The federal judge who holds the key to secret records concerning the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein refused Tuesday afternoon to approve a monthlong delay in the case.
Attorneys for people named in the secret batch of files sought the reprieve to extend how long they have to raise objections about public scrutiny after first receiving notice about their involvement.
“At this point, 14 days is certainly adequate,” U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska told an attorney for one of those anonymous men during a phone conference, referring to the length of time needed to respond to a notification.
Like many U.S. court proceedings during the coronavirus crisis, today’s hearing took place in the form of a telephone conference. As proceedings began, the former chief judge for the Southern District of New York quipped that many have been boosting their Vitamin-C reserves with “quarantinis.”
The Second Circuit put Preska at the case’s helm last July, long before the novel virus Covid-19 first erupted in China spawning a global pandemic and national emergency.
Her task is to review and potentially unseal files from a lawsuit that Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre brought against the now-deceased financier’s ex-associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
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