'There Is No 'There' There:' Judge Won't Unseal Grand Jury Docs in Ghislaine Maxwell Case

U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer said that his review of the documents showed that they contained “garden-variety” testimony from law enforcement agents that was already known to the public—not the type of information justifying taking the “extraordinary step” of revealing grand jury materials. “[The U.S. Department of Justice’s] entire premise—that the Maxwell grand jury materials would bring to light meaningful new information about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s crimes, or the Government’s investigation into them—is demonstrably false,” Engelmayer said.