On Monday, a judge denied a request to unseal transcripts from the grand jury trial that indicted Ghislaine Maxwell. This comes as the case with Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein has been a main focus in the national discourse over the past several months.
The New York judge denied a request from the DOJ to unseal the transcripts. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer wrote in the decision that the release of the materials in a “casually or promiscuously” fashion could risk “unraveling the foundations of secrecy upon which the grand jury is premised.”
“And it is no answer to argue that releasing the grand jury materials, because they are redundant of the evidence at Maxwell’s trial, would be innocuous. The same could be said for almost any grand jury testimony, by summary witnesses or others, given in support of charges that later proceeded to trial,” the judge added in the decision.
