A federal judge on Wednesday refused to unseal grand jury materials in Jeffrey Epstein 's criminal case, while slamming the Trump administration's request for those records as a "diversion" from the mountain of files on the notorious sex offender that the government has already compiled.

"A significant and compelling reason to reject" the request "is that the government has already undertaken a comprehensive investigation into the Epstein case and, not surprisingly, has assembled a 'trove' of Epstein documents, interviews, and exhibits," Judge Richard Berman wrote in a federal court ruling.

That trove of roughly 100,000 pages of files "dwarf[s] the 70 odd pages of Epstein grand jury materials," Berman wrote .

The Trump administration does not need the courts to approve the rel

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