A US judge on Tuesday granted Justice Department’s request to make public grand jury documents in the case involving Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is in prison for sex trafficking.

Reuters quoted the written order by District Judge Paul Engelmayer saying he would allow the unsealing of the documents because of a recent law passed by Congress, the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

He further said he was initiating a mechanism to protect victims from the release of materials that would identify them or might even invade their privacy.

“Contrary to DOJ’s depiction, the grand jury materials would not reveal new information of any consequence," Engelmayer wrote.

According to Reuters, the order followed a similar one from a judge in Florida on Friday that allowed for the uns

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