Washington – A federal judge in Florida has denied the request of the Department of Justice to ignore the grand jury content in late sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein in 2005 and 2007.
Judge Robin Rosenburg, a federal judge, with the US district court to the southern district of Florida, wrote Order On Wednesday that “the hands of the court are tied,” the 11th circuit exemplified the grand jury secrecy set up by the US Court of Appeals, including South Florida. He said that the government admitted that it was tied with the decisions of the 11th circuit.
Last week, Attorney General Palm Bondi and lawyers of the Department of Justice asked several federal courts to open Grand Jury has a long -standing partner in cases related to Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell, who is serving a 20 -year jail sentence on sexual trafficking charges. Epstein was convicted on allegations of state prostitution in 2008, and federal sexual trafficking charges in 2019. He died in federal custody.
Wednesday’s decision applies to tapes of proceedings by federal grand values convened in West Palm Beach only in 2005 and 2007. In New York, separate grand doers included Epstein and Maxwell in 2020 in 2019. The judges who oversee those cases are still abolishing the administration’s request, and the government, the victims and the defense teams have asked for more information.
The New York Federal Court is bound by separate circuit courts, which means that judges can eventually pave the way to issue more information.
It is not yet clear that the Trump administration will appeal to the Florida court decisionWhite House press secretary Karolin Levitt told reporters on Wednesday afternoon that she would “let this President talk about whether she wants to see the appeal”.
In order to provide more transparency in the Epstein case, the pressure on the Trump administration and the Republican in the Congress is increasing, even President Trump has said that he does not understand why many of his supporters are interested.
