A federal judge in New York has ruled transcripts of secret grand jury testimony in the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell won’t be released.

A federal judge has reportedly refused the Justice Department's request to unseal the grand jury materials used to charge Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Federal prosecutors had asked to unseal the documents, in an effort to calm a whirlpool of suspicions about what the government knows about Jeffrey Epstein, a well-connected financier who died behind bars while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.