US EditionSupreme Court rejects Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction
- The Supreme Court declined Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal against her 2021 conviction related to her involvement in facilitating the abuse of underage girls by Jeffrey Epstein.
- Maxwell argued that Epstein's 2007 Florida plea deal, which shielded him and co-conspirators from prosecution, should have extended to her New York charges.
- The Justice Department stated the plea deal applied only in Florida and that no evidence shows it was meant to protect Maxwell in New York.
- Maxwell's attorneys accused the government of seeking a "blank check" to rewrite its promises and said it distracts by reciting irrelevant accounts of Epstein's misconduct.
- Maxwell remains sentenced to 20 years, was transferred to a lower-security Texas prison, and her conviction and sentence remain in place following the Supreme Court decision.
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted as an accomplice to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The highest court failed to provide explanations of his decision on Maxwell’s appeal for the annulment of the proceedings that ended in 2022 with his 20-year prison sentence. Epstein was found dead in his cell in 2019 when he was awaiting his trial for alleged trafficking in minors for sexual exploitati…
Supreme Court Declines Ghislaine Maxwell's Appeal
The Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of Ghislaine Maxwell, who tried to have her conviction overturned, accusing the government of violating a non-prosecution agreement made with Jeffrey Epstein before his death. Maxwell was found guilty in December 2021 of conspiring with Epstein to recruit, groom, and abuse minors. In her appeal, her attorneys also argued that one of the jurors failed to disclose his own history of sexual abuse whi…
Supreme Court declines to hear appeal from Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review an appeal filed by Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, who was convicted of helping the late financier traffic underage girls. Maxwell, who was sentenced in 2022 to 20 years in prison for her role in recruiting and grooming underage girls for Epstein’s abuse, filed the appeal in April. She has completed five years of her 20-year sentence thus far. The high court rejec…
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