New York: Secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case can be made public, a judge ruled on Wednesday, joining two other judges in granting the Justice Department’s requests to unseal material from investigations into the late financier’s sexual abuse.

US District Judge Richard M Berman reversed his earlier decision to keep the material confidential, citing a new law that requires the government to open its files on Epstein and his longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell. The judge had previously cautioned that the approximately 70 pages of grand jury materials slated for release are not particularly revelatory.

What other courts have done

On Tuesday, a different Manhattan federal judge ordered the release of records from Maxwell’s 2021 sex trafficking c

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