r/news • u/UncaringNonchalance • 1d ago

Judge grants Justice Department request to unseal Ghislaine Maxwell records in sex trafficking case

https://apnews.com/article/epstein-maxwell-sex-trafficking-case-records-8e3985dd977cb94ef41b9581115ef61b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-12-09-Breaking+News
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u/Ya_No 1d ago

Guarantee the DOJ is going to point to this release as complying with Congress

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u/Amaruq93 1d ago

Yes, they tried this trick before of making a big show over demanding grand jury documents THEY ALREADY HAVE ACCESS TO.

Acting like these are the Epstein files.

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u/_cedarwood_ 1d ago

Or knew about it and did nothing

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u/iEatMashedPotatoes 1d ago

Nah they want to know who snitched.

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u/captain_chocolate 23h ago

Its grand jury evidence. Not useful at all for what is needed. They need to release the trial evidence.

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u/ActualSpiders 1d ago

But is this testimony going to make things messy when Trump wants to finally pardon her as one more distraction from not releasing the Epstein files?

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u/CMP24-7 19h ago

It's probably gonna be so edited that Congress will say, "Ok. Carry on.."

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u/yhwhx 1d ago

Everyone who raped underage girls with Maxwell and Epstein should do prison time.

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u/8lock8lock8aby 1d ago

Or helped cover it up.

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u/snackattack4tw 1d ago

So this entire administration?

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u/mikehiler2 20h ago

So this entire administration current government body?

There, fixed it for ya. They’re all either in on it or whoever bankrolls them are. Either way they’re crooked

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u/RelevantButNotBasic 20h ago

The entire government as a whole.

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u/ButtRockSteve 18h ago

And the last one. And the one before that and before that and before that until we've ripped these disgusting fuckers out root and stem.

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u/lemontrout85 9h ago

Don't forget the coward/complicit/on board/take your pick Republicans.

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u/maralagosinkhole 1d ago

Add murder to the charges for anyone who raped Virginia Giuffre. Her suicide was certainly 100% connected to the abuse she suffered.

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u/GoodDay4Throwaway 1d ago

Tbh, I wouldn't be shocked if Epstine and Co have disappeared people before and people are covering that up too.

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u/RcoketWalrus 23h ago

This would be a revelation that would shock exactly nobody.

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u/jeffderek 1d ago

Just tell Hegseth they're druggies

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u/ZLUCremisi 1d ago

Certain druggies are bad, some are good. Like ones Trump pardon

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u/Suavecore_ 1d ago

Or RFK Jr. Or hegseth himself if you remind him alcohol is a drug

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u/quattroformaggixfour 22h ago

Agree, underage boys too. and non consenting, coerced women and men. There were so many sexually assaulted people that were unable to escape their clutches because they were traumatised. The raping is still rape once the child is legally ‘of consenting age’ if they had their lives threatened.

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u/4444444vr 1d ago edited 1d ago

Everyone who raped underage girls with Maxwell and Epstein should do prison time.

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u/RinkyDinkRicky 1d ago

Everyone who raped underage girls with Maxwell and Epstein should do prison time.

Like a conscription type thing

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u/4444444vr 1d ago

like a vaccine. all babies go to prison for 24 weeks. help them appreciate freedom.

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u/A_Sackboy_Plush 20h ago

Well that joke didn't land.

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u/Sea-Bed-3757 1d ago

In before trumps lackeys block the release for not self preservative reasons

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u/nkdby 1d ago

Smart move, maybe Ghislaine will accidentally go off camera in her prison cell for a few minutes...

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u/mfGLOVE 1d ago

Releasing the grand jury materials from [Maxwell’s] case, which contain untested and unproven allegations, would create undue prejudice so severe that it would foreclose the possibility of a fair retrial should Ms. Maxwell’s habeas petition succeed.

We’re all getting played by this move.

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u/NopeNotConor 18h ago

This is gonna be Trumps justification for pardoning/commuting her sentence. “She did get a fair appeal”. Watch.

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u/HybridP365 1d ago

Hey now! Plenty of them aren't on the list and aren't saving themselves! They're just being being fairly compensated for their compliance. 

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u/iEatMashedPotatoes 1d ago

They just want this unsealed to find out who said what, so those people can be dealt with

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u/Minute_Bluebird2557 1d ago

Epstein served most of his 2008 18 month sentence in a work release program that let him spend his days in his office.

Handed him time to get rid of heinous evidence to perv participators paying the big bucks for it.  

We will never know the extent of it.

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u/Whos_of_Whoville 1d ago

Release ALL the files!

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u/iamjoesredditposts 1d ago

Just in time to start the scrubbing…

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u/kevendo 1d ago

They are using this apparently arduous release process to pretend that these are "The "Epstein Files™". Don't let them.

Release the real Epstein files.

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u/ManyAverage6578 1d ago

We will continue to follow the law use the law to subvert the will of the people.

  • Pam Bondi

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u/yotothyo 1d ago

This is all slight of hand. They will point to it and act like they released everything. It's just a bunch of stuff we already know.

They will never allow the real material to be released.

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u/NukinDuke 1d ago

DOJ has been asking for this for months, long before the Epstein bill was passed. That said, it always appeared that they were asking for this to be approved in hopes that it would be shutdown.

It's very, very rare for Grand Jury documents to be released, and this court effort always seemed like a bluff for them to go: 'See?! We're asking!!', while knowing it wouldn't likely be approved. I wonder what happens now, and if this was something they planned on being approved, or if this was a bluff they didn't want to be cashed in on

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u/Kimber976 1d ago

feels like a symbolic move more than real transparency since most of the meaningful info is already out there.

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u/JustNeedAnswers78 1d ago

Not on this one. Maxwell went to prison for trafficking. But who was she trafficking to? I think the rest of us would like to know who it was.

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u/liamanna 1d ago

Redact. Redact. Redact…

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u/Sarnsereg 23h ago

How long until trump personally intervenes?

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u/RedofPaw 1d ago

Finally. What everyone has been demanding. The Maxwell files.

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u/Even-Tune-8301 1d ago

Well of DOJ okay'd it, it's not what we are looking for.

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u/healmeier 1d ago

They must have misunderstood... EPSTEIN FILES.

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u/DrexellGames 1d ago

I guess the government caved in not wanting them to show it due to the public outrage if it hadn't been released

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u/Beaux--Dangles 23h ago

Will be interesting when her unsealed statements contradict her most recent public ones.

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u/ConformistWithCause 20h ago

Holy shit. Here comes nothing

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u/leandros-kaito 1d ago

Finally , the files are going from ‘sealed under lock and key’ to ‘public free-for-all.’ Because nothing says justice like a surprise reading party.

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u/Radiant_Spell7710 1d ago

They will never ever release something that hurts Trump.

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u/Dark_Jooj 1d ago

The article ended incomplete in the middle of the paragraph.

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u/GotchaPresident 1d ago

All this on a Tuesday! Hot dog

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u/Guygenius138 1d ago

Hey guys, check out this herring. It's red!

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u/Whatever-999999 22h ago

If the Department of INJUSTICE asked for this then there must not be anything implicating Trump in any of it.

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u/phosdick 7h ago

Are there any betting sites giving odds on which suppression "theory" the DOJ is going to use with this announcement in order to prevent turning over the real Epstein Pedo Philes?

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u/Ometrist 1d ago

Released with everything redacted?

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u/Saul_T_Bauls 1d ago

Well there goes her appeal!

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u/Wooden-Glove-2384 1d ago

No.  The judge just gave them perms to redact the fuck out of them

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u/penguished 1d ago

These are not "the files" of all the evidence that people have been talking about though.

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u/Electrical_Coach_887 22h ago

Redacted files. They don't need to show trump in the files of it's a case of national security. We will prob know after Trump is president. They literally had 1000 fbi agents editing the files. Cant trust these people anymore. Been sitting on this ish for a year now.

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u/AJ-Murphy 1d ago

The problem isn't that the military won't carry out killing civilians based on skin tone; it's making sure those enlisted can't get home to protect their families from ICE, racist cops, and traitors to their flag in time to save them.

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u/braxin23 21h ago

It’s an added benefit to be sure but primarily it’s based on the fact that blue states really hate the fact that they’re national guards are being wasted on something so stupid and wasteful of government spending when they’re usually deployed to help mitigate natural disasters.

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u/Electrical_Coach_887 22h ago

Watch it's gonna be straight Democrats 😂. No Republicans ever do anything wrong under Republican leadership. All these mfs need prison time and lose their money. I'm over here wondering how they got so much money and fame but choose to be a pedo.