Judge Denies Doj Request To Unseal Jeffrey Epstein Grand Jury Transcripts In Florida

WASHINGTON — A national judge successful Florida ruled Wednesday that its "hands are tied" successful releasing federal expansive assemblage transcripts from 2005 and 2007 successful relationship pinch an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

The ruling was abstracted from a petition that nan Justice Department has pending related to a expansive assemblage successful nan Southern District of New York, wherever Epstein was yet indicted. Epstein died by termination successful 2019 while awaiting proceedings successful New York. His accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted successful 2021 and is now serving a 20-year sentence.

In nan Florida case, U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg said that, though nan authorities believes typical circumstances beryllium and nan argumentation reasons for expansive assemblage secrecy person expired, its rationale "are nary exceptions" to expansive assemblage secrecy.

The government, Rosenberg wrote, "has efficaciously conceded that nan Court's hands are tied" because of nan Eleventh Circuit law.