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American lawyer and U.S. District Judge (born 1961)
The Justice Department has published a small fraction of documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein — roughly 12,285 items totaling about 125,575 pages — and concedes that more than two million responsive reco...
A federal judge in Manhattan — Richard M. Berman — denied a prior request this year to unseal grand jury transcripts in the Ghislaine Maxwell/Jeffrey Epstein matter, while other judges have since auth...
The judge who ruled to keep certain -related grand jury materials sealed was of the . While Engelmayer refused to release those transcripts and later said he lacked jurisdiction to appoint an independ...
Federal grand‑jury materials in the Jeffrey Epstein investigations were subject to longstanding statutory secrecy and judge‑entered orders that kept transcripts and exhibits under seal until recent ru...
Two separate federal rulings and partial releases make the simple claim — “an Obama judge is blocking the Epstein files release” — misleading. Multiple judges, including Obama appointees Robin Rosenbe...
Available reporting so far does not list a roster of "high‑profile individuals" named in the unsealed Epstein court filings because the Justice Department has moved to unseal broad categories of mater...
Federal judges in New York and Florida reversed earlier secrecy and ordered the unsealing of large swaths of Epstein- and Maxwell-related grand jury material and investigative discovery in December 20...
The principal repositories of Jeffrey Epstein‑related material in 2025 were federal: the U.S. Department of Justice (including the FBI and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices such as the Southern District of New ...
Victims and journalists have won partial victories in pressing courts to unseal Epstein-related materials, but success has been mixed and often depended on the forum, the specific records sought, and ...
A federal judge in Florida, U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith, approved the Justice Department’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts from the 2005–2007 Florida investigations into Jeffrey Epstein ...
The release of –related documents is driven primarily by the and the , whose internal review and redaction processes determine what and when material reaches the public, even as and federal courts att...
The unsealed grand jury transcripts and related filings show that the closed-door grand juries that led to the federal indictments of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell did not hear directly from a...
Two federal judges have separately ruled to keep grand‑jury materials in high‑profile Epstein/Maxwell matters sealed: U.S. District Judge Richard Berman refused a Trump administration bid to unseal Je...
Multiple analyses of the provided material show *no single federal judge presided over all of Jeffrey Epstein’s federal matters*; instead, different judges handled distinct cases, motions, and related...
Opponents of unsealing the Epstein files — primarily the Department of Justice and its lawyers — have mounted a multi‑pronged legal defense that stresses limits on judicial authority, challenges to wh...
Two parallel lines of pressure are now colliding over the Justice Department’s heavily redacted Epstein releases: formal congressional subpoenas from House investigators — most prominently an August 5...
Federal and local authorities have undertaken reviews and administrative actions after the late-2025 push to release Epstein-related records, but those steps have not produced public criminal prosecut...
The contested materials tied to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell comprise sprawling FBI and U.S. Attorney investigative files, grand‑jury materials, photos, emails, flight logs, tax and custody r...
Two federal judges — U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith in Florida and a Manhattan federal judge, Paul A. Engelmayer — issued orders in December 2025 that authorized the unsealing of Epstein‑era grand j...
A federal judge has granted the Justice Department’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts and other investigative materials from Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex‑trafficking prosecution, citing the newly p...