{"id":131341,"date":"2025-08-20T11:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/20\/manhattan-judge-declines-to-unseal-epstein-grand-jury-minutes\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T11:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:13:19","slug":"manhattan-judge-declines-to-unseal-epstein-grand-jury-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/20\/manhattan-judge-declines-to-unseal-epstein-grand-jury-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Judge Declines to Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Berman of the Southern District of New York wrote that the Justice Department failed to demonstrate “special circumstances” necessary to do so. He also pointed out that the investigative materials under the government’s control have far greater breadth and scope than the “snippet” represented by grand jury testimony.<\/p>\n

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U.S. District Court Judge Richard Berman of the Southern District of New York wrote that the Justice Department failed to demonstrate “special circumstances” necessary to do so. He also pointed out that the investigative materials under the government’s control have far greater breadth and scope than the “snippet” represented by grand jury testimony.<\/p>\n

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U.S. District Court Judge Richard Berman of the Southern District of New York wrote that the Justice Department failed to demonstrate “special circumstances” necessary to do so. He also pointed out that the investigative materials under the government’s control have far greater breadth and scope than the “snippet” represented by grand jury testimony. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/legal-news-uDYWCh.jpg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}