A federal judge in New York granted the Justice Department’s request to release the grand jury records in the Jeffrey Epstein case.
The decision comes just one day after another judge ordered the disclosure of grand jury records related to Ghislaine Maxwell.
In his order, Judge Richard Berman cited the law passed last month, which requires the Justice Department to release all its records related to Epstein, calling its wording “clear.”
“Hereby, the Court grants the government’s motion in accordance with the Epstein Records Transparency Act and the unequivocal right of Epstein’s victims to protection of their identity and privacy,” he wrote in the four-page ruling.
He explained that he agreed with the attorneys for Epstein’s survivors, who, according to him, wrote to the court to say that disclosure “CANNOT be done at the expense of the privacy, safety, and protection of the victims of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.”
Berman also referenced the law’s language specifying the type of personal material to be withheld, including survivors’ personal and medical files.
