3rd judge grants DOJ motion to unseal grand jury materials from Epstein files

The federal judge who presided over the 2019 criminal case against convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein has become the third judge to grant a Justice Department motion to unseal grand jury materials and other undisclosed evidence from the government's investigative files. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman of the Southern District of New York issued a four-page order Wednesday that determined that Congress -- in passing the Epstein Files Transparency Act last month -- clearly indicated that the materials from his criminal case should be publicly disclosed and that traditional rules of grand jury secrecy were overridden by the act. "The 'plain language' of the Epstein Files Transparency Act unequivocally intends to make public Epstein grand jury materials and discovery materials covered b