Benjamin Weiser

Nikhil Gupta was accused of plotting to murder an American citizen. Prosecutors have argued it mirrors similar efforts against Sikhs, including the killing of one in Canada.

By law, the government was required to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein in December. Now the attorney general said they will be out “in the near term.”

A federal judge said he did not have the authority to supervise the Justice Department’s release of the documents.

The transcripts and photos were part of Department of Justice files arising from investigations into the disgraced financier and his former girlfriend.

Ms. Maxwell, who conspired with Jeffrey Epstein in a sex-trafficking scheme, argued that she had been denied a fair trial.

The ruling could lead to the most expansive look yet at the federal investigation of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The ruling cited a law signed last month by President Trump requiring the Justice Department to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell.

The former agent, Paul Campo, laundered money for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Mexico, according to an indictment unsealed on Friday.

In a court filing, a lawyer for the onetime companion of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein said she would seek to be released from her minimum-security federal lockup.

Jay Clayton, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, had called his office’s drug prosecution of an ex-president of Honduras a success. President Trump decided to free him this week.