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SunSeeker

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20. Because there was an ongoing criminal prosecution, then appeal, of Ghislaine Maxwell.

Reply to samsingh (Reply #14)

Fri Feb 13, 2026, 02:29 PM

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It was not until October 6, 2025, when the Supreme Court declined to hear Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal, that her 2022 conviction became final. So, it was not until the Trump administration that the file was no longer evidence in a pending criminal case.

As former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance told NPR: “DOJ historically has had a deal with Congress where Congress defers to DOJ when it has an ongoing criminal investigation and waits until the criminal investigation is concluded to engage in its oversight function. https://www.newsweek.com/biden-doj-release-jeffrey-epstein-files-11081415

And, unlike the Trump administration, the Biden administration did not interefere with or tell DOJ what to do, as Kamala Harris noted.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5654686-kamala-harris-doj-independence-epstein-files/

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