Judge won't unseal Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts

NEW YORK — Transcripts of secret grand jury testimony in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case won't be released, a judge decided Monday.

What You Need To Know • Transcripts of secret grand jury testimony in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case won't be released • Judge Paul A. Engelmayer in New York said Monday in a written ruling the government had suggested the materials could be released publicly "casually or promiscuously," which would risk "unraveling the foundations of secrecy upon which the grand jury is premised" and eroding confidence by persons called to testify before future grand juries • Federal prosecutors had asked to unseal the documents, in an effort to calm a whirlpool of suspicions about what the government knows about Jeffrey Epstein, a well-connected