NEW YORK -- The Justice Department Monday renewed its request to unseal grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking cases, arguing they should be made public under a new law requiring the government to open its files on the late financier and his longtime confidante.

U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton cited the Epstein Files Transparency Act -- passed by Congress last week and signed into law by President Donald Trump -- in court filings asking Manhattan federal Judges Richard M. Berman and Paul A. Engelmayer to reconsider their decisions to keep the material sealed.

The Justice Department interprets the transparency act "as requiring it to publish the grand jury and discovery materials in this case," said the eight-page filings, which also bear the names o

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