The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a court document emphasizing the importance of releasing grand jury transcripts from the high-profile cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
In court filings, the DOJ argues that the files must be released because it is in the public interest.
The filing, submitted on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, follows a previous court ruling where a judge in Florida rejected the DOJ’s attempt to release grand jury materials in a separate request.
This new motion comes after the DOJ faced questions from a judge regarding the release of these transcripts.
The transcripts are highly sought after due to the ongoing public fascination with the case.
In the filing, DOJ lawyers revealed that only one witness, an FBI agent, appeared during Epstein’s grand jury proceedings.
Similarly, during Maxwell’s grand jury proceedings, there were two witnesses: the same FBI agent and a detective from the New York City Police Department (NYPD).
The NYPD detective was part of the FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.
The DOJ’s filing noted that much of the testimony from Epstein’s victims, which was part of the grand jury proceedings, has already