Brace yourselves for another deluge of Epstein-linked information.
The Palm Beach Police Department, in the mid-2000s, did a very competent investigative job under the late lead detective Joseph Recarey, which would have been enough to send disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein to prison for decades.
Of course, once the prosecution was underway, political forces intervened, leading to the infamous ‘sweetheart deal’.
Yesterday (5), a federal judge in Florida approved the Donald J. Trump administration’s motion to unseal the grand jury transcripts from the initial federal investigation of Jeffrey Epstein in the mid-2000s.
The government will also be able ‘to modify any protective orders in place’ to ensure the public disclosure.
ABC News reported:
“U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith – a Trump appointee – determined that the language of the recently-enacted Epstein Transparency Act ‘overrides’ federal rules prohibiting the public disclosure of grand jury materials.
‘The Act applies to unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials that relate to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’, Smith wrote in an order Friday. ‘Consequently, the later-enacted and specific language of the Act trumps Rule 6’s prohibition on disclosure. Accordingly, it is ORDERED that United States’ Expedited Motion to Unseal Grand Jury Transcripts and Modify Protective Order…is GRANTED’.”
“This is the second time the DOJ has gone to those courts asking for the grand jury materials to be unsealed. Those earlier attempts – before the Epstein Transparency Act was passed, requiring the disclosure of materials related to Epstein’s cases within 30 days with certain exceptions — were rejected by each court.”
“Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida used two separate grand juries during their initial probes in the mid-2000s of Epstein’s alleged sex-trafficking of minors. Neither grand jury was asked to indict Epstein, and there was never a federal criminal prosecution of Epstein in Florida. Instead, Epstein and federal prosecutors negotiated a non-prosecution agreement which resulted in Epstein’s guilty pleas in state court.”
Two judges in New York still have to issue their decisions on the unsealing, which is expected to happen next week.
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