A federal judge in Florida on Friday agreed that the Justice Department may unseal grand jury transcripts tied to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, ruling that a new federal transparency law overrides decades-old secrecy protections.
U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith held that the Epstein Files Transparency Act of 2025, signed by President Donald Trump on Nov. 19, supersedes the confidentiality rules governing federal grand juries, according to a two-page decision. The statute requires the attorney general to publish all unclassified DOJ records connected to the late Epstein and his former partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, within 30 days.
The ruling does not immediately release the transcripts, leaving it to the DOJ to determine the timing and method of publication. Still, it marks the first concrete step toward
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