bbcA federal judge in New York has ruled that the U.S. Department of Justice can release grand jury records from the 2019 Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman reverses his earlier decision to keep the material sealed. He cited a new law passed by Congress that requires the Justice Department to release files on Epstein by the end of next week.
Esptein was charged with sex trafficking in July 2019. He died in a New York prison cell a month later while awaiting trial.
The latest ruling comes a day after another judge issued a similar ruling in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 for her role in facilitating Epstein’s abuse.
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