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The trump DOJ is seeking the release of these grand jury transcripts because there is nothing there that will implicate trump. There are no witness statements or other material that is relevant to what people want to know
DOJ says Epstein, Maxwell grand jury transcripts only consist of law enforcement testimony
— Mybuddysully (@mybuddysully.bsky.social) 2025-07-30T13:56:51.310Z
https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-epstein-maxwell-grand-jury-transcripts-consist-law/story?id=124198327
DOJ faced a deadline by a judge in the Southern District of New York to submit a memorandum in support of unsealing the Epstein- and Maxwell-related grand jury materials to the court.
"Here, there was one witnessan FBI agentduring the Epstein grand jury proceedings," the filing says. "There were two witnessesthe same FBI agent from the Epstein grand jury proceedings and a detective with the NYPD who was a Task Force Officer with the FBIs Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Forceduring the Maxwell grand jury proceedings."

MichMan
(15,540 posts)She got 20 years.
H2O Man
(77,550 posts)are not the Epstein files people are demanding. They know the judge will not release them. The grand jury bit is a distraction.
We want the evidence from the investigations, depositions, and civil trials.
CincyDem
(7,164 posts)For the sake of brevity, focus and predictability...most grand jury witnesses are law enforcement. A policeman can testify to a grand jury about things he was told by other witnesses where in a trial, those original witness would be obligated to testify.
Also, if I'm not mistaken, prosecutors are not required to present the jury with exculpatory evidence unless there's a specific question about a specific point from a member of the grand jury.
Since grand jury testimony is confidential, there's no real stats on it but I think most prosecutors would agree that "retail" witness are always riskier than the pros.
This is way it's said "even a mediocre prosecutor should be able to get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich". It's a deck well stacked in the prosecution's favor.
LetMyPeopleVote
(166,992 posts)Grand jury documents in Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwells cases only include interviews with law enforcement and do not include any testimony from Epsteins victims directly, the Justice Department confirmed in a filing late Tuesday, further suggesting the grand jury materials may not include any explosive details the public wants as the Trump administration pushes to release them instead of the FBIs full Epstein files.
Link to tweet
https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/epstein-grand-jury-transcripts-don-t-include-any-interviews-with-victims-doj-says/ar-AA1JAtsT
The DOJ submitted a court filing late Tuesday further laying out its case for why the grand jury materials should be released, as federal law only allows those documents to be unsealed under very limited circumstances.
As part of their filing, prosecutors noted the only witness to testify to the grand jury in Epsteins case was an FBI agent, while Maxwells grand jury included testimony from the same FBI agent and a NYPD detective who had been a Task Force Officer with the FBIs Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.
That means jurors did not hear from any of Epsteins victims themselves during the grand jury proceedings, and any grand jury transcripts would likely only include law enforcement testifying about evidence in the case, rather than that evidence directly.
H2O Man
(77,550 posts)but them cares about the grand jury transcripts. That is not "the Epstein files." It's a mere distraction, that no one should pay attention to.