The federal judge now overseeing the Justice Department's request to unseal grand jury records from Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal case said in a new order Tuesday that he plans to rule "expeditiously" on the matter but requires more information before he can do so.

The Department of Justice wants to interview Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of helping the financier sexually abuse underage girls and is now serving a lengthy prison sentence,

T he 2019 suicide of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein launched numerous conspiracy theories, chief among them that the financier had actually been murdered to cover up his connections to powerful people in the highest echelons of American society — and that the United States government has been hiding information about what truly happened.