Florida judge unseals Epstein grand‑jury records; New York judges now grant parallel unsealing orders
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A Florida judge, Rodney Smith, ordered the unsealing of grand‑jury transcripts from the abandoned 2006–07 Jeffrey Epstein probe, finding the Epstein Files Transparency Act overrides grand‑jury secrecy and noting the law requires DOJ, FBI and federal prosecutors to release records by Dec. 19. Following that ruling, SDNY judges — including Richard Berman — have moved to unseal grand‑jury and investigative materials from Epstein’s 2019 federal case and voluminous Maxwell transcripts from 2021, set a near‑term deadline for the DOJ’s filings, and said they will rule quickly while redacting victims’ identities.
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