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Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers filed a motion Thursday to keep a July 2016 deposition she gave about her sordid sex life under wraps.She doubled down on the same arguments she made in her unsuccessful bid to keep an earlier deposition secret.Her attorneys argued that releasing the deposition — given in 2016 as part of Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s now-settled civil suit — would jeopardize her right to a fair criminal trial, embarrass her and violate a protective order that promised to keep the proceeding private. ...After US District Judge Loretta Preska ordered the release of the earlier April 2016 deposition and other sensitive documents, Maxwell’s lawyers took their case to the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals. The higher court sided with Preska.The 465-page deposition was released in October and detailed the seamy relationship between Maxwell, 58, and late pedophile Epstein. ...
FBI was set to arrest Jeffrey Epstein while he judged a beauty pageant in 2007By Eileen AJ ConnellyNovember 14, 2020 | 6:51pm The FBI was ready to arrest Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 while he was judging a beauty pageant in the U.S. Virgin Islands, but missed out on the chance to nab the serial sexual predator because the federal prosecutor on the case wanted to “take his time.â€A few months later, that prosecutor secretly offered Epstein a now-infamous sweetheart deal that kept him out of federal prison and allowed him to serve just 13 months in a jail, with weekend releases.The details of the decision were described in a report released by the Department of Justice which found the prosecutor, then-U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, exercised “poor judgement†but did not engage in professional misconduct. ...
Epstein’s attorney dated the prosecutor in trial where he got sweetheart deal: reportBy Paula FroelichNovember 14, 2020 | 6:02pmIt was a sweetheart deal that has baffled the world — how, in 2008, Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser felony prostitution charge, register as a sex offender and serve just 13 months in a county jail where he could come and go during the day, despite several underage victims testifying he raped them.It’s now been revealed that one of Epstein’s defense attorneys previously dated one of the top prosecutors on the deal.Lilly Ann Sanchez “was a member of Epstein’s defense team in 2008 when he was facing a potential federal indictment and life imprisonment for sexually abusing dozens of girls between 1999 and 2007,†according to the Daily Mail.Sanchez had also dated Matthew Menchel, one of the prosecutors who worked on the plea deal.The romance came to light after the Justice Department Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) issued a report this week slamming the Florida prosecutors for “poor judgement†in the pedo-perv’s deal. ...
I'm surprised she hasn't mysteriously disappeared by now.
