The Justice Department requested a judge for permission Wednesday to publicly release monetary records, journey paperwork, and notes of sufferer interviews obtained through the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his confederate Ghislaine Maxwell to adjust to a brand new legislation.
In a letter to the judge overseeing the Maxwell case, prosecutors requested the judge to raise a protecting order that beforehand prevented the general public dissemination of proof turned over to Maxwell forward of her trial.
Evidence and materials coated by the protecting order embrace search warrants, monetary records, journey records, flight lists, authorities records, together with police reviews, arrest reviews, reserving pictures, depositions from civil investigations, supplies from Epstein’s property, and reviews and notes of interviews with third events, together with victims, they stated.
The Justice Department requested the judges overseeing the Maxwell and Epstein instances to rule shortly on the request to release grand jury transcripts of legislation enforcement officers and the proof coated by the protecting order to allow them to adjust to the Epstein Files Transparency Act. They stated they’d redact any personally figuring out info of victims in any release.
Prosecutors say they’ve heard from legal professionals for quite a few survivors of Epstein and Maxwell who raised issues including they’re “simultaneously investigating counsel’s claims regarding the provenance and nature of documents provided to and ultimately released by Congress.”
Maxwell was convicted of intercourse trafficking prices after a four-week trial in December 2021.
It is unclear how a lot new materials will likely be included within the information when they’re in the end launched, since some evidence got here out throughout Maxwell’s trial and Congress has launched a trove of records in current weeks.
Four ladies testified through the trial stating that Maxwell recruited them once they had been underaged women to give Epstein massages, which became sexual assault.
During the trial, the jurors heard from former staff of Epstein, together with his longtime pilot, and noticed pictures and movies taken of searches of Epstein’s properties. A memo pad of telephone messages left at Epstein’s Palm Beach property was additionally entered into proof, as had been flight logs, and monetary transactions involving Maxwell.
A inexperienced folding therapeutic massage desk from Epstein’s Florida property was additionally introduced into the courtroom.