Ex-prosecutor on releasing Epstein grand jury transcripts: 'It's not going to be much'

A former federal prosecutor based in Manhattan says she doesn't expect grand jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein case to produce much new information involving the disgraced financier and sex offender.

“It’s not going to be much,” Sarah Krissoff, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, told The Associated Press in a weekend interview. She estimated the testimony could be just 60 pages “because the Southern District of New York’s practice is to put as little information as possible into the grand jury.”

“They basically spoon feed the indictment to the grand jury. That’s what we’re going to see,” she said. “I just think it’s not going to be that interesting. ... I don’t think it’s going to be anything new.”

The Justice Department asked a federal court on Friday to unseal grand jury testimony from the prosecutions of Epstein and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving out a 20-year prison sentence after she was convicted of helping Epstein carry out a sex trafficking scheme.

Epstein was awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges when he died by suicide in his jail cell in 2019. He had pleaded guilty to prostitution charges in state court a decade earlier as part of a plea deal broadly criticized as too lenient.

The Trump administration has faced growing pressure to release information related to the Epstein case. President Trump has publicly expressed his frustration at the attention the case has received in recent days from the media, Democrats and many in his own base.

The president on Thursday directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to release “pertinent grand jury testimony," in an attempt to calm criticism about the administration’s handling of the case. However, the testimony is only a fraction of the available material many allies want released.