Extra: DOJ Moves to Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Transcripts Amid Maxwell Appeal & UN Links - more here

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By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book

SDNY COURTHOUSE, July 18 – Past 5 pm Todd Blanche filed in SDNY asking to unseal the grand jury transcripts of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Blanche wrote "the privacy interests at stake on the other side of the balance are substantially diminished due to Epstein’s death. Of course, as noted above, the Department of Justice will work with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York to redact all victim-identifying information prior to any release. 6. For these reasons, this Court should conclude that the Epstein and Maxwell cases qualify as a matter of public interest, release the associated grand jury transcripts, and lift any preexisting protective orders."

With Ghislaine Maxwell in prison, she has reportedly offered to testify to Congress about Jeffrey Epstein, presumably for a pardon.

Inner City Press is on the case, noting on July 14 DOJ's opposition to Maxwell's appeal -

"that Epstein’s nonprosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida barred petitioner’s prosecution by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. That contention is incorrect" -

after having asked Maxwell herself question when she did a press conference in the UN. After that, Inner City Press was banned from the UN by SG Antonio Guterres. His spokesman Stephane Dujarric on July 14, 2025 refused to answer written questions, including:

On deadline, explain why Ghislaine Maxwell was granted a press conference in the UN briefing room, and why a UN correspondent who did a fundraiser with Ghislaine Maxwell - convicted of sex trafficking here in SDNY, and known at the time to be manager for Jeffrey Epstein - is allowed in daily and can ask questions, while Inner City Press which asked and asks remains banned, with 6/19/25 application to MALU pending, none of the promised (by Dujarric) answers to written questions like this provided

No answers.

On April 19, 2022 U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Loretta A. Preska held a proceeding to unseal some but not all documents. Inner City Press, which has published a book on the Maxwell trial here, and another book including the Larry Ray trial "John list" here, live tweeted it, thread here:

173-6 it will be sealed [or redacted.]

Jump cut to April 25, 2025, with Virginia Giuffre declared dead, reportedly by suicide. A redacted life. Rest in Peace.

Inner City Press continues reporting on the UN (where Ghislaine Maxwell was allowed a press conference and SG Antonio Guterres had a rep on her Terramar board (video here, story here). On June 19, 2025 Inner City Press applied to re-enter the UN to ask these questions, here.

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