Washington – The Department of Justice on Friday formally asked a federal judge to ignore the tape from the grand jury proceedings, which included the convict sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
A day after the filed with federal prosecutors, President Trump said that he said Asked Attorney General Palm Bondi “To seek the release of any and all relevant grand jury testimony, subjected to the approval of the court.” Bondi said that the Department of Justice will ask the federal court in Manhattan on Friday to make the grand jury tape public.
Justice Department A request filed Epstein in New York to ignore the grand jury tape related to allegations of child sex trafficking of 2019, which ended after being detained later that year. it Also petitioned For the release of grand jury tape in the case against Ghislane Maxwell, which was in 2021 Plot With Epstein, and that it would ask the South Florida court to issue tapes. Epstein was investigated by federal authorities in Florida in the 2000s, which ended in a convicted petition on a federal non-essence agreement and allegations of state prostitution.
The judges who oversee the cases will be the final decision -making that and how much grand jury documents can be issued. If judges give grants to the government’s requests to ignore the material, it is unlikely to be available immediately, and it may be weeks or months before the records are unheard. Federal rules usually require cases before keeping a grand jury secret.
In its filing on Friday, the Department of Justice said that it would “work to resume the afflicted information and other personal identity information.” It argued that the release “as a matter of public interest” is appropriate.
The White House spent dealing with a decline last week Department of Justice and FBI Memo which ended Epstein did not have a “client list” and confirmed that he died of suicide. Memo, which expanded the findings of the review of Epstein’s case, also said that there was no “reliable evidence” that the infamous financial financer blackmailed the prominent people.
The Department of Justice and the FBI have written that they will not release any additional information about Epstein’s case, and said the review has not exposed evidence that will lead to investigation of third parties.
In Friday’s court petitions, the department said, “There has been widespread public interest based on the findings of the memorandum,” and “transparency to the American public is extremely important for this administration.”
The tapes of the grand jury proceedings probably do not form the entirety of evidence that the FBI and the Department of Justice had collected in their investigation in Epstein. A List In February, investigators issued by the Department of Justice collected financial records, travel logs, photos, phones and computer data, and financial records owned by the property Epstein. It is unknown as to how much the underlying material was presented to the Grand Jury, and will it be included in a release.
Thousands of documents have already been made public Court record In Other lawsuits And public record request.
Earlier this month, Memo launched immense backlash against his supporters against Mr. Trump and Bondi, suspecting the claims of the Department of Justice that there was nothing else to be released. Bondi promised to release the files related to Epstein and in a February 1 interview with Fox News suggested that the “client list” “was sitting at my desk right now.”
White House press secretary Karolin Lewit later said that Bandi was referring to all papers regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. “
Nevertheless, Bondi was fired by Laura Lumor, an enthusiastic protector of Mr. Trump, and even house speaker Mike Johnson told a conservative podcaster that “we should keep everything out and decide people.” He later tried to reduce any division between him and the President.
Mr. Trump has tried to blunt displeasure and claimed that his supporters have been cheated by Democrats who deliberately created interest in Epstein.
,[A]Want to talk about these people, with fake news strong and success is hungry dams, Jeffrey Epstein Hocx is, “President Written on Wednesday Social on truth. “Allow these weaknesses to move forward and do the Democrats, don’t even think of talking about our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore!”
But many supporters of Mr. Trump, as well as the administration officials such as JD Vance, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, were with Recommended for years This Democrats were deliberately trying to hide information about Epstein and the alleged list of customers.
Justice department in February Distributed binders In the White House, 15 right -wing social media affected were “The Epstein files: Charan 1”. But the affected said that they are documents that were already in a public domain.
Epstein was arrested in Florida in 2006 and convicted for allegations of two state prostitution in 2008. Then, in 2019, a federal grand jury accused them of a count of sex trafficking of minors and a count of conspiracy for sexual trafficking of minors.
Federal prosecutors alleged that Epstein sexually abused and abused dozens of girls from 2002 to 2002, and worked with others who established sexual encounters with victims at Manhattan and Palm Beach, Epstein’s residences in Florida.
Epstein and Mr. Trump were friends for years, running in the same social circles in New York and Florida since the late 2000s. On Thursday, President came out in A Story in Wall Street Journal The pair’s relationship was chronic, which the President said that Epstein’s first arrest in 2006 ended. The magazine reported that Mr. Trump signed the letter “Bawdi” to Epstein in the early 2000s, stating that he marked his 50th birthday, stating, “There could be another wonderful secret every day.” Mr. Trump called the letter “fake” and said that he would sue the journal, its original company and media Mogul Rupert Murdoch on the story.
Epstein Death of suicide Waiting for the test in custody in a manhattan improvement facility. The Inspector General of the Department of Justice investigated Epstein’s death and agreed with the determination of a medical examiner that he died of suicide.
A colleague of Epstein, Ghislane Maxwell, Guilty in 2021 For their role in the recruitment of Epstein, helping bride and misbehavior girls. He is currently By serving a 20 -year jail sentence,
