materials from the case against Ghislaine Maxwell.

Judge Paul A. Engelmayer agreed to the government’s request to make public a large set of records from the Maxwell case – a cache of transcripts, exhibits, and related materials that could run into the hundreds of thousands of pages and has never been released before. The move follows a similar decision last week by a federal judge in Florida, who allowed the release of grand jury records from an earlier, abandoned investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime confidante, was convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking a minor and related charges and is serving a 20-year sentence.

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