One year ago, thanks to legislation passed in FL, over 150 pages of grand jury transcripts and videos of witness interviews regarding the 2008 state investigation of Jeffrey Epstein were made public.
In June of that same year, Epstein pleaded guilty to the state charges: one count of soliciting prostitution and one count of soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18. He is sentenced to register as a sex offender, pay restitution, and serve 18 months in jail... but was allowed to go to his office during the day.
Around the same time that the state grand jury indicted Epstein, a federal grand jury in Florida had been impaneled and heard testimony.
There was a proposed indictment against him for conspiracy and sex trafficking.
That indictment was dropped when the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida inked a secret non-prosecution agreement with Epstein that resolved those possible charges against him and gave immunity to four female co-conspirators.
Maxwell was NOT one of those four female co-conspirators, but she is currently attempting to get her conviction overturned at SCOTUS by arguing that the NPA does in fact apply to her.
Another filing from Halligan seeking to clarify the grand jury proceedings that have been the focus of scrutiny over recent days and really, since day one in this case—as the just-filed Transcript of Return of Grand Jury Indictment Proceedings shows.
For reference, here are the "no true bill" 3-count and the "true bill" 2-count indictments.
As you can see, Count Two and, uh, the other Count Two of the 3-count are IDENTICAL to Count One and Count Two of the 2-count.
Both were filed, as both were presented in open court.
The notice accompanying the transcript says
"The official transcript of the September 25, 2025, proceedings before Magistrate Judge Vaala conclusively refutes [the] claim [that there was an issue with the grand jury voting process] and establishes that the grand jury voted on—and true-billed—the two-count indictment."
NEW filing by US Attorney Halligan clarifies that "the foreperson of the grand jury 'reported that 12 or more grand jurors did not concur in finding an indictment' as to proposed 'Count 1 only,'" but did concur on Counts 2 & 3.
The 3-count indictment was edited into a 2-count indictment, numbers adjusted, and the foreperson signed the new one.
"Fed. R. Crim. P. [] Rule 6 simply does not require a successive-voting procedure where there is a mixed return from the grand jury on a multi-count indictment."
It appears, based on filings and testimony from Halligan and her office, that the two-count indictment against James Comey was not properly presented and returned by the full grand jury.