{"id":148626,"date":"2025-08-11T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=148626"},"modified":"2025-08-11T12:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:01:03","slug":"judge-denies-trump-dojs-bid-to-unseal-ghislaine-maxwell-grand-jury-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/judge-denies-trump-dojs-bid-to-unseal-ghislaine-maxwell-grand-jury-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge denies Trump DOJ’s bid to unseal Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury records"},"content":{"rendered":"

by<\/em><\/span> WorldTribune<\/strong> Staff \/ <\/em><\/span><\/span>247 Real News<\/strong><\/span><\/a> August 11, 2025 <\/em> <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A federal judge on Monday denied the Department of Justice’s request to unseal grand jury materials the sex trafficking case of Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.<\/p>\n

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Ghislaine Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison term in Tallahassee, Florida. \/ DOJ photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In his 31-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, an Obama appointee, wrote that the grand jury materials do not identify anyone other than Epstein or Maxwell as having had sexual contact with a minor.<\/p>\n

The DOJ had requested the release of grand jury testimony and exhibits from cases involving Epstein in New York.<\/p>\n

Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking.<\/p>\n

The judge noted that the government\u2019s evidence at Maxwell’s weekslong trial included the testimony of women who were sexually abused as girls by Epstein and Maxwell, people who worked for Epstein and Maxwell, and law enforcement officials. Some of the evidence included photos and items collected from Epstein\u2019s residences, flight logs, and an address book.<\/p>\n

The evidence before the grand juries, meanwhile, was presented on a single day.<\/p>\n

“On that day, it heard testimony from one person: a law enforcement agent who, acting as a summary witness, testified to information obtained in the Government\u2019s investigation to support the charges in the proposed indictment,” the judge wrote, saying that agent was “responding to tightly structured questions” from an assistant United States attorney.<\/p>\n

Engelmayer said that the government\u2019s reasoning for unsealing the Maxwell grand jury materials \u2014 that it came after \u201cabundant public interest\u201d \u2014 \u201cfails at the threshold.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIts entire premise \u2014 that the Maxwell grand jury materials would bring to light meaningful new information about Epstein\u2019s and Maxwell\u2019s crimes, or the Government\u2019s investigation into them\u2014is demonstrably false,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

In his ruling, Engelmayer said that the government\u2019s submissions failed to prove its claim that the grand jury materials \u201ccontained undisclosed information of significant historical or public interest.\u201d He said that \u201cwith only very minor exceptions,\u201d the evidence from the Maxwell grand juries is \u201ca matter of public record.\u201d<\/p>\n

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by WorldTribune Staff \/ 247 Real News August 11, 2025 A federal judge on Monday denied the Department of Justice’s request to unseal grand jury materials the sex trafficking case of Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. In his 31-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, an Obama appointee, wrote that the grand jury materials […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":148627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[369,6],"class_list":["post-148626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-exclusives","category-world-tribune","tag-judge-denies-trump-dojs-bid-to-unseal-ghislaine-maxwell-grand-jury-records","tag-worldtribune-com","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}