Justice Department asks court to unseal Jeffrey Epstein grand jury records
The Ministry of Justice asked a federal court on Friday to unshine the transcriptions of the Grand Jury in Jeffrey Epstein case in the direction of President Donald Trump In the middle of a fire storm on the processing by the administration of files related to the rich financier.
The move – to come one day after A story of the Wall Street Journal Put a projector on Trump’s relationship with Epstein – seeks to contain an increasing controversy that has engulfed the administration because it has announced that it would not publish more government files in the case of Epstein sex traffic.
Deputy Prosecutor General Todd Blanche has deposited requests urging the court to descend Epstein’s transcriptions as well as those of the case against the British worldly Ghislaine Maxwell, who was found guilty of having attracted adolescent girls to be sexually abused by Epstein. Epstein committed suicide in 2019 shortly after his arrest while waiting for the trial.
The announcement of the Ministry of Justice according to which she no longer releases the parties of Epstein partly enraged from the Trump base because the members of her own administration had aroused the planned liberation and delighted conspiracies around the well connected financial.
Trump’s request to publish the Grand Jury’s transcriptions occurred after the Wall Street Journal reported on a sexually suggestive letter on Thursday which, according to the newspaper, obtained the name of Trump and was included in a 2003 album for Epstein’s 50th anniversary.
The letter bearing the name of Trump includes text framed by the outline of what seems to be a naked woman drawn by hand and ends with: “Happy birthday – and maybe another wonderful secret”, according to the newspaper. The point of sale described the content of the letter but did not publish a photo showing it entirely.
Trump denied having written the letter, the appellant “false, malicious and defamatory” and promised to continue. Trump said he had spoken both to the owner of the newspaper, Rupert Murdoch, and his leading publisher, Emma Tucker, and told them that the letter was “false”.
“These are not my words, not the way I speak. In addition, I do not draw photos,” wrote the president on social networks.
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The Ministry of Justice said in legal files that this would work with prosecutors in New York to make the appropriate writing of the information related to the victims and other personal identification information before the publication of transcriptions.
“Transparency in this process will not be at the expense of our obligation under the law to protect the victims,” wrote Blanche.
But despite the new push to publish the transcriptions of the Grand Jury, the administration has not announced its intention to overthrow the course and publish other evidence in its possession. The Attorney General Pam Bondi had excited the release of more documents after the first disclosure of Epstein files in February triggered the indignation because it did not contain any new revelation.
A judge should approve the release of the great jury transcriptions, and it is likely that it is a long process to decide what can become public and make writing to protect sensitive information from witnesses and victims.
The files would show a testimony of witnesses and other evidence which was presented by the proceedings during the secret procedure of the Grand Jury, when a panel decides if there is enough evidence to provide an act of accusation or an official criminal accusation.
