WASHINGTON — A second federal judge in New York on Wednesday granted a U.S. Department of Justice request to unseal grand jury records in the case against Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail in 2019 awaiting federal trial on sex trafficking charges and whose case files have become a target of Congress and victims in recent months.

U.S. District Judge Richard Berman issued the order to unseal the secret grand jury material in the government’s 2019 sex trafficking case against the hedge fund manager and friend to celebrities and politicians.

Berman ruled one day after a separate federal judge in New York granted the government’s request to unseal grand jury material in the 2021 federal case against convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, who worked closely with Epstein to target minors for

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