A federal judge in New York ruled that the Department of Justice can release grand jury materials from the criminal prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell.

US District Judge Paul Engelmayer, who had previously denied a request by the government to allow the release of transcripts and other evidence, allowed it in an opinion on Tuesday in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Donald Trump signed last month.

The 63-year-old Maxwell was convicted of participating in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of women and girls and is serving a 20 year sentence in a Texas prison. The US Supreme Court rejected her bid to overturn the conviction in October.

In the opinion, Engelmayer criticized the Justice Department for “paying lip service to Maxwell’s and Epstein’s victims” while

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