The judge denies the request of the Department of Justice to reveal the records of the Great Jury of Epstein
A federal judge in Florida denied a request from the Department of Justice to insert the records of the Grand Jury linked to federal investigations to Jeffrey Epstein, according to a public order Launched on Wednesday.
The application is one of the three made by the Department of Justice to the judges in New York and Florida who seek to reveal federal investigations records in Epstein.
This photo provided by the Registry of Sexual Criminals of the State of New York shows Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017.
Record of sexual criminals of the state of New York through AP
According to the order of the Robin Rosenberg district judge, the records that the department sought to reveal related to the great jurors convened in West Palm Beach in 2005 and 2007 that had investigated Epstein.
Judge Rosenberg criticized the Department of Justice for not outlineing sufficient arguments to justify the insult of the records, which are normally protected under strict rules of secret.
Rosenberg’s opinion states that his “hands are tied” given the existing precedent in the Court of Appeals of the eleventh circuit that only allows the dissemination of such large jury materials under narrow exceptions.
In addition, he denied a request to transfer the problem to the jurisdiction of the Southern District of New York, where two judges are reflecting separately on similar motions of the department that seek to unsafe grand jury records linked to Epstein and his former associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
A spokesman for the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comments on the order.
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