DOJ says Epstein, Maxwell grand jury transcripts only consist of law enforcement testimony

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3. Epstein Grand Jury Transcripts Don't Include Any Interviews With Victims, DOJ Says

Grand jury documents in Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s cases only include interviews with law enforcement and do not include any testimony from Epstein’s victims directly, the Justice Department confirmed in a filing late Tuesday, further suggesting the grand jury materials may not include any explosive details the public wants as the Trump administration pushes to release them instead of the FBI’s full Epstein files.

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The Trump administration is asking multiple courts to unseal grand jury documents in the prosecutions against Epstein and Maxwell, which would detail what the grand juries were told in order to decide the defendants should be indicted.

The DOJ submitted a court filing late Tuesday further laying out its case for why the grand jury materials should be released, as federal law only allows those documents to be unsealed under very limited circumstances.

As part of their filing, prosecutors noted the only witness to testify to the grand jury in Epstein’s case was an FBI agent, while Maxwell’s grand jury included testimony from the same FBI agent and a NYPD detective who had been a Task Force Officer with the FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.

That means jurors did not hear from any of Epstein’s victims themselves during the grand jury proceedings, and any grand jury transcripts would likely only include law enforcement testifying about evidence in the case, rather than that evidence directly.