A federal judge on Friday allowed the U.S. Department of Justice to release judicial documents and transcripts of testimony given to a grand jury during a case in Florida against pedophile Jeffrey Epstein on charges of sexual abuse and exploitation of minors.
The magistrate approved the disclosure, ruling that the law passed by Congress on November 18th to make Epstein-related documents public "modifies" the order that protected them as secret.
This norm, which was ratified by President Donald Trump, gives the Department of Justice a maximum period of 30 days to make public all files related to Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell that are not classified.
The grand jury case that can now be made public took place between 2005 and 2007 regarding the alleged abuses by the pedophile at his mansion in Palm Beach, Florida.
At the time, an investigation was launched into whether the millionaire had abused dozens of minors after several teenagers told police they had been hired to give sexual massages to the financier.
The case was closed after a plea deal with the prosecution in which Epstein pleaded guilty to only one victim.
It is unclear which documents will be made public or when they will be released, as these files were available to New York prosecutors when they investigated Epstein for sex trafficking in 2019.
Earlier this year, another judge rejected a similar proposal.
Epstein died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019, where he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
