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#EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct

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People (4)

  • Paul Engelmayer Manhattan federal judge and former Thurgood Marshall clerk and Major Crimes chief who inherited Ghislaine Maxwell's closed criminal case and ruled on its grand jury record under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
  • Richard M. Berman Manhattan federal judge, a former Javits aide and Warner Cable general counsel, who ordered Jeffrey Epstein detained in 2019, let victims speak before dismissing his indictment, and later unsealed its grand jury record.
  • Ro Khanna Democratic congressman for California's Silicon Valley district since 2017, lead author of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, who read six redacted names from the files on the House floor in 2026.
  • Thomas Massie MIT-trained engineer and Republican congressman from Kentucky who forced the 2025 House vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act and lost his 2026 primary to a Trump-endorsed challenger after record super PAC spending.

Events (2)

  • Giuffre v. Maxwell Virginia Giuffre's 2015 defamation suit against Ghislaine Maxwell in the Southern District of New York, settled in 2017, whose sealed discovery record was litigated for a decade and reached by a 2019 grand jury subpoena.
  • United States v. Maxwell Federal sex-trafficking prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell in the Southern District of New York, ending in a 2021 conviction and 20-year sentence, whose grand jury record was unsealed under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Concepts (2)

  • Epstein Files Body of Justice Department and FBI records on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, released in stages from February 2025 and, under a 2025 statute, as a library of nearly 3.5 million pages.
  • Epstein Files Transparency Act Statute of November 19, 2025, forced to a House vote by discharge petition, requiring the Attorney General to publish within 30 days the Justice Department's unclassified records on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.