The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday evening in a court filing said that releasing grand jury transcripts related to the case against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is in the “public interest.”
The new filing, which was submitted in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, came after a judge asked the DOJ for more information in their bid to have the files released. Last week, a judge in Florida rejected the DOJ’s push to release grand jury materials in a separate bid.
In the filings, DOJ lawyers said the only witness at Epstein’s grand jury was an FBI agent. That same agent and a New York City Police Department detective were the only witnesses at Maxwell’s grand jury, DOJ prosecutors also said….