On Wednesday National Zero reported that New York federal Judge Paul Engelmayer had complied with his now-statutory duty and ordered the release of the grand jury materials in the case against now-bubble-wrapped Club Fed inmate Ghislaine Maxwell – while copiously citing his previous objection to doing so from August, back when it’d been a matter of his discretion. The jurist at the time mulled granting the request if only to show that it was a bullshit effort by the Trump Regime to make it look like they were being “transparent” by seeking to unseal what the vast majority of had already been made public during Maxwell’s trial but decided to stick with SOP on grand jury secrecy.

Engelmayer’s colleague Judge Richard Berman – who presided over the 2019 case against convicted felon President Trump’s ex-bestie Jeffrey Epstein and would have overseen the trial had Jeff not been found dead in his federal lockup cell under questionable circumstances that year – had also last summer issued a similar ruling denying the Trump regime’s motion to unseal the grand jury materials in that case. Berman wrote the materials were a “mere hearsay snippet” of Dirty Jeff’s conduct, of “limited value” at best and, of course, a potential “diversion” from the DOJ’s files. Yet on Wednesday Berman followed Engelmayer – and the law – and ordered that material released.

Still, simply because Epstein never actually went on trial, there will still be more previously non-public information in this material and even if there aren’t any smoking guns it will be useful to journalists and OSINTers working on filling in gaps in the current understanding of Jeff’s exploits.

The largest well of files remains with the DOJ/FBI and the question isn’t whether there’s going to be fuckery but how much and whether it can be overcome through collective grit and determination.