The Brief

Transcripts of secret grand jury testimony in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case won’t be released.

Federal prosecutors had asked to unseal the documents in an effort to calm suspicions about what the government knows about Epstein.

Maxwell, his socialite ex-girlfriend, was convicted of helping him prey on underage girls.

A judge on Monday denied a request to unseal transcripts from the grand jury that indicted Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Here’s what to know about the decision:

Ghislaine Maxwell case

The backstory:

Maxwell’s case has been the subject of heightened public focus since an outcry over the Justice Department’s statement last month saying that it would not be releasing any additional documents from the Epstein sex trafficking

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