New details about Epstein grand jury witnesses revealed

Just two witnesses provided testimony in the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury proceedings, a new filing reveals. An FBI agent and New York Police Department officer were the two witnesses in the grand jury trial, Attorney General Pam Bondi noted in response to request for more information on why the U.S. government wants to keep it unsealed.

At the direction of President Donald Trump , the Justice Department is seeking to make public grand jury testimony from the cases in Florida and New York against the convicted [sexual] offenders. The Southern District of Florida declined Trump's request, while the Southern District of New York asked for more information for why grand jury testimony should be unsealed – including whether the witnesses are still alive.

Both witnesses, interim U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton wrote in Tuesday night's filing, are still alive and working for their respective agencies. This begs the question of whether any bombshell information in the child [sexual] trafficking case would come to light if the courts did decide to unseal the highly-protected grand jury testimony. Bondi's push for more information comes as many Americans are furious over the DOJ's handling of the Epstein files review.

In the beginning of July, the DOJ and FBI released a memo on its findings in the case, which concluded that Epstein did die by [killing himself], that there is no so-called 'client list' of co-conspirators and that no one else would be charged in the crimes. British socialite and longtime Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence and is the only person serving time for the crimes.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche went to Florida last week to sit for two days of interviews with Maxwell as the MAGA base steams with suspicions about a cover-up. Clayton details how there was one FBI agent witness in the Epstein grand jury proceedings and he also testified in the Maxwell grand jury trial.

The NYPD officer, who worked on the FBI's Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, was only part of the proceedings for Maxwell's case in SDNY. 'Both witnesses are still alive; the FBI agent continues to be an agent with the FBI, and the Detective continues to be a Detective with the NYPD as well as a Task Force Officer,' Clayton wrote.

Bondi and Blanche also signed the latest filing. The SDNY asked the U.S. government how much time has passed since the original cases, considering this often plays a factor in deciding relevance, statute of limitations and whether it makes sense to unseal more documents.

'The passage of time has not dulled the public's interest in these cases,' Clayton wrote in the court document. The request for more information required that the government reply by July 29 – a deadline that was narrowly hit when the filing dropped on Tuesday night. Nothing the administration has done since taking office in January has helped satiate the public's desire for a full public account of what the FBI learned during its investigations of Epstein's child [sexual] trafficking ring.

Even if the grand jury testimony is made public, it only represents a fraction of the evidence the FBI gathered while building their cases against Epstein and Maxwell. Clayton said in Tuesday's filing that all but one of Epstein's victims mentioned in the transcripts were notified of the DOJ's attempt to have the documents released.

Those victims have a Tuesday deadline to object to redacted versions of the transcript's release, which would reveal their names and any other identifying information. Even if they agree, Bondi faces an uphill battle when it comes to convincing the courts to make them public.