A federal judge in Florida on Friday ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from the federal sex trafficking cases of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith said a recently passed federal law ordering the release of records related to the cases overrode a federal rule prohibiting the release of matters before a grand jury.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed last month by President Donald Trump, compels the Justice Department, FBI and federal prosecutors to release by Dec. 19 the vast troves of material they’ve amassed during investigations into Epstein.

Other requests to unseal Epstein documents remain pending:

the 2006-2007 Florida grand jury investigation into Epstein,

his 2019 sex trafficking case in New York,

and Ghislaine Maxwell’s

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