Ministry of Justice requires Future Grand Jury Transcript In prosecution of long-term sexual abusers Jeffrey Epstein Former federal prosecutor said his ex-girlfriend is unlikely to generate a lot, if any, to meet the public’s need for new revelations of financiers’ crimes.
Attorney Sarah Krissoff is an assistant attorney in Manhattan from 2008 to 2021 Ghislaine Maxwell “Distracted.”
“president Trying to show his performance as if he is doing something here, that really doesn’t. ” Krisov told the Associated Press in a weekend interview.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche made a request Friday to require the judge to cancel transcripts from the grand jury lawsuit, leading to indictment of Epstein and Maxwell, saying: “Transparency to the American public is crucial to this administration.”
When the government tries to include The fire This is in the announcement that it will not release other documents from the Epstein investigation, although it has been expected to do so before.
Epstein died, and Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison
Epstein committed suicide In August 2019, he was 66 in his federal prison cell, a month after he was arrested on sex trafficking charges, while Maxwell, 63, is in service 20 years in prison Imposed after her December 2021 Conviction of sex trafficking Epstein lures girls into sexual abuse.
Manhattan federal prosecutors Krissoff and Joshua Naftalis, who had been in private practice for 11 years before entering 2023, said the grand jury’s speech was intentional.
Naftalis said the Southern District Attorney’s appearance on a grand jury was enough to get the indictment, but “this is not everything the FBI and investigators have brought to Maxwell and Epstein.”
“People want the whole document to be long. That’s not,” he said. He estimated that the transcript could reach up to a few hundred pages.
“It won’t be too much,” Krisov said, with an estimated length as low as 60 pages, “because the practice in southern New York is to put as little information as possible into a grand jury.”
“They basically sent the indictment to a grand jury. That’s what we’re going to see,” she said. “I just don’t think it’s that fun. … I don’t think it’s new.”
The former client said the grand jury’s transcript is unlikely to be long
Both former participants said that jury witnesses in Manhattan were often federal agents, summarizing their witness interviews.
This practice may conflict with public perceptions of certain state and federal grand jury lawsuits, where witnesses who may testify at trial have prolonged lawsuits before indictments or use grand juries as an investigative tool.
In Manhattan, federal prosecutors “are trying to get a specific result, so they’re very narrowly bringing the case and telling the grand jury what they want them to do.”
Krissoff predicts that the judge who presided over the Epstein and Maxwell cases will reject the government’s request.
With Maxwell, the petition was before the U.S. Supreme Court, so the appeal has not been exhausted yet. With Epstein, the allegations are linked to the Maxwell case, and despite Blanche’s claim to protect the victim’s identity, the anonymity of dozens of victims who have not yet been revealed is threatened.
“This is not a case of 50, 60, 80,” Krisov noted. “Someone is still in custody.”
The 1997 ruling of the Court of Appeal may be important
She said that despite a 1997 U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling for the Second Circuit, the judge said the judge had broad discretion and the public interest alone could justify the release of information from a large jury.
Krissoff called the Washington Justice Department officials increasingly direct demands and arguments in southern New York, where the prosecutor’s office has long been labeled “New York sovereign zone” to stay away from external influence.
“It is unheard of to have the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General intervene in one case,” she said.
Cheryl Bader, a former federal prosecutor and criminal law professor at Fordham Law School, said the judge who presided over the Epstein and Maxwell cases could take weeks or months of ruling.
“Especially in cases where witnesses or victims of sexual abuse (many of them minors) are involved in this case, the judge will be very cautious about the release of the judge,” she said.
Grand jury traditions may prevent release of transcripts
Bud said she didn’t see the government’s pursuit aimed at satisfying the public’s desire to explore conspiracy theories: “By better than – pardon puns, a good idea to protect the confidentiality of the grand jury.”
She added: “I’m sure all the prosecutors who really appreciate their confidentiality and special relationship with the grand jury are not happy that the Justice Department asked the court to release these transcripts.”
Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor who now practices private practice, called Trump’s comments and influence in Epstein’s affairs “unprecedented” and “very unusual” because he is the current president.
He said it was no surprise that some former prosecutors said in shock that the jury’s request was two days after Manhattan’s assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey was fired, two days after Manhattan’s Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey was fired.
“If federal prosecutors have to worry about the professional consequences of refusing to be with the political or personal agenda of powerful people, then we know that the Federal Justice Department is in a very different position in the last 30 years of my career,” he said.
Krissoff said the current environment where prosecutors are uneasy is shared by government employees she talks with other agencies, as part of her private practice.
“What I hear most often is that it’s a weird time. Things don’t work the way we’re used to,” she said.
