Judge orders release of grand jury files in Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case

A third federal judge has authorized the release of sealed grand jury materials related to Jeffrey Epstein.

On Wednesday, Judge Richard M. Berman of the Southern District of New York granted the Justice Department’s request to unseal the grand jury record from Epstein’s 2019 federal sex-trafficking case. Berman had rejected similar efforts earlier this year under traditional grand jury secrecy rules, but said the newly enacted Epstein Files Transparency Act “supersedes the otherwise secret grand jury materials under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure.” In his August decision denying the release of the transcripts and exhibits, Berman warned that the materials “in the Epstein grand jury transcripts pales in comparison to the Epstein investigation information and materials in the hand of th