The United States Judiciary has once again denied a request from President Donald Trump to release material related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, the New York financier who led a sex trafficking ring and was found dead in a police station cell under mysterious circumstances in 2019.
This time, federal judge Richard Berman, from the New York district, is the one who rejected the new government petition this Wednesday. According to the magistrate, the release of the grand jury material that indicted Epstein in 2019 for sexual offenses would result in future risks to the safety and privacy of the victims cited in this proceeding.
Government prosecutors, under Trump's directive, sought to declassify a total of 70 pages of grand jury transcripts, which included documentary evidence in the form of a PowerPoint presentation, call records, and letters from the victims and their attorneys.
