A federal judge has rejected the Trump administration’s request to unseal grand jury materials from Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking case on Monday, assailing the plea as a “distraction.” The Justice Department (DOJ) had sought to release testimony and exhibits from the case against Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice,

U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said anyone who was following the Jeffrey Epstein case would "learn next to nothing new" by reading the grand jury materials.

A federal judge has rejected the Trump administration’s request to unseal grand jury materials from the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case. The Justice Department has sought to release grand jury testimony and exhibits from cases involving Jeffrey Epstein in New York.