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    “A member of the public, appreciating that the Maxwell grand jury materials do not contribute anything to public knowledge, might conclude that the Government’s motion for their unsealing was aimed not at ‘transparency’ but at diversion - aimed not at full disclosure but at the illusion of such,” the judge wrote. Another federal judge in Manhattan, Richard Berman, is weighing the Justice Department’s bid to unseal the grand jury records from Epstein’s case. Berman has not yet ruled.