A federal judge in New York cleared the way for the Justice Department to release long-sealed grand jury materials from its sex-trafficking investigation into the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein , marking another major step in the government’s race to comply with a new transparency law that requires all Epstein-related files to be published by Dec. 19.

Judge Richard Berman granted the department’s request in a four-page order on Wednesday , concluding that the Epstein Files Transparency Act , signed by President Donald Trump , overrides the decades-old secrecy rules that previously kept the records under seal. He stressed that any disclosures must be made “in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act and with the unequivocal right of Epstein victims to have t

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