Trump/Epstein: Administration Better Placed to Release Files then Courts

Release the files..

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The Trump administration is in a better position than the federal courts to release materials that would satisfy public curiosity about Jeffrey Epstein, US District Judge Richard Berman said.

“A significant and compelling reason to reject the Government’s position in this litigation is that the Government has already undertaken a comprehensive investigation into the Epstein case and, not surprisingly, has assembled a ’trove’ of Epstein documents, interviews and exhibits,” the judge wrote. “And, the Government committed that it would share its Epstein investigation materials with the public.

“The government’s 100,000 pages of Epstein files and materials dwarf the 70 odd pages of Epstein grand jury materials,” the ruling said.

In rejecting the Justice Department’s bid to unseal records from the grand jury that indicted Epstein in 2019, Manhattan-based US District Judge Richard Berman wrote that the 70-odd pages of materials the grand jury saw paled in comparison to the 100,000 pages the government has from its Epstein investigation but is not releasing.

The judge said the bid to persuade him to unseal the records was an apparent distraction from the Justice Department’s decision in July not to release its files and directly cited another judge’s decision earlier this month not to release similar materials from the grand jury that indicted Epstein’s longtime girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell

“The instant grand jury motion appears to be a ‘diversion’ from the breadth and scope of the Epstein files in the Government’s possession,” Berman wrote.