By LARRY NEUMEISTER The Justice Department says in support of its request to unseal grand jury transcripts of proceedings that led to the sex trafficking indictments of New York financier and sex

Donald Trump's administration urged two judges on Tuesday night to release testimony heard by the grand juries that indicted the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell on sex trafficking charges as the president seeks to calm an uproar over his administration's handling of the matter.

The Department of Justice revealed overnight that there were only ever two witnesses who testified during the grand jury proceedings before the two grand juries investigating Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in New York,

As Ghislaine Maxwell awaits a presidential pardon in a Florida prison, the former British socialite shows she always gets what she wants.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence and is housed at a low-security federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida. She was sentenced three years ago after being convicted of helping Epstein, a wealthy, well-connected financier, sexually abuse underage girls.