DOJ asks federal court to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts

(NewsNation) — U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi connected Friday asked a national tribunal to unseal transcripts from the expansive assemblage that was investigating enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein anterior to his decease successful jail.

Although specified records are typically kept secret, Bondi asked successful her question that the New York Southern District national tribunal marque an exception, portion protecting the identities of victims, fixed the “extensive nationalist interest” successful the case. Earlier this month, the Department of Justice and FBI concluded grounds did not enactment investigating “uncharged 3rd parties," Bondi noted, a decision she said she inactive supports.

The effectual closing of the Epstein lawsuit has created a rift wrong the governmental basal that supports President Donald Trump. Conspiracy theories person abounded astir the contents of records that person not been made public.