Florida Judge Denies DOJ’s Request to Unseal Grand Jury Transcripts on Epstein

The federal judge wrote that “the Court’s hands are tied.”

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A Florida federal judge on Wednesday denied the Department of Justice’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts from the state’s mid-2000s investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.

U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg’s 12-page opinion comes a week after the Trump administration petitioned for the release of grand jury witness testimonies from 2005 and 2007. Facing intense public pressure to release more Epstein-related files, the government said the records should be unsealed because Epstein’s death and the strong public interest constituted a “special circumstance” and that secrecy rules could no longer apply to him.

But the judge said she couldn’t legally release the records under secrecy guidelines.