{"id":309132,"date":"2025-12-10T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309132\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T16:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:04:07","slug":"judge-rules-epstein-grand-jury-records-from-2019-can-be-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309132\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge rules Epstein grand jury records from 2019 can be released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Judge Berman in August had denied a previous justice department request to unseal the grand jury materials, saying he had concerns about &#8220;possible threats to victims&#8217; safety and privacy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But in Wednesday&#8217;s ruling, he said the materials could now be released because of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was signed into law by US President Donald Trump last month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The law requires the justice department to release investigative material related to Epstein by 19 December, including unclassified records, documents and communications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also allows the department to withhold files that involve active criminal investigations or raise privacy concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Judge Berman said the victims have the right to &#8220;have their identity and privacy protected&#8221;, adding that their &#8220;safety and privacy are paramount&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judge Berman in August had denied a previous justice department request to unseal the grand jury materials, saying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-309132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}