Judge rejects Trump administration request to unseal Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts

<p>Judge wrote transcripts from case of Jeffrey Epstein associate couldn’t be released because it would risk ‘unraveling secrecy’ of grand jury</p><p>Dismissing it as little more than a “diversion,” a federal judge in New York has formally rejected the Trump-led US justice department’s request to release transcripts of pre-indictment, grand jury interviews with witnesses in the case of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ghislaine-maxwell">Ghislaine Maxwell</a>, the convicted sex trafficker and associate of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/jeffrey-epstein">Jeffrey Epstein</a>.</p><p>Judge Paul Engelmayer wrote that the transcripts could not be released publicly – “casually or promiscuously” – as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump’s</a> government <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/30/epstein-maxwell-grand-jury-transcripts">had pushed for</a> because it would risk “unraveling the foundations of secrecy upon which the grand jury is premised”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/11/trump-epstein-maxwell-transcripts">Continue reading...</a>