Materials Big Jury Ghislaine Maxwell to remain sealed, the judges’ rules

The US judge ruled on the materials of the large jury in the Girl Maxwell Trade case, remains sealed, saying that the creation of their public “does not reveal new information about any consequences”.

The Justice Department asked Judge Paul Engemeer to abandon the documents, seeking anger of anger among President Donald Trump supporters about this decision not to release all federal files in the Maxwell Association of the deceased sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Maxwell, currently serviced 20-year-old prison term For crimes related to Epstein, opposing the expanding of materials.

The judge wrote that it was important to protect the mystery of the great jurors who decide whether the people accused of crimes should be charged.

There are special circumstances when this secrecy is violated, Judge Engemeier wrote in his decision on 31 pages.

But he wrote that “the application of the exclusion accidentally or the disorder, since the government’s petition for a short artificial jury that proposes here” to harm the large jury. He could, he wrote, established a precedent when people did not believe that the trial would be kept secret, which could prevent witnesses from testimony and to focus exclusively on the merit of the case.

He rejected the government’s argument that most of the information given to the large jury was published during her trial, although he agreed that “a representative of the public, familiar with Maxwell, who considered the materials of the great jury … So, to learn nothing new.”

The materials “do not identify any person except Epstein and Maxwell as sexual contacts with a minor” and “do not discuss or determine Epstein or Maxwell client,” he wrote.

63 -year -old Maxwell was convicted in December 2019 and was Recently moved From prison in Florida to a new minimum security facility in Texas.

Last week, One of her accusers On the borders of the court in New York that she should remain in prison for the rest of her life.

BBC addressed Maxwell’s lawyers for comment.

Last month, she was interviewed by the Ministry of Justice officials in accordance with the Trump administration directive for the collection and release of reliable evidence concerning the Epstein case.

As a result, Trump pledged to release what “Epstein files” are known. But this summer, the Ministry of Justice and the FBI said they came to the conclusion that Epstein did not keep the “customer list” And that the Ministry of Justice will not make additional files.

In response to Trump’s reaction, Bondi should release “everything she thinks is accurate.” Meanwhile, the Congress Committee sent a summons to the Ministry of Justice related to federal investigations against Epstein and Maxwell, which have been returning for 20 years.

The president, who was friends with the Epstein, denied previous knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and said he and the financier who died in federal care, waiting for trial, fell out in the early 2000s.