WASHINGTON — A federal decide in Florida dominated Wednesday that its “palms are tied” in releasing federal grand jury transcripts from 2005 and 2007 in reference to an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
The ruling was separate from a request that the Justice Division has pending associated to a grand jury within the Southern District of New York, the place Epstein was in the end indicted. Epstein died by suicide in 2019 whereas awaiting trial in New York. His confederate Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in 2021 and is now serving a 20-year sentence.
Within the Florida case, U.S. District Decide Robin Rosenberg mentioned that, although the federal government believes particular circumstances exist and the coverage causes for grand jury secrecy have expired, its rationale “aren’t any exceptions” to grand jury secrecy.
The federal government, Rosenberg wrote, “has successfully conceded that the Court docket’s palms are tied” due to the Eleventh Circuit legislation.
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