Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he will sign a state bill to release records of Jeffrey Epstein’s testimony. Earlier this month, the Florida House and Senate unanimously approved HB 117, sponsored by Rep. Peggy Gossett-Seidman, R-Highland Beach, and Sen. Tina Polsky, D-Boca Raton. It would expand an exception to a prohibition on the disclosure of testimony or evidence received by a grand jury.
Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on federal sex-trafficking offenses involving minor girls, and he was found dead in a New York jail in what was deemed a suicide.
In 2019, the Palm Beach Post filed a lawsuit in an effort to obtain a court order to unseal the 2006 grand jury records.
