A federal judge in New York has denied the motion of the Trump administration to reveal the testimony of the Grand Jury of the Criminal Case against Jeffrey Epstein Associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Trump Administration has been looking to publish materials related to Epstein research, the rich financial and criminal criminal who died for suicide in jail in 2019, after the setback he received from Maga supporters after he announced last month that additional files would not be published.
Maxwell, an Epstein associate for a long time, currently meets a 20 -year prison sentence for sexual trafficking and other crimes in relation to Epstein.
In his 31 -page opinion, the American district judge Paul Engelmayer, from the Southern New York district, criticized the Department of Justice for using a “demonstrably false” reasoning to justify the release of the testimony of the Grand Jury.
The transcripts “would not reveal new information of any consequence” on the crimes of Epstein and Maxwell, according to Judge Engelmayer, who suggested that the impulse of the Trump administration to publish documents could be an intentional “deviation”.
“All his premise, that Maxwell’s Grand Jury materials would bring to light significant new information on the crimes of Epstein and Maxwell, or government investigation into them, is demonstrably false,” he wrote.
Engelmayer wrote that transcripts contain material already in the public registry and lack first -hand information about the crimes of Epstein and Maxwell. Records do not identify anyone but Epstein or Maxwell who had sexual contact with a minor, mention any client, shed light on their methods or provide new information about Epstein’s death, Engelmayer wrote.
Ghislaine Maxwell attends day 1 of the 4th Annual Wie Symposium at Center 548 on September 20, 2013 in New York City.
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“To the extent that the motion to disassemble implies that the materials of the Grand Jury are an unspecified mine mine on Epstein or Maxwell or Confederates, they are definitely not. Of the first of the materials, based on those that represent the new reports on the new reports, about the first of the materials, based on those representing these materials.
Engelmayer also suggested that the only reason that could justify the release of the records would be “to expose as faults in the public explanations of the government to move on to revelation.”
“A public member, appreciating that Maxwell’s Grand Jury materials do not contribute anything to public knowledge, could conclude that the government’s motion for its insult was not aimed at ‘transparency’ but to deviation, not to the complete dissemination but to the illusion of such,” he wrote.
Engelmayer is the second judge to deny the management of the administration to reveal the secret testimony of the grand jury related to Epstein and Maxwell. Last month, the American district judge Robin Rosenberg dismissed the doj’s motion to reveal the testimony of the first federal investigation of Epstein in Florida that began in the mid -2000s.
A third federal judge in New York is still considering the request of the administration to reveal the testimony in the second investigation of Epstein in 2019.
The transfer of the government towards the testimony of the Grand Jury occurred after the Trump administration faced a violent reaction for its decision last month of not freeing more materials from the investigations against Epstein and Maxwell, after repeated statements that planned to do so.
According to a three -page test list published by the Department of Justice in February, the Government has more than 300 gigabytes of data obtained during those investigations. The remaining materials include 40 computers and electronic devices, 26 storage units, more than 70 CDs and six recording devices, according to the evidence index.
The evidence also includes approximately 60 pieces of physical evidence, which include photographs, travel records, employee lists, more than $ 17,000 in cash, five massage tables, plans of Epstein’s island and Manhattan’s house, four busts of parts of the female body, a couple of women’s cowboy boots and a stuffed dog, according to the list.
Unpublished evidence includes multiple documents related to two EPStein islands owned in the Virgin Islands of the USA., Little Saint James, where its complex was located, and Greater Saint James. According to the index, the files include a folder that contains island planes, photographs and other documents.
Some of the documents could shed light on who visited the island. According to the index, the files also include a small registration book by Saint James, as well as multiple records of boat travel from and from the island.
Epstein died for suicide in 2019 while facing federal positions of child sexual trafficking. For a long time, it is rumored that the well -connected financial has maintained a “list of customers” of celebrities and politicians, that right -wing influencers have accused the authorities of hiding without foundations.
The Department of Justice and the FBI announced last month that they had not found evidence that Epstein maintained said list, after several senior officials, before joining the Administration, had accused the government of protecting information about Epstein’s case.
In their joint memo, the FBI and the DOJ argued that a “large part” of the records included photographs of victims and child pornography. According to the Department of Justice, the evidence includes “images and videos” of victims that seem to be lower, “more than ten thousand videos downloaded and images of illegal material of child sexual abuse and other pornography”, and a “large volume” of Images of Epstein.
“While we have worked to provide maximum information about Epstein to the public and guarantee the examination of any evidence in the government’s possession, it is the determination of the Department of Justice and the Federal Research Office that no greater dissemination would be appropriate or guaranteed,” said the memorandum.
