A judge on Monday denied the Trump administration's motion to unseal grand jury testimony from the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Transcripts of grand jury testimony that led to sex trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell shouldn't be released, a judge ruled Monday in a stinging decision suggesting the Trump administration's real motive for wanting them unsealed was to fool the public with an ''illusion'' of transparency.