NEW YORK — The Justice Department can publicly release investigative materials from a sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell , the longtime confidant of Jeffrey Epstein , a federal judge said on Tuesday.

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A federal judge says the Justice Department can publicly release investigative materials from a sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime confidant of Jeffrey Epstein

Judge Paul A. Engelmayer ruled Tuesday after the Justice Department in November asked two judges in New York to unseal grand jury transcripts and exhibits from Maxwell and Epstein’s cases, along with investigative materials that could amount to hundreds or thousands of previously unreleased documents

The ruling, in the wake of the passage last month of the Epstein

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