An application for Ministry of Justice Transal Grand Jury Transcript When persecution of chronic sexual abuse Jeffrey Epstein And his former girlfriend is unlikely that a lot, if at all, produce a lot to satisfy the appetite of the public for new revelations about the financier’s crimes, say former federal prosecutors.
Right Ghislaine Maxwell “A distraction.”
“The President Try to present himself as if he is doing something here, and it’s really nothing, ”said Krissoff of the Associated Press in a weekend interview.
The deputy attorney of general attorney, Todd Blanche, made the application on Friday and asked the judges to determine transcripts from the Grand jury procedure, which led to charges against Epstein and Maxwell and said: “Transparency to the American public is of the utmost importance for this administration.”
The request came when the administration tried to be included The firestorm This was followed by his announcement that it would not publish any additional files from the Epstein probe, although this was previously promised.
Epstein is dead while Maxwell served a 20-year prison sentence
Epstein killed itself At the age of 66 in his federal prison cell in August 2019, one month after his arrest for sex trade, while the 63 -year -old Maxwell served one serves one 20-year-old prison sentence imposed after their December 2021 Convention of sex trade So that girls from Epstein can be sexually abused.
Krissoff and Joshua Naftalis, a Manhattan public prosecutor before entering private practice in 2023, said that the Grand Jury presentations were deliberately short.
NAFTALIS said that the public prosecutors of the southern district are currently present a large jury enough to receive an indictment, but “it will not be everything the FBI and the investigators found out about Maxwell and Epstein.”
“People want the entire file of so long. It’s just not what that is,” he said, estimated that the transcripts mean at most a few hundred pages.
“It won’t be much,” said Krissoff and estimated the length on 60 pages “,” because the southern district of New York practice is to bring as little information as possible to the Grand jury. “
“They basically feed the charges to the Grand jury. We’ll see that,” she said. “I just think it won’t be so interesting. … I don’t think it will be something new.”
Ex-pro- say that the transcript of the Grand jury is unlikely
Both former rehearsal recutors said that witnesses to the Grand Jury in Manhattan are generally federal agents who summarize their interviews with witnesses.
This practice could be conflict with the public perception of some state and federal state jury, in which witnesses who probably testify in a procedure before Grand juries during lengthy proceedings or when Grand is used as an investigation instrument.
In Manhattan, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office “try to achieve a certain result so that they present the case very closely and inform the Grand jury about what to do,” said Krissoff.
Krissoff predicted that judges who presiding the cases of Epstein and Maxwell rejected the government’s application.
Maxwell is a petition in front of the US Supreme Court, so that appeals were not exhausted. With Epstein, the fees with the case of Maxwell and the anonymity of dozens of victims relate to the public, although Blanche asked to protect the victim identities.
“This is not a 50, 60, 80th year,” said Krissoff. “There is still someone in custody.”
The judgment of the 1997 Court of Appeal could be important
She said, quoted “public intrigue, interest and excitement” about a case to convince a judge to publish the transcripts, although the 2nd court of appeals by the US call from 1997 decided that the judges have a broad discretion and that only public interest can justify the release of information about the release of Grand Jury.
Krissoff called it “stunningly strange” that officials from the Washington Ministry of Justice are increasingly submitting arguments in the southern district of New York, where the public prosecutor has long been classified as “sovereign District of New York” for his independence.
“The Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General in an Sdny case is unknown,” she said.
Cheryl Bader, a former public prosecutor and criminal school of the Fordham Law School, said that judges who led the cases of Epstein and Maxwell could take weeks or months to rule.
“Especially here, in which the case witnesses or victims of sexual abuse, many of whom are minors, the judge will be very careful what the judge published,” she said.
The tradition of confidentiality of the Grand Jury could block the release of transcripts
Bader said that she had not seen the government’s search to satisfy the public’s wish to explore conspiracy theories, “Trumping-das word feature-the well-established ideas for protecting the confidentiality of the Grand jury process.”
“I am sure that all the prosecutors who really appreciate the confidentiality and the special relationship with the Grand jury are not happy that Doj asks the court to publish these transcripts,” she added.
Mitchell Epner, a former public prosecutor in private practice, described Trump’s comments and influence in the Epstein matter as “unprecedented” and “extraordinarily unusual” because he is a sitting president.
He said it was not surprising that some former prosecutors are alerted that the request to have the materials of the Grand jury was relocated two days after the released of the US lawyer of Manhattan, Maurene Comey, who worked on the cases of Epstein and Maxwell.
“If the public prosecutor has to worry about the professional consequences of rejection of the political or personal agenda of powerful people, then we are in a completely different place when I understood the Federal Ministry in the past 30 years of my career,” he said.
Krissoff said that the uncertain environment in which current prosecutors feel uneasy is shared by government employees with which she speaks in other agencies as part of her work in private practice.
“What I hear most often is that this is a strange time. Things don’t work as we have used to working,” she said.
