A federal judge in New York has denied the motion of the Trump administration to reveal the testimony of the Grand Jury of the Criminal Case against Jeffrey Epstein Associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Trump Administration has been looking to publish materials related to Epstein research, the rich financial and criminal criminal who died for suicide in jail in 2019, after the setback he received from Maga supporters after he announced last month that additional files would not be published.
Maxwell, an Epstein associate for a long time, currently meets a 20 -year prison sentence for sexual trafficking and other crimes in relation to Epstein.
In his 31 -page opinion, the American district judge Paul Engelmayer, from the Southern New York district, criticized the Department of Justice for using a “demonstrably false” reasoning to justify the release of the testimony of the Grand Jury.
The transcripts “would not reveal new information of any consequence” on the crimes of Epstein and Maxwell, according to Judge Engelmayer, who suggested that the impulse of the Trump administration to publish documents could be an intentional “deviation”.
“All his premise, that Maxwell’s Grand Jury materials would bring to light significant new information on the crimes of Epstein and Maxwell, or government investigation into them, is demonstrably false,” he wrote.
Engelmayer wrote that transcripts contain material already in the public registry and lack first -hand information about the crimes of Epstein and Maxwell. Records do not identify anyone but Epstein or Maxwell who had sexual contact with a minor, mention any client, shed light on their methods or provide new information about Epstein’s death, Engelmayer wrote.
Ghislaine Maxwell attends day 1 of the 4th Annual Wie Symposium at Center 548 on September 20, 2013 in New York City.
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“To the extent that the motion to disassemble implies that the materials of the Grand Jury are an unspecified mine mine on Epstein or Maxwell or Confederates, they are definitely not. Of the first of the materials, based on those that represent the new reports on the new reports, about the first of the materials, based on those representing these materials.
Engelmayer also suggested that the only reason that could justify the release of the records would be “to expose as faults in the public explanations of the government to move on to revelation.”
“A public member, appreciating that Maxwell’s Grand Jury materials do not contribute anything to public knowledge, could conclude that the government’s motion for its insult was not aimed at ‘transparency’ but to deviation, not to the complete dissemination but to the illusion of such,” he wrote.
