Cue the noise.
Yup, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer denied the Trump administration's request to have the grand jury transcripts from Ghislaine Maxwell's 2021 sex trafficking case unsealed. The files are normally kept secret.
Here's Engelmayer via CNN:
'The Court therefore denies the Government's motion to unseal at the threshold. Contrary to the Government's depiction, the Maxwell grand jury testimony is not a matter of significant historical or public interest. Far from it,' Engelmayer wrote ...
'It consists of garden-variety summary testimony by two law enforcement agents. And the information it contains is already almost entirely a matter of longstanding public record, principally as a result of live testimony by percipient witnesses at the 2021 Maxwell trial,' Engelmayer wrote.
So I guess this wasn't really going anywhere in the first place.
But the judge doesn't stop there, and boy, oh boy does it get worse.
A member of the public, appreciating that the Maxwell grand jury materials do not
contribute anything to public knowledge, might conclude that the Government's motion for their unsealing was aimed not at ‘transparency' but at diversion - aimed not at full disclosure but at the illusion of such.
Maxwell recently was granted limited immunity while speaking to Trump's DOJ and it is still possible for the Trump administration to just go ahead and release the Epstein Files.
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