The Justice Department asked a judge for permission Wednesday to publicly release financial records, travel documents, and notes of victim interviews obtained during the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell to comply with a new law. In a letter to federal Judge Paul Engelmayer, who is overseeing the Maxwell case in the Southern District of New York, prosecutors asked the court to lift a protective order that previously prevented the public dissemination of evidence turned over to Maxwell ahead of her trial.