The Department of Justice is pushing to unseal grand jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases, citing overwhelming public interest following its controversial claim that no “Epstein client list” exists.
In a late-night court filing Tuesday, federal prosecutors revealed only two witnesses testified before the grand juries that indicted Epstein in 2019 and Maxwell in 2020 and 2021.
One was an FBI agent. The other was an NYPD detective assigned to the FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.
The DOJ argued for limited unsealing, calling the crimes “abhorrent” and the interest “abundant.”
Prosecutors said the Epstein grand jury met in June and July 2019 and heard only from the FBI agent.
Maxwell’s grand jury convened in mid-2020 and again in March 2021, with the same agent testifying alongside the NYPD detective.
Victim accounts presented to the grand juries by these two agents were echoed at Maxwell’s 2021 trial and through civil suits filed against Epstein’s estate.
The DOJ confirmed that all but one of the victims named in the transcripts have been notified about potential disclosure, according to the New York Post.
President Donald Trump’s DOJ is asking the court to allow redacted versions of