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Case 1:19-cr-00490-RMB Document63_ Filed 07/22/25 Page 1of4 i 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 ‘ 1 1 Lf i 1 i i t fs t i F E 1 r ! ! ! ' ! i I i i I I 1 ! ! ! 1 ! i ! I 1 ! ! Li i i Li i 1 ES i 1 i >< i H hase Ne & a ae, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Government, 19 CR. 490 (RMB) -against- ORDER JEFFREY EPSTEIN, Defendant. The Court has received a four page “United States? Motion to Unseal Grand Jury Transcripts” filed with the 8.D.N.Y. Clerk’s Office on Friday evening, July 18, 2025. See ECF No. 61 (Gov’t Motion), The Gov’t Motion requests that the Court “unseal the underlying grand jury transcripts in United States v. Epstein, subject to appropriate redactions of victim-related and other personal identifying information.” Jd. at 1-2. The Court intends to resolve this motion expeditiously. However, the Court cannot rule on the motion without additional submissions from the Government. Specifically: Memorandum of law: Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e) codified the practice, ““older than our Nation itself,’ that proceedings before a grand jury shall generally remain secret,” Jn re Petition of Craig, 131 F.3d 99, 102 (2d Cir. 1997) (quoting Jn re Biaggi, 478 F.2d 489, 491 (2d Cir. 1973) (Friendly, C.J.)); see also Douglas Oil Co. of Cal. v. Petrol Stops Nw., 44} U.S. 211, 218 (1979). Rule 6(c}(3) lists exceptions to the rule of secrecy but these are not invoked by the Government’s Motion. The Second Circuit - but not many other circuits - has recognized that there are certain “special circumstances” in which release of grand jury records may be appropriate, based upon a court’s supervisory authority over grand juries it empanels.! See ' The Seventh Circuit agrees that a district court may order the release of grand jury materials upon a showing of special circumstances. See Carlson v. United States, 837 F.3d 753, 766-67 (7th Cir. I DOJ-OGR-00000737