A judge in the US has rejected a justice department bid to unseal grand jury materials related to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The US government had filed a motion to unseal grand jury transcripts related to Epstein, a former financier who took his own life while awaiting trial in 2019.
Last Friday, Donald Trump said attorney general Pam Bondi had been asked to release the transcripts because of “the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein”.
The Department of Justice said criminal cases against Epstein and his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, were a matter of public interest.
The judge’s decision is the first ruling in a series of attempts by President Donald Trump’s administration to release more information on the case amid calls by some in his MAGA support group for the full details of Epstein’s activities to be released.
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