The Justice Department has wagered on its latest position on the release of the material from the Great Jury linked to convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Gisleine Maxwell.
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The Justice Department has expanded its request for large juice material linked to Jeffrey Epstein and Gislane Maxwell, but it still wants to protect “personal identification.”
The department hopes the court will seal the seal as well as transcripts that show the testimony of two law enforcement witnesses before the grand ju trial that indicted Epstein and Maxwell, as well as the exhibits that are part of those cases. Court exhibits are items of evidence, such as photographs, videos, and documents.
The department clarified its position in a filing in Manhattan Federal Court on August 8th. This is considering whether to release sealed material from the process of the big ju judge that led to federal accusations against Epstein and Maxwell from 2019 to 2020.
“Efforts to edit third parties’ names are a cover-up smack,” victim Annie Farmer said through her lawyer in an August 5 letter to court. Farmer testified about the prosecutor at Maxwell’s 2021 criminal trial.
“To the extent that either Epstein and Maxwell’s enablers and Coconspilaters who have previously circumvented accountability are involved in the transcripts of the Great Jue, their identities should not be protected from the public,” she insisted, in contrast, that identifying victim information should be compiled.
The Department of Justice did not adopt the latest requests. Processing the request for unsealed transcripts, Judge Richard Berman of Epstein’s transcripts and Judge Paul Engelmeyer of Maxwell’s transcripts, directed departmental lawyers to specify their position on the release of the exhibits.
The department said it should notify anyone whose names are displayed on the exhibit, and asked them to update the judges on the process until August 14th.
The department pointed out the potential release of the large ju judge’s materials and interviews on July 24th and 25th. Maxwell is trying to quell public outrage over the decision not to release the government’s full investigation file on Epstein.
Already, a federal judge in Florida ruled on July 23 that the large ju trial documents linked to the federal investigation of Epstein in that state must remain sealed. The Justice Department has yet to release details from an interview with Maxwell, who serves a 20-year sentence after being convicted of sex trafficking in 2021.
Epstein died in a federal prison in Manhattan in 2019, awaiting his own trial on federal sex trafficking charges. He was convicted in 2008 of two Florida prostitution crimes.
Epstein and Maxwell victims seek transparency
Robert Glassman, the victim’s lawyer identified as “Jane Doe” in Maxwell’s criminal case, wrote separately to the court that he and his clients supported Farmer’s appeal to third parties related to Epstein and Maxwell.
Several other victims are seeking the release of all Epstein-related information and documents that they possess and control of law enforcement, prosecutors and other government agents. That includes a full transcript of Maxwell’s July 24th to July 25th interviews, Scorera said.
Another unknown person, who is self-described in a letter to the court as “the victim of Jeffrey Epstein and Gislaine Maxwell,” accused the government of “scraping data,” asking “the true editing that comes first is just for the victims.”
Letters from Bradley Edwards, who represent multiple Epstein accusers, and other lawyers, narrowed disclosure of material from the Great Ju Court, urged the court to set up procedures for victim lawyers to be included in the process of compiling victim-related information.
Non-infringers mentioned in the large juice documents seek protection
In one letter to the court, a third-party lawyer whose name was edited from the official version of the letter urged the court not to disclose any large juice material identifying his client.
“There is no doubt that the privacy and secrets of innocent third parties will significantly outweigh the historical interest that the public has in reviewing these materials,” Neil Binder wrote.
The binder writes that the courts should keep the transcripts of the Great Jue under seal, or otherwise block not only the names of third parties, but also the surrounding context where other personal identification information and the public can infer the identity of the individual being discussed.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed concerns about third parties if the government releases Epstein-related documents. However, in the trajectory of the campaign, he also incited the flames of conspiracy theory about whether Epstein was killed in prison, and many of his circles sought transparency. New York’s chief medical inspector determined that Epstein died of suicide in 2019.
Trump was friends with Epstein for many years until around 2004. He was said to have been named multiple times in the government file in Epstein in May.
