A Manhattan federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to release grand jury testimony in the federal case against late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Wednesday.
US District Judge Richard Berman wrote in a brief order that the feds had failed to demonstrate any “special circumstance” that would permit the unsealing of testimony that led to Epstein’s arrest in July 2019.
Epstein, 66, was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. The case has generated renewed interest this summer after the Justice Department and FBI released a joint memo July 6 determining the disgraced financier committed suicide and did not keep a “client list” of associates who shared his perverted desire for girls as young as 14 — contrary to widespread speculation.
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