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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
A federal judge in the Southern District of Florida, U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith, approved the Justice Department’s request to unseal grand‑jury transcripts from the 2005–2007 Florida investigati...
Federal grand jury materials are ordinarily sealed under long‑standing federal rules that protect and witness privacy, but passed the Transparency Act in late 2025 and multiple judges have concluded t...
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...
Federal judges have ordered or approved unsealing of previously secret Justice Department and grand jury records tied to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell after Congress passed the Epstein Files T...
Two federal judges have written opinions weighing whether grand‑jury materials tied to Jeffrey Epstein should remain sealed: U.S. District Judge Richard Berman rejected the Justice Department’s earlie...
Federal courts have recently shifted from denying to permitting unsealing of grand jury materials tied to Jeffrey Epstein after Congress passed — and President Trump signed — the Epstein Files Transpa...