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Judge rejects bid to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts from Florida probe.

A U.S. judge on Wednesday denied a bid from the Justice Department to unseal the transcripts related to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in South Florida, the first ruling in a series of attempts by President Donald Trump鈥檚 administration to release more information on the case. The Justice Department has pending requests to unseal transcripts in Manhattan federal court related to a later indictment brought against Mr. Epstein and his former associate Ghislaine Maxwell. U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg found that the Justice Department鈥檚 request in Florida did not fall into any of the exceptions to rules requiring grand jury material to be kept secret.

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