The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge to unseal grand jury testimony from the prosecution of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The move came amid growing pressure from both parties for the Trump administration to release more information about the case.

The request was filed in U.S. District Court in the New York City borough of Manhattan, where Epstein was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges six years ago when he was found dead by hanging in his jail cell. The New York City medical examiner ruled the death a suicide.

The government also sought the unsealing of grand jury testimony from the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite who in a 2021 trial was convicted of helping Epstein facilitate his sex-trafficking scheme and sentenced to 20 years in prison. S

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