Grand jury materials related to an abandoned federal probe into Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell have been ordered released by a judge in Florida.

U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith has demanded the Justice Department disclose nearly all records relating to an Epstein probe between 2005 and 2007, allowing it to bypass regulations that typically prohibit the release of grand jury material.

Smith, an appointee of President Donald Trump, did not set a deadline for releasing the materials.

The judge initially declined to order the release of the documents, citing a law passed in November that requires the attorney general to make publicly available “all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials in the possession of the Department of Justice.”

However,

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