The DOJ was responding to judges' requests for further information about its push to unseal grand jury transcripts related to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

As part of their filing, prosecutors noted the only witness to testify to the grand jury in Epstein’s case was an FBI agent, while Maxwell’s grand jury included testimony from the same FBI agent and a NYPD detective who had been a Task Force Officer with the FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.

A Florida federal judge on Wednesday declined to release additional grand jury documents from the criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, marking the first roadblock in the Justice Department’s efforts to quell the public backlash over the handling of the case.