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Judge Rodney Smith granted the Trump administration’s request to unseal grand jury materials from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2005 and 2007 Florida case, prompted by the Epstein Files Transparency Act. This act mandates the public release of most government documents related to Epstein by December 19. Smith, a Trump appointee, reversed an earlier rejection, ruling that the new law overrides grand jury secrecy rules. The unsealing concerns materials distinct from Epstein’s 2019 New York criminal case. This decision opens the way for the release of these previously confidential documents to the public.
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U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith granted the Trump administration’s request to unseal grand jury materials in Epstein’s Florida case, paving the way for those documents to be released.
The Trump administration asked the court to unseal the grand jury materials in light of Congress passing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a law that requires most of the government’s materials on Epstein to be publicly released by Dec. 19.
The request specifically concerns materials from grand juries who considered the government’s investigation into Epstein in 2005 and 2007, and is separate from the New York criminal case that led to Epsten’s 2019 arrest.
While the court rejected a previous effort by the Trump administration to unseal the materials, Smith, a Trump appointee, ruled the new law “overrides” other rules that keep grand jury materials secret, meaning the documents should now be released.
