Attorney General Pam Bondi has asked New York Judges to unseal the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury documents, invoking the newly passed Epstein Files Transparency Act requiring the documents to be released within 30 days. 

Epstein's grand jury indictment occurred in 2019, and a month later he was found hanging in his jail cell of an apparent suicide--at least no one was able to prove otherwise.

Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of participating in the sex trafficking operation and is serving a 20-year sentence for her part in the conspiracy.

Bondi's earlier request was denied to protect the privacy of the grand jury.

Overriding intent

"The Act manifests a congressional intent to override some of the underlying bases for grand jury secrecy," Bondi wrote toEpstein Judge Richard Berman and Maxwell Judge Paul Engelmayer.

The law said that any information that could "jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution" can be redacted.

A co-author of the bill, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), is now trying to say that recent investigations into Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, and Reid Hoffman were engineered by Trump to avoid having the files fully released, but this was not even mentioned by Bondi.

Trump had campaigned on releasing the Epstein files, but went back on it once he was in office.

He said the files were a "Democrat hoax," especially when they mentioned him.

Trying to obfuscate?

It has been established that Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago in 2007 for "creepy behavior" toward some of his female staff members.

This was a year before Epstein was convicted for solicitation of a minor, but the two were friends for a good 25 years before that happened.

Released emails claimed that Trump knew about Epstein's sex trafficking activities and wondered why he didn't make his knowledge public.

No Epstein victims have said that Trump ever did anything wrong, and Maxwell has said the same thing.

Berman argued that the information in the grand jury materials was only a fraction of the DOJ's information, so it could be yet another attempt to obfuscate and hide the full extent of who was infolved in the activities.