00:01A U.S. judge ordered Friday to unseal the grand jury transcripts of the Epstein case in Florida.
00:08The court order was in response to a request made by the Department of Justice itself to declassify the case files.
00:14The department had renewed its request for the material to be made public last month after Congress passed
00:19and President Trump signed a law requiring the attorney general to disclose records related to the investigation.
00:25The order is a significant legal turn of events as the same court has rejected similar requests in 2005 and 2007
00:32arguing the need to maintain the secrecy of grand jury deliberations.
00:36Multi-millionaire Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell in 2019 while awaiting trial
00:41for running a sophisticated network of shallow sex trafficking and abuse.
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