NEW YORK — A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday granted the Justice Department’s motion to unseal the records of the grand jury investigation of Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein who is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking a minor and other counts.

The judge, Paul A. Engelmayer, cited in his ruling a law passed by Congress requiring the Justice Department to release all its files on Epstein by Dec. 19.

But the opinion makes clear that grand jury transcripts will be only a small part of a large trove of materials that the Justice Department has said it intends to release under the new law.

The department had also asked Engelmayer to modify a protective order issued at the beginning of Maxwell’s case that maintained

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