Aug. 8 (UPI) -- The Department of Justice asked New York judges to unseal more evidence in the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell criminal cases, but it still wants to shield "personal identifying information."
This is an expansion of Attorney General Pam Bondi's earlier request to courts to unseal five days of grand jury testimony in relation to the cases.
In July, a Florida judge refused to unseal transcripts related to a criminal case brought against Epstein for sex charges in the early 2000s. That case was resolved in a controversial plea deal that saw the billionaire financier serve about a year in prison.
The latest request is about Epstein's 2019 criminal case in New York, which was dropped after he died by suicide in his jail cell. It also asks to unseal grand jury evidence in Maxwell's case, which ended in her conviction and sentence of 20 years in prison.
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