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

The revelation was made in a late-night filing that urged a Manhattan judge to unseal the transcripts and release the documents to the public, given the “abundant public interest.”

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.