ByAlison Durkee,
Forbes Staff.
Grand jury materials from Jeffrey Epstein’s New York criminal case, which led to his 2019 arrest, will soon be released, a federal judge ruled Wednesday—meaning all grand jury materials in Epstein-related prosecutions will shortly be made public, after other judges in Florida and New York already greenlighted documents coming out in other cases.
U.S. District Judge Richard Berman ordered grand jury materials from the federal government’s prosecution of Epstein to be unsealed, which include transcripts of the grand jury proceedings and some evidence shown to the grand jury as they decided whether to indict the financier.
While Berman had rejected a previous request to make the documents public, he changed his mind in light of the newly passed law requiring the federal government to release its files on Epstein by Dec. 19.
