Ghislaine Maxwell Grand Jury Materials To remain sealed, judicial rules

An American judge ruled that the materials of the big jury in the Ghislaine Maxwell sexual trafficking case will remain sealed, stating that turning them into public “will not reveal new information about any consequence.”

The Ministry of Justice has asked Judge Paul Engelmayer to unleash the documents in an attempt to take advantage of President Donald Trump’s supporters for the decision not to launch all the federal files of Maxwell, the deceased sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

Maxwell, currently serving A 20-year sentence in prison For Epstein crimes, they opposed the reflection of the materials.

The judge wrote that it is important to protect the secret of major court hearings that decide whether to blame people accused of crime.

There are special circumstances in which this secret has been broken, writes Judge Engelmayer in his decision on 31 pages.

But he wrote that “the implementation of the exception negligently or indiscriminately, since the government’s proposal to clarify the testimony of the big hearing here invites” will harm the system of the big jury. He can, he wrote, set a precedent in which people do not believe that production will be kept secret, which can prevent witnesses from testifying, and jurors from focusing solely on the merits of the case.

He rejected the government’s argument that much of the information provided to the large jury was publicly announced during its process, although he agreed that “a member of the public familiar with the Maxwell protocol, who examined the materials of the great jury … in this way he would learn to nothing new.”

The materials “do not identify another person other than Epstein and Maxwell that they had sexual contact with a minor” and “do not discuss or identify every customer of Epstein or Maxwell,” he writes.

63 -year -old Maxwell was sentenced in December 2019 and was Has recently moved From the Florida prison to a new minimal security facility in Texas.

Last week, One of her accusers He said outside the New York court that he should stay in prison for the rest of his life.

The BBC addressed Maxwell’s lawyers for comment.

Last month, it was interviewed by employees of the Ministry of Justice in accordance with the Trump Administration Directive to collect and release reliable evidence related to the Epstein case.

On the trail of the campaign, Trump has promised to release what is known as “Epstein Dossies”. But this summer the Ministry of Justice and the FBI said they had concluded that Epstein did not keep a “customer list” And that the Ministry of Justice will not publish additional files.

In response to the reverse reaction, Trump said that Bondi should release “whatever he thinks is credible.” Meanwhile, the Committee of Congress has sent a summons to the Ministry of Justice, related to federal investigations into charges against Epstein and Maxwell, which have been returned for 20 years.

The president, who was friends with Epstein, denied a preliminary knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and said he and the financier who died in the federal custody while waiting for a lawsuit, fell in the early 2000sS