The Trump administration appears to have hit another dead end in its desperate efforts to provide some semblance of closure in the years-long saga of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein .

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York denied the Justice Department’s order to unseal grand jury records related to the prosecution of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell , who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence on sex trafficking charges. Not only that, Engelmayer blasted the very premise of the motion, suggesting in blunt terms that Trump and his allies in government wanted the files published not in the interest of actual disclosure but as a stunt meant to silence any further questions about the case.

Calling the government’s arguments

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