Ghislaine Maxwell’s defense team told the court on Tuesday that it opposes a judge unsealing grand jury transcripts in her sex trafficking case after the Trump Department of Justice moved to unseal them.
Maxwell’s attorneys wrote in court papers that the unsealing would jeopardize her appeal to the Supreme Court and that their client could not take an “informed position” since the court had declined to let her defense team see the transcripts in advance.
“Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Ghislaine Maxwell is not,” her attorney wrote. “Whatever interest the public may have in Epstein, that interest cannot justify a broad intrusion into grand jury secrecy in a case where the defendant is alive, her legal options are viable, and her due process rights remain.”
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The move by Maxwell, while expected, adds to the obstacles the DOJ must overcome to release grand jury transcripts from Epstein’s and Maxwell’s cases. The department had requested the material after President Donald Trump called for Attorney General Pam Bondi to do more to assuage public outcry about the DOJ’s initial decision last month to withhold any further information about Epstein’s case.Â
Adding to the mounting pressure was a subpoena issued by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., on Tuesday to the DOJ seeking Epstein’s full case file by Aug. 19.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
