Bondi files to release sealed Epstein grand jury transcripts

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Source: The Hill

11/21/25 11:08 PM ET


Attorney General Pam Bondi has filed an expedited motion seeking the release of the grand jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein case amid an aggressive push by lawmakers to release all files related to the late convicted sex offender. Bondi filed the motion in the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida, leveraging the enactment of the Epstein Files Transparency Act earlier this week as reason to unseal the confidential materials.

“In the light of the Act’s clear mandate, the Court should authorize the Department of Justice to release the grand jury transcripts and lift any preexisting protective orders that would otherwise prevent public disclosure,” the motion reads. It also clarifies that the Justice Department will redact any sensitive information from the files, such as the names of victims and other personal, identifying information.

Trump originally directed Bondi to release the Epstein case’s grand jury transcripts in July amid public furor over the administration’s initial refusal to release files related to the disgraced financier. “Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval,” Trump posted on his social platform Truth Social. Bondi replied in the affirmative in a post on X.

But the administration’s efforts to unseal grand jury transcripts hit a wall in federal court. Grand jury trial materials are normally kept sealed to protect the reputations of people under government investigation and to more easily obtain truthful testimony from witnesses. The Justice Department’s (DOJ) summer request for a New York federal court to unseal the jury’s transcripts due to “extensive public interest” was denied.

Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5618441-epstein-grand-jury-transcripts-bondi/

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1. Who didn't see this coming?

It's time for all those who have copies of some or all of the files to release them.

[Scrivener7]

2. Yep. Shaking my damn head.

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3. DoJ has had 20 years to prosecute these cases

under 4 different Presidents. If they haven't done it by now, they aren't going to.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. This is just another attempt at distraction

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5. This is the important phrase

where it says DOJ :

"will redact any sensitive information from the files, such as the names of victims and other personal, identifying information. "

They will not only redact the names or information of victims but the perpetrators as well. The reason we know that is that they left the door open to a broad interpretation of "sensitive information" by saying "such as" which means that is only an example. Also they didn't say "names and other personal , identifying information of victims" they switched it around so that it applies to more than just victims.

I see the weasel words of Todd Blanche at work here. I also think if they get this ruling for their language they will use that as basis for how they treat all of the files and not just the grand jury transcripts.

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6. Interesting that she's only asking for the S.D. Florida transcripts

There are four separate Grand Jury proceedings relevant to the Jeffrey Epstein case: two grand juries convened in the Southern District of Florida in 2005 and 2007, respectively, one convened with respect specifically to Epstein in the southern district of New York in 2019, and a grand jury convened specifically with respect to Maxwell in 2020. The two New York grand juries handed down indictments. The florida grand jury was prepared to consider a 60 count indictment against Epstein in May 2007, but ultimately Alex Acosta agreed to a sweetheart non-prosecution deal with Epstein under which the federal case was discontinued in return for Epstein's agreement to plead guilty to two lesser state-level prostitution charges, register as a sex offender, and accept a state prison sentence of 18 months (of which he served 13 months with work-release privileges).

In July of this year, Bondi filed motions to unseal all four grand jury transcripts, and was shot down in each instance. Its interesting that she is only asking for the florida grand jury transcripts to be unsealed. In all likelihood, those transcripts contain more information that the New York transcripts -- indeed, the judges rejecting the July requests for the New York transcripts indicated that those transcripts were very short and contained almost no material that had already been made public.