Nov. 27 (UPI) -- A federal judge who oversaw the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday demanded prosecutors explain how they are protecting victims' privacy after the release of unredacted documents.
New York-based Judge Richard Berman issued the order in response to a letter raising alarm about how the names of some of Epstein's victims were included in a trove of documents released by Congress earlier this month.
The order comes amid a recent push for more transparency into the investigation of Epstein, a now-deceased financier who had ties to the wealthy and powerful.
However, Bradley Edwards and Brittany Henderson, attorneys representing the victims, wrote in a letter to Berman on Tuesday that transparency cannot "come at the expense of the privacy, safety and protection of sexual abuse and sex-trafficking victims."
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