A United States federal judge has denied a Department of Justice bid to unseal grand jury records from Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case, stating the government already has plenty of material related to Epstein that it could release if it chose to do so.
The ruling issued by New York Judge Richard Berman on Wednesday follows a similar decision from a judge overseeing the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the deceased sex offender’s former girlfriend and a central figure in his web of abuse.
