The Division of Justice revealed in a single day that there have been solely ever two witnesses who testified through the grand jury proceedings earlier than the 2 grand juries investigating Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in New York, and stated that a lot of the grand jury testimony was in line with accounts made public at trial.
DOJ confronted a deadline by a decide within the Southern District of New York to submit a memorandum in help of unsealing the Epstein- and Maxwell-related grand jury supplies to the court docket.
“Right here, there was one witness—an FBI agent—through the Epstein grand jury proceedings,” the submitting says. “There have been two witnesses—the identical FBI agent from the Epstein grand jury proceedings and a detective with the NYPD who was a Job Power Officer with the FBI’s Youngster Exploitation and Human Trafficking Job Power—through the Maxwell grand jury proceedings.”
The federal government revealed that most of the victims whose accounts had been topic to grand jury testimony testified at trial, and subsequently believes that a lot of the fabric has already been made public.
“Lots of the victims whose accounts regarding Epstein and Maxwell that had been the topic of grand jury testimony testified at trial in line with the accounts described by an FBI agent and the detective from the New York Metropolis Police Division (“NYPD”) within the grand jury and a few have additionally made public these factual accounts in the middle of civil litigation,” the submitting says.
DOJ says it proposes redacting any transcripts that comprise victim-related and different private figuring out data.
DOJ additionally admits they by no means tried to contact or present discover to the victims who could also be referenced within the grand jury transcripts.
Since asking the court docket to unseal grand jury supplies the federal government has “now offered discover to all however one of many victims who’re referenced within the grand jury transcripts at challenge on this movement,” the papers say.
