Former Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has asked a federal judge to deny the Trump administration’s request to release grand jury transcripts.
Aug. 5 Former Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell on Tuesday asked a federal judge to deny the Trump administration’s request to release grand jury transcripts from her case.
U.S. District of Southern New York Judge Paul Engelmayer has refused to allow Maxwell to review the transcripts, her attorney, David Markus, said on Tuesday in a letter opposing the Trump administration’s motion to unseal the grand jury testimony.
Because Maxwell does not know what the grand jury transcripts say while she is appealing the case, she must oppose their release, Markus told the court.
«Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Ghislaine Maxwell is not», Markus said.
«Whatever interest the public may have in Epstein, that interest cannot justify a broad intrusion into grand jury secrecy in a case where the defendant is alive, her legal options are viable and her due process rights remain», he added.
After Epstein committed suicide while jailed and awaiting trial in 2019, Markus said federal prosecutors «made Maxwell the face of his crimes.
