The Department of Justice in late-night court filings on Tuesday gave federal judges additional information as part of its efforts to get grand jury proceedings related to notorious sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell unsealed.
The DOJ said it has now notified all but one of the victims mentioned in those grand jury transcripts.
Manhattan District Judge Paul Engelmayer last week had pointedly noted that the DOJ may not have notified Epstein and Maxwell’s victims before it asked judges to unseal those transcripts in the face of pressure on the Trump administration to release information about the investigations.
The DOJ earlier in July said it would not release information in the Epstein case files, reneging on multiple promises to do so.
That announcement sparked a backlash that led the Trump administration to seek the release of the grand jury transcripts, and to have a top DOJ official last week interview Maxwell to ask her about possible other abusers.
