A federal judge denied a request by the Trump administration to unseal the transcripts of grand jury proceedings related to a criminal investigation of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in Florida in the mid-2000s. The ruling does not affect other pending requests by the Department of Justice that seek to obtain transcripts of grand jury proceedings related to later federal investigations of Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell in New York. Jeffrey Epstein in 2004. Rick Friedman | Corbis News | Getty Images
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by the Trump administration to unseal the transcripts of grand jury proceedings related to a criminal investigation of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in Florida in the mid-2000s.
The ruling does not affect two other pending requests by the Department of Justice that seek to obtain transcripts