During Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) discussed a new law recently passed by the Florida Legislature that would allow the release of Jeffrey Epstein grand jury files. did.
The law will go into effect on July 1st.
“Jeffrey Epstein’s mysterious death nearly five years ago clearly did nothing to resolve the numerous questions surrounding the many misdeeds and special plea deals that took place before he took office as Florida’s governor. ” said FNC host Sean. Hannity said. “Now that you’re supporting the bill and signing the bill that will allow for the release of grand jury testimony that is currently secret from the first case in the state, we can get a little closer to some answers. You might be able to do it. Oh, the details tell me that I’ve read about this and, wow, this had to be the plea deal of all plea deals.”
“Something unbelievable happened,” DeSantis responded. “And, you know, this involved federal jurisdiction at the time, and the federal government was working with Palm Beach County prosecutors to engineer this plea deal, and this, you know, 15 It happened 20 years ago or 20 years ago. When I became governor, we started a criminal investigation, but what actually happened? How did he close this deal with this sweetheart? But what we encountered was a grand jury secrecy law, and that applies in Florida as well. If you testify in front of a grand jury, it’s confidential and you have to keep it secret, so There were people who tried to petition for it to be made public, with some exceptions, but all those trials failed.
“So the Florida Legislature passed a bill that would allow the release of all these grand jury files,” he continued. “So, I signed it into law this week. This law is scheduled to go into effect on July 1st. The public will finally be able to get answers, but some are now… Some were women, some were in their 30s, but some said they were teenagers. I think many of them were then, but this stayed with them for decades, and they I didn’t receive any justice.”
“So we’re going to get more facts. How do you say, Sean, there’s so many people involved and the other one is Ghislaine Maxwell who’s in federal prison,” DeSantis said. added. “Since Epstein’s death, no one has been held accountable. I think we all know that’s not right and that no one else could have been involved in this criminal activity.”
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