{"id":286013,"date":"2025-07-23T19:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286013\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:48:10","slug":"us-judge-rejects-trump-administrations-bid-to-unseal-epstein-grand-jury-transcripts-jeffrey-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286013\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge rejects Trump administration\u2019s bid to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts | Jeffrey Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

A US federal <\/strong>judge on Wednesday denied a justice department request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to a criminal investigation of the late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> in south Florida from the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n

The move is the first ruling in a series of attempts to release more information on the case by Donald Trump\u2019s administration<\/a>, which has been mired in a scandal in recent weeks, after the justice department announced it would not be releasing<\/a> any additional files related to the Epstein case \u2013 despite earlier promises from the president and the the US attorney general, Pam Bondi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The justice department\u2019s memo sparked renewed focus on and scrutiny of Trump\u2019s past ties to Epstein and drew backlash<\/a> from some Trump supporters and conservative commentators.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the justice department filed a motion asking the court<\/a> to unseal the grand jury transcripts related to the federal investigations into Epstein in 2005 and 2007, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

But on Wednesday, US district judge Robin Rosenberg ruled that the department\u2019s request<\/a> in Florida did not fall into any of the exceptions to rules requiring grand jury material be kept secret.<\/p>\n

Rosenberg wrote<\/a> that the court\u2019s \u201chands are tied\u201d and said the government had not requested the grand jury\u2019s findings for use in a judicial proceeding, pointing out that district courts in the US are largely prohibited from unsealing grand jury testimony except in very narrow circumstances.<\/p>\n

\u201cEleventh circuit law does not permit this court to grant the government\u2019s request,\u201d Rosenberg wrote. \u201cThe court\u2019s hands are tied \u2013 a point that the Government concedes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The justice department still has pending requests to unseal transcripts in Manhattan federal court related to a later indictment brought against Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 shortly after his arrest while awaiting trial, and his former associate Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A US federal judge on Wednesday denied a justice department request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-286013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114904282131984450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}