New York (AP) – A Justice Department Request Understand the grand jury tape In prosecution of old sexual abusive Jeffrey Epstein Former federal prosecutors say that his ex -girlfriend to satisfy public hunger for new revelations about financial crimes, if nothing is likely to produce anything, former federal prosecutors say.
From 2008 to 2021, an assistant American Attorney Attorney Sarah Chrisoff invited a request to Epstein’s prosecution and captured British Sochelite in Manhattan Ghishline Maxwell “A distraction.”
, chairman Trying to present himself as if he is doing something here and this is really nothing, ”Chrisoff told the Associated Press in a weekend interview.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blancch requested on Friday, asked the judges to ignore the tape from the grand jury proceedings, resulting in prosecution against Epstein and Maxwell, saying that “transparency for the American public is extremely important for this administration.”
As a request, it was requested that the administration demanded to join The firstorm After the announcement that it would not release additional files from Epstein investigation despite promising in advance.
Epstein is dead while Maxwell serves 20 years in jail
Epstein killed himself At the age of 66 in his federal jail cell in August 2019, a month after arrest on sex smuggling charges, while serving Maxwell, 63, 20 years jail sentence Put after December 2021 Sex trafficking punishment To woo girls to sexually abused by Epstein.
Manhattan Federal Prosecutor, Chrisoff and Joshua Nftalis said that grand jury presentations are deliberately brief for 11 years before entering private practice in 2023.
Nafalis said that the Southern District Prosecutors present sufficiently to get an indictment for a grand jury, but “that’s not everything that FBI and investigators have discovered about Maxwell and Epstein.”
He said, “People want full file.
“It’s not going to be much,” Chrisoff said, the length estimate is estimated to be less than 60 pages “because for the practice of the southern district of New York, putting less information in the grand jury as much as possible.”
“They basically feed the prosecution for a spoonful of grand jury. That’s what we are going to see,” he said. “I think it’s not interesting. … I don’t think it’s going to be anything new.”
Pre-prosecutors say the grand jury transcript is unlikely to not be long.
Both pre-prosecutors said that the grand jury witnesses in Manhattan are usually federal agents who summarize their witnesses.
This practice may struggle with the public perception of some state and federal grand jury proceedings, where witnesses are likely to testify in a test, which are brought before the Grand Juris during long proceedings before the prosecution or when the grand jerses are used as an investigation tool.
In Manhattan, the federal prosecutor is “trying to get a special result, so they present the case very narrowly and inform the gorgeous jury what they want to do,” Chrisoff said.
Chrisoff predicted that Epstein and Maxwell judges would reject the government’s request.
With Maxwell, a petition is before the US Supreme Court, so the appeals have not ended. Along with Epstein, the allegations belong to the Maxwell case and the oblivion of the victims’ scores that are not made public are at stake, although Blanches requested that the victim identity be protected.
“This is not 50-, 60-, 80 years old case,” said Chrisoff. “Someone is still in custody.”
The appeal may be a matter of the court’s 1997 decision
He said that it was not enough to convince a judge to convince a judge, citing “public conspiracy, interest and enthusiasm” about a case that despite the decision by the 1997 US Circuit Court of Appeals, the tapes were asked to release the tapes despite the decision, stating that the judges have a comprehensive discretionary rights and can prove to be justified alone.
Chrisoff called it a “fanatic strange” that the Washington Department of Justice Department has been rapidly filed directly to requests and arguments in the southern district of New York, where the prosecutor’s office has long been given the label of “Sovereign District of New York” for his freedom with external influence.
“Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General is unheard of medaling in an SDNY case,” she said.
Cheryl Badar, a former federal prosecutor and professor of the Fordham Law School Criminal Act, said Epstein and Judges presiding over Maxwell may take weeks or months to rule.
“Especially here where the case included witnesses or sexual abuse victims, many of which are young, the judges are going to be very cautious what the judge releases,” he said.
The tradition of grand jury secrecy can prevent the release of tape
Bedder said he did not see the government’s discovery, aimed at fulfilling the desire to find out the principles of the conspiracy of the public, “forgiving Trumping-Saja-the well-established perceptions to protect the confidentiality of the grand jury process.”
He said, “I am sure that all line prosecutors who actually appreciate privacy and special relations are with a grand jury, not happy that the DOJ is asking the court to release these tapes,” he said.
Mitchell Anener, a former federal prosecutor now in private exercise, called Trump’s comments and impact in Epstein case “unprecedented” and “extraordinaryly unusual” because he is a sitting president.
He said that it was not surprising that some former prosecutors were worried that Manhattan’s assistant American Attorney Mauurin Comi’s firing was requested to ignore the grand jury material two days after the firing, who worked in Epstein and Maxwell cases.
“If federal prosecutors will have to worry about the professional results of the powerful people refusing to go with the political or individual agenda, then we are in a very different place, as much as I understood the Federal Justice Department in the last 30 years of my career,” he said.
Chrisoff stated that the uncertain atmosphere in which the current prosecutors feel unheard of are shared by government employees, which he speaks as part of his work in private practice with other agencies.
He said, “The thing I hear most often is a strange time. Things are not working the way we are used to do their work,” he said.