Washington – A federal judge in New York on Wednesday rejected the federal government’s request to ignore the grand jury content in the case of late sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday, stating that the prosecutors had failed to showcase that “special circumstances” warned their disclosure.
US District Court Judge Richard Burman gave his verdict for the southern district of New York 14 page decision To deny the government’s proposal to ignore the documents.
Burman wrote that the Grand Jury content under consideration includes only one witness testimony, an FBI agent “which had no direct knowledge of the facts of the case and whose testimony was mostly hearing.” The documents that the government was demanding to unheard, included a grand jury, a powerpoint exhibition and a tape of about 70 pages of two presentations of the agent for a call log.
Burman said that the files of the Department of Justice on Epstein are dwarfed from a grand jury. Action before Grand Juris is usually kept secret.
“An important and compelling reason to reject the government’s position in this litigation is that the government has already conducted a comprehensive investigation in the Epstein case and surprisingly, collected a ‘Trove’ of Epstein documents, interviews and demonstrations, and, the government said that it will share its Epstein investigation material with the public.”
Burman said, “The government is a logical party to make widespread disclosure to the people of Epstein files. Comparatively, immediately the grand jury speed appears to be a ‘diversion’ from the width of Epstein files and a scope in the government’s possession,” Burman wrote a decision by another judge in New York. Declated the government’s move To ignore the content in the case of Gisline Maxwell, Epstein’s co-conspirator who is serving a 20-year sentence on allegations of sex-trafficking.
Burman wrote that the Grand Jury content “is only one hearing of the alleged conduct of Jeffrey Epstein.” He cited “potential hazards for the safety and privacy of the victims” as one of the factors, which was weighed in favor of not issuing documents.
In July, justice department Asked the judges Maxwell and Epstein to maintain the cases of grand jury materials that formed Aadhaar for federal allegations against them, a step that came amidst the commotion Department review The so -called “Epstein files” and the decision not to release additional documents in the government’s possession.
