DOJ Says Releasing Epstein Transcripts Serves ‘Public Interest’ in New Court Filing

Justice Department lawyers said on July 29 that the only witness at Jeffrey Epstein’s grand jury was an FBI agent.

Jeffrey Epstein (C) appears in court in West Palm Beach, Fla., on July 30, 2008. Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on the evening of July 29 in a court filing said that releasing grand jury transcripts related to the case against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is in the “public interest.”

The new filing, which was submitted in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, came after a judge asked the DOJ for more information in a bid to have the files released. Last week, a judge in Florida rejected the DOJ’s push to release grand jury materials in a separate bid.