Thread by @realjusthuman

🧵Update on DOJ's efforts to unseal Epstein and Maxwell grand jury material:

- DOJ has moved to unseal the Maxwell and Epstein grand jury exhibits in addition to the transcripts.

- Two more attorneys have withdrawn from Ghislaine's team. It seems David Oscar Markus, who is also counsel to Hillary Clinton, will be Ghislaine's primary counsel going forward.

- Epstein's Estate has responded and taken no position on the unsealing.

- More letters from victims have been docketed.

I'll parse the filings in the thread below.

Here's the previous thread of updates. It's rather lengthy but full of information that dedicated followers of these cases will find valuable.

I'll parse the updates in the order that I listed them in the original post. Here is DOJ's motion to unseal the grand jury exhibits. This was filed in both Epstein and Maxwell.

Unsealing the exhibits means DOJ will need to notify anyone whose name appears in them. They ask the courts to give them until next Thursday to provide an update on that process.

Submitted under seal and ex parte alongside this motion is documentation clarifying which exhibits have already been made public.

There have been a number of federal and civil cases connected to Epstein and Maxwell, some by anonymous victims, and DOJ "cannot attribute with certainty to whom the statements or allegations in those anonymized complaints can be attributed." Identifying what is already public is a challenge and DOJ says they may make further submissions if they identify

And in Epstein specifically, they have now submitted under seal and ex parte a version of the grand jury transcripts that identifies which parts are already made public.

Last week Everdell and Cohen withdrew as co-counsel to Ghislaine Maxwell.

This week, Pagliuca and Menninger withdrew.

If you have been reading my threads on these cases, you already know that Maxwell and Hillary Clinton share David Markus as an attorney.

Maxwell for her criminal appeal, and Clinton for her civil RICO case that Trump brought against her and others.

In Epstein, the Epstein Estate filed a simple one-page letter taking NO POSITION on the unsealing matter.

Several more victim letters have been docketed, including this one from Annie Farmer, who testified at Maxwell's trial.

She supports the unsealing of the grand jury transcripts.

"This transparency and accountability is a form of justice."

"Given the magnitude and abhorrence of Epstein and Maxwell’s crimes, unsealing the grand jury transcripts is not just appropriate, it is necessary to understand the full scope of the abuse and those who enabled it."

"This case presents a rare and compelling circumstance where the victims seek transparency, not secrecy."

"The victims represented by the undersigned counsel who are still alive do not just passively support unsealing, but affirmatively support unsealing"

This is a powerful letter.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Another letter is from attorney Bradley Edwards who is counsel for several of Epstein and Maxwell's victims.

He is writing on their behalf and to "urge the Court to administer any disclosure in a manner that fully honors the victims’ rights under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act" and other law and precedent.

Their concern is, of course, for the victims, and the notification process has not given them much confidence.

They believe that "additional individuals-whom [they] also represent-were liekly referenced in" the grand jury materials that are to be unsealed.

"Many Epstein victims were minors at the time of the abuse; even for those now adults, § 3771(a)(8) and the Court’s protective authority warrant safeguards that functionally align with § 3509(d) principles."

They are not opposed to the unsealing but are concerned and want to make sure that no more harm befalls the victims and that applicable law and precedent are followed.

They ask the court for the following relief. Absent this relief, they ask the court to "deny disclosure without prejudice."

Here is the letter
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

And that's today's update, at least for now. I'll refresh the dockets later.