Justice Division Wins Movement to Unseal Epstein’s 2019 Intercourse Trafficking Case Information

Secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 intercourse trafficking case may be made public, a decide dominated on Wednesday (December 10, 2025), becoming a member of two different judges in granting the Justice Division’s requests to unseal materials from investigations into the late financier’s sexual abuse.

U.S. District Choose Richard M. Berman reversed his earlier determination to maintain the fabric below wraps, citing a brand new regulation that requires the federal government to open its recordsdata on Epstein and his longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell.

The decide beforehand cautioned that the 70 or so pages of grand jury supplies slated for launch are hardly revelatory.

On Tuesday (December 9), a unique Manhattan federal decide ordered the discharge of information from Ms. Maxwell’s 2021 intercourse trafficking case. Final week, a decide in Florida permitted the unsealing of transcripts from an deserted Epstein federal grand jury investigation within the 2000s.

The Justice Division requested the judges to raise secrecy orders after the Epstein Information Transparency Act, handed by Congress and signed into regulation by President Donald Trump final month, created a slender exception to guidelines that usually maintain grand jury proceedings confidential.