December 5, 2025
Those secret Epstein grand jury transcripts? Yeah… we *are* going to get to see them after all. That’s according to this surprising order that just came down from a federal court judge in the southern district of florida.
So let me just explain what’s going on and hang with me because it’s complicated. First of all – it is very uncommon for grand jury transcripts to be released publicly. Those are usually kept secret because of the court’s rules and protective orders. But – according to this federal judge’s order today – because of the bill President Trump just signed into law last month that requires the federal government to release the entire Epstein file to the public – this judge said – that new law overrides the court’s protective order and rules. So – the grand jury transcripts can be released – minus of course the names of the victims.
So – what are we going to see? Well – first you have to understand that Jeffrey Epstein the convicted sex trafficker was investigated twice for these types of sex crimes. Once in palm beach back in 2005, 2006 and once in New York in 2019. The grand jury transcripts that will be released as a result of the judge’s order today — are from that palm beach case. Of course if the federal prosecutors would have actually taken Epstein to trial – they could have put him behind bars for decades – but Epstein was allowed to continue to traffic young girls for another decade.
So let’s talk about the Palm Beach case because it was the original one – and there was a lot of weird stuff that happened – or didn’t happen back then. The thing is – in 2006 a Palm Beach county grand jury indicted Jeffrey Epstein on a state charge of solicitation of prostitution – which is a felony. But because the local police in palm beach said they had young girls coming out of the woodwork talking about how Epstein abused them and their investigation showed Epstein’s crimes were much much bigger than a measly state felony which is all the state attorney was willing to bring. The palm beach police who were not happy with the way the state attorney handled the case — turned it over to the FBI and the feds got involved. Well just a year later — by May of 2007 after a thorough investigation and the discovery of even more victims – an assistant US attorney in florida drafted a 60 count federal indictment against Jeffrey Epstein for several sex crimes that -if convicted- could have landed him in prison more than 15 years. Federal prosecutors in the southern district of Florida used grand juries during their investigation but those grand juries never indicted Epstein. Why? Well because in July of 2007 so just a few months after that draft indictment was written by that assistant US attorney – her boss – Alex Acosta – who would later become President Trump’s Labor Secretary during his first term – decided to throw out the 60 count indictment and instead, cut a sweetheart deal with Epstein.
So – when we get these grand jury transcripts it will be very very interesting to see what exactly federal prosecutors presented to the grand jury. And more importantly what did Alex Acosta know his investigators had as credible evidence against Epstein before he decided to throw everything out and cut that deal?
But this isn’t the end. The US government has also asked two different federal judges in New York – as a result of that same Epstein Transparency Act – to release those grand jury transcripts too. Before that law was passed the New York judges said no – but now that it has and now that this federal judge in Florida said it’s ok to release them, will the New York judges feel the same about their grand jury testimony? We’re expecting rulings from them by next week. And then we are expecting to see the full Epstein files by December 19th.
Judge’s order here.
Timeline of Epstein Palm Beach case here.
