{"id":72806,"date":"2025-12-05T19:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/72806\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T19:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:21:07","slug":"grand-jury-transcripts-from-epstein-maxwell-investigation-in-florida-ordered-to-be-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/72806\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand jury transcripts from Epstein, Maxwell investigation in Florida ordered to be released"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A federal judge in Florida<\/a> on Friday ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from the federal sex trafficking cases of\u00a0Jeffrey Epstein\u00a0and Ghislaine Maxwell.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith said a recently passed federal law ordering the release of records related to the cases overrode a federal rule prohibiting the release of matters before a grand jury.<\/p>\n

The law signed last month by President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0compels the Justice Department, FBI and federal prosecutors to release later this month the vast troves of material they have amassed during investigations into Epstein.<\/p>\n

Judge Rodney Smith ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from the federal sex trafficking cases of\u00a0Jeffrey Epstein\u00a0and Ghislaine Maxwell. AP<\/p>\n

The law signed by Trump\u00a0compels the Justice Department, FBI and federal prosecutors to release the material they have amassed during investigations into Epstein. Getty Images<\/p>\n

When the documents will be released is unknown. The government had asked the court for permission to include the usually secret grand jury records in the files they are required to make public under the new federal law, known as the\u00a0Epstein Files Transparency Act<\/a>. The Justice Department hasn\u2019t set a timetable for when it plans to start releasing information, but the law set a deadline of Dec. 19.<\/p>\n

The government had asked the court for permission to include the grand jury records in the files they are required to make public under the\u00a0Epstein Files Transparency Act. REUTERS<\/p>\n

However, the law also allows the Justice Department to withhold files that it says could jeopardize an active federal investigation. That\u2019s also longstanding Justice Department policy. Files can also be withheld if they\u2019re found to be classified or if they pertain to national defense or foreign policy.<\/p>\n

One of the federal prosecutors on the Florida case did not answer a phone call Friday and the other declined to answer questions.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department had requested the unsealing of documents from three eppstein-related separate cases: the 2006-2007 Florida grand jury investigation into Epstein, his 2019 sex trafficking case<\/a> in New York and Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s 2021 sex trafficking case, also in New York. The Florida request was approved Friday. The New York requests are pending, with the Justice Department facing a Monday deadline to make its final filing \u2014 a response to submissions by victims, Epstein\u2019s estate and Maxwell\u2019s lawyers. The judges in those matters have said they plan to rule expeditiously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A federal judge in Florida on Friday ordered the release of grand jury transcripts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,41717,3858,9450,11454,4278],"class_list":["post-72806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-ghislaine-maxwell","tag-investigations","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-pedophiles","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}