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Bill Clinton 'enjoyed secret LA dinner with Ghislaine Maxwell and her rumored husband Scott Borgerson in 2014' - three years AFTER she was linked to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes
* Clinton reportedly ate with close friends, including Epstein's alleged madam
* Maxwell, who attended Chelsea Clinton's wedding in 2010, was linked to
    Epstein's crimes in 2011 by Virginia Roberts, one of Epstein's prime accusers
* Democrat donor Steve Bing, who killed himself in June, was also at the meal
* Maxwell's attendance is said to have been hotly contested by Clinton's team
* The former president is said to have been 'relieved' the press did not find out
By LAUREN FRUEN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 22:10 BST, 22 September 2020 | UPDATED: 05:47 BST, 23 September 2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8761381/Bill-Clinton-enjoyed-secret-LA-dinner-Ghislaine-Maxwell-2014.html

  "Bill Clinton is said to have enjoyed a secret dinner with Ghislaine
   Maxwell in 2014 - years after she was first linked to Jeffrey Epstein's
   sex crimes.
   
   The former US president, 74, ate with close friends, including
   Epstein's alleged madam and former girlfriend Maxwell, at vegan
   restaurant Crossroads Kitchen in Los Angeles in February of that year,
   The Daily Beast reports.
   
   Maxwell, 58, who attended Chelsea Clinton's wedding in 2010, had been
   linked to Epstein's crimes in 2011 by Virginia Roberts, one of
   Epstein's prime accusers.
   
   Her attendance at the 2014 meal is said to have been hotly contested by
   Clinton's team. The former president is said to have been 'relieved'
   the press did not find out about the dinner. DailyMail.com has
   contacted Clinton's team for comment.
   
   Democrat donor Steve Bing, who killed himself earlier this year, is
   also thought to have dined with Clinton that night. Maxwell's rumored
   husband and tech CEO Scott Borgerson was also said to be on the
   guestlist.
   
   TMZ reported at the time that producer Jerry Bruckheimer and actors
   Bruce Willis and Sean Penn were also at that the restaurant, although
   are not thought to have been part of Clinton's entourage. Video shows
   Clinton arriving via a back door.
   
   Maxwell remains behind bars as she awaits trial on charges she
   recruited girls for disgraced financier Epstein to sexually abuse more
   than two decades ago. He killed himself in prison in August last year,
   several weeks after being charged with sex trafficking.
   
   Clinton traveled numerous times on the dead pedophile's private Jet. In
   May he was forced to deny claims he had an affair with Maxwell in new
   book A Convenient Death: The Mysterious Demise of Jeffrey Epstein. 
   
   
   Bill Clinton, left, is said to have enjoyed a secret dinner with Ghislaine Maxwell, right, in 2014 - years after she was first linked to Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes
   
   
   The former US president, 74, ate with close friends, including Epstein's alleged madam, at vegan restaurant Crossroads Kitchen in Los Angeles, The Daily Beast reports
   
   [video : TMZ Bill Clinton and Sean Penn ]
   
   Epstein was first sentenced to 18 months in prison and registered as a
   sex offender in 2008.   
   
   Doug Band, who left his role with Clinton in 2012, is said to have
   banned Maxwell from the president's network in 2011 but Clinton's
   deputy chief of staff Jon Davidson, who helped organize the dinner, is
   reported to have known she would be there.
   
   Clinton and Maxwell were once pictured together on the billionaire
   pedophile's plane back in the early 2000s.
   
   A source told The Daily Beast: 'This is an intimate dinner with Clinton
   in LA. Think of all the people he knows in L.A., and Ghislaine gets to
   attend.'
     
   
   Clinton and Maxwell are pictured aboard Jeffrey Epstein's private jet 2002. The pair are seen at a small airport in Portugal during a fuel stop for the plane bound to Africa from New York
   
   
   Maxwell, who attended Chelsea Clinton's wedding in 2010, was linked to Epstein's crimes in 2011 by Virginia Roberts, one of Epstein's prime accusers; her attendance at the 2014 meal is said to have been contested by Clinton's team
   
   
   Democrat donor Steve Bing, who killed himself in June, was also at the meal. Clinton and Bing are pictured in 2009
   
   Clinton had been in LA for the Unite4:Humanity gala, where he was the
   keynote speaker; Maxwell stayed in the city and was pictured three days
   later with Elon Musk at the Vanity Fair Oscar's party.
   
   Clinton's spokesman, Angel Ureña, did not comment but referred to this
   2019 statement: 'President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible
   crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or
   those with which he has been recently charged in New York.
   
   'In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on
   Jeffrey Epstein's airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to
   Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton
   Foundation. Staff, supporters of the Foundation, and his Secret Service
   detail traveled on every leg of every trip.
   
   'He had one meeting with Epstein in his Harlem office in 2002, and
   around the same time made one brief visit to Epstein's New York
   apartment with a staff member and his security detail. He's not spoken
   to Epstein in well over a decade, and has never been to Little St.
   James Island, Epstein's ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in
   Florida.' 
     
   
   Ghislaine Maxwell appears via video link during her arraignment hearing where she was denied bail for her role aiding Jeffrey Epstein to recruit and eventually abuse of minor girls, in Manhattan Federal Court in July
   
   In photos obtained by the DailyMail.com earlier this year Clinton
   grinned with pleasure as he enjoyed an intimate neck massage with
   Epstein victim Chauntae Davies, then 22.
   
   Clinton, then 56, had complained of having a stiff neck after falling
   asleep on Epstein's infamous private jet, nicknamed The Lolita Express,
   while on a humanitarian trip with the pedophile to Africa in September
   of 2002.
   
   Maxwell is said to have repeatedly encouraged Davies to give Clinton a
   massage while the group was refueling at a small airport in Portugal
   after flying in from New York.
   
   
   Epstein was first sentenced to 18 months in prison and registered as a sex offender in 2008. He was arrested again in July last year before being found dead in his prison cell a month later
   
   After Maxwell's insistence, Clinton asked the twenty-something: 'Would
   you mind giving it a crack?'
   
   Davies, who has claimed she was raped by Epstein several times after
   being recruited by Maxwell, said Clinton was a 'complete gentleman' on
   the trip.
   
   In papers released by a judge Virginia Roberts, one of Epstein's prime
   accusers, also says Clinton 'strolled into the darkness' with two girls
   while staying on Epstein's private Caribbean island. Clinton denies
   ever being there and has also always maintained he knew nothing of
   Epstein's abuse of young girls.   
   
   In an excerpt of A Convenient Death: The Mysterious Demise of Jeffrey
   Epstein, obtained by the New York Post, sources said Clinton would have
   sex with Maxwell during overseas trips on Epstein's Lolita Express
   plane and he would visit her at her Manhattan townhouse.
   
   The former president has denied having the affair with Maxwell.
   Clinton's spokesman said: 'It's a total lie today, it's a total lie
   tomorrow, and it'll be a total lie years from now.'   
   
   Sources quoted in the book claim that Clinton was tied to Epstein only
   because of his alleged affair with Maxwell.   
   
   The book claims Clinton visited Maxwell at her Upper East Side
   townhouse on multiple occasions.
   
   
   Maxwell, 58, remains behind bars as she awaits trial on charges she recruited girls for disgraced financier Epstein to sexually abuse more than two decades ago
   
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   ]
   
   They were also side-by-side at various events in New York City
   together, including ones held by his own Clinton Foundation.
   
   Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to charges that she procured the girls,
   including one as young as 14, for Epstein to abuse in London and the
   United States in the 1990s. If convicted, she could face up to 35 years
   in prison.   
   
   Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to state charges in Florida of procuring
   a person under 18 for prostitution and felony solicitation of
   prostitution. He served 13 months, most of it on work release program
   at a county jail.
   
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   www.thedailybeas...
   Bill Clinton -- I'm at a Crossroads with Sean Penn
   
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Ghislaine Maxwell hires 'super lawyer' who represented bin Laden's henchman
https://www.rt.com/usa/502801-ghislaine-maxwell-bin-laden-attorney/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Suspected child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has hired Bobbi Sternheim to join her legal defense team ahead of her 2021 trial. The so-called "New York Super Lawyer" once represented one of Osama bin Laden's henchmen.

A highly respected and seasoned trial lawyer, Sternheim has had a long career representing defendants in numerous high-profile, federal and international court cases. According to her firm's website, the New York-based lawyer specializes in 'litigating difficult and complex cases.'

She has represented defendants in cases covering the whole spectrum of alleged international crime, including racketeering conspiracies, international terrorism, capital murder, and inter-state transport of pornographic media.

In her most high-profile case, Sternheim represented Bin Laden henchman Khaled al-Fawwaz, who was convicted for his role in the twin bombings of embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, in which 224 people were killed. He was sentenced to life in prison.

She also defended Minh Quang Pham, 33, who was ordered by a leader of al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate to carry out a suicide bombing on London's Heathrow airport. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison by a Manhattan judge in 2016 for providing material support to terrorists after reportedly working as a propagandist for Al Qaeda.

Maxwell, 58, is awaiting trial on grooming and sexual abuse charges related to notorious pedophile and millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, following her arrest in July.

She stands accused of: Conspiracy and seduction of minors to travel to and participate in illegal sexual acts; Seduction of a minor to travel to and participate in illegal sexual acts; Conspiracy to transport minors to participate in criminal sexual acts; Transport of a minor to participate in criminal sexual acts; and two counts of perjury.

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Ghislaine Maxwell urges US appeals court to keep 'sensitive' deposition on relations with Jeffrey Epstein under wraps
https://www.rt.com/usa/503416-ghislaine-maxwell-deposition-epstein/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Ghislaine Maxwell's sworn testimony on her ties with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein must remain sealed to ensure she receives a fair hearing in her own criminal case, her lawyer told a federal appeals court.

Attorney Adam Mueller urged the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Tuesday to reverse an earlier federal court ruling to unseal Maxwell's deposition. The British socialite is charged with enabling Epstein's sexual abuse of underage girls – some allegedly as young as 14 years old – but denies any wrongdoing.

The revelation of "intimate, sensitive, and personal" details in the deposition will violate Maxwell's right against self-incrimination, Mueller argued, adding that those facts may also imperil a fair trial as jurors may show prejudice towards his client.

We're concerned about preserving the status quo. There's going to be a public criminal trial, and this will all be aired in open court... We think that vindicates the public interest as well. 

Maxwell's 418-page testimony was provided during a civil defamation suit brought by Virginia Giuffre, who claims Epstein kept her as a "sex slave" and that the British socialite acted as an accomplice. The deposition was filled with suggestive questions, her lawyer said, arguing that some of Maxwell's answers could be just as "revealing" as an admission of wrongdoing.

Meanwhile Giuffre's lawyer, David Boies, insists the deposition should be unsealed in an "even-handed way" to ensure no context is lost, arguing there is a "substantial presumption" of public access to the material.

Financier Jeffrey Epstein, who had many friends among US elites, died in an apparent suicide at a Manhattan jail last year as he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. His former confidant Maxwell was arrested in July and remains in custody, as the 58-year-old was deemed an unacceptable flight risk.

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Ghislaine Maxwell loses fight to keep her Jeffrey Epstein testimony sealed
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article246561388.html

A federal appeals court dealt Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged madam to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, twin blows late Monday by declining to consolidate her appeals in numerous overlapping cases and striking down her effort to thwart release of a controversial deposition she gave in a now-settled civil lawsuit.

The three-judge Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held more than two hours of oral arguments last week, and issued a succinct Monday afternoon order holding that a lower court judge did not err in ordering the release of a 418-page deposition from April 2016 that could shed new light on the Epstein empire.

"We have reviewed all of the arguments raised by Defendant-Appellant Maxwell on appeal and find them to be without merit," the judges wrote, also turning away a request for consolidation with Maxwell's criminal case in the Southern District of New York. "We DENY the motion to consolidate this appeal with the pending appeal in United States v. Maxwell."

The ruling affirmed a decision over the summer by U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska to release hundreds of documents from a 2015 civil suit involving Maxwell and Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre. The case was settled in 2017 and the Miami Herald sued for the release of the documents following its groundbreaking November 2018 Perversion of Justice series, which spotlighted how Epstein escaped serious punishment despite widespread accusations that he sexually abused underage girls. Epstein was arrested in July 2019 and found dead in a jail cell the following month, determined to be a suicide.

"We are pleased that the Second Circuit's decision will allow the public access to documents, including Ms. Maxwell's deposition, that have been kept secret for far too long," said Christine Walz, a partner in the law firm Holland & Knight who argued on behalf of the Herald.

David Boies, the high-profile attorney representing Giuffre, also welcomed the appellate decision.

"It is an important step towards vindicating the public interest in understanding the scope and scale of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring and the efforts made to conceal it," Boies said in an emailed statement.

Giuffre has said that she was recruited by Maxwell at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in 2000 where Giuffre, who was around 17 at the time, was working as a spa assistant. She has said she was abused by Epstein and that Epstein and Maxwell directed her to have sex with a number of their prominent friends, including Prince Andrew, former Sen. George Mitchell, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, hotel magnate Tom Pritzker and prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz, among others. All of the men have denied the claims and Dershowitz and Giuffre have each sued each other for defamation.

Dershowitz said he welcomed the ruling Monday and hopes that all the material from the suit will be unsealed, which he says will prove that he did not have sex with Giuffre.

"I want every bit of evidence made public because I have nothing to hide," he said.

Preska in July ruled in favor of the Herald, arguing there was an overwhelming presumption of the public's right to access Maxwell's deposition. Maxwell, who was arrested this past July 2 and denied bail, argued that the deposition would jeopardize her ability to get a fair trial. Maxwell was charged with four counts of sexual trafficking of a minor for allegedly recruiting and grooming three girls Epstein sexually abused, allegedly partaking in the abuse of one of the girls, and two counts of perjury for statements she made in the April 2016 deposition. She has appealed another judge's ruling that blocked her from sharing what she said was new material from her federal criminal case to be considered by Preska.

Monday's ruling by the three-judge panel concluded Preska had not erred in her decision, noting that "the District Court correctly held that the deposition materials are judicial documents to which the presumption of public access attaches, and did not abuse its discretion in rejecting Maxwell's meritless arguments that her interests superseded the presumption of access."

At the hearing, the three appeals court judges seemed to be divided on whether to uphold Preska's decision, with U.S. Circuit Judge Rosemary Pooler peppering lawyers for Giuffre and the Herald with questions about the merit of their claims. At one point, Pooler said, "Ms. Maxwell may be a victim herself."

There is no determined timetable for when Preska will release the much-anticipated lengthy transcript of Maxwell's 2016 deposition. The judge has already released many documents from the civil case and is weighing requests by two so-called John Does that their names be redacted from any document subsequently released because of the reputational harm it could cause them.

Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer who has represented several of Epstein's alleged victims, welcomed the ruling Monday.

"This is good news for not just the victims of Epstein, but for victims everywhere," he said. "The Courts should not be a party to the long history of Epstein and his co-conspirator's attempts to avoid public scrutiny for their actions. Everyone who was a part of the Epstein sex ring should be concerned."

"This is good news for not just the victims of Epstein, but for victims everywhere," he said. "The Courts should not be a party to the long history of Epstein and his co-conspirator's attempts to avoid public scrutiny for their actions. Everyone who was a part of the Epstein sex ring should be concerned."

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'Awakened by flashlight every 15 minutes': Lawyer claims Ghislaine Maxwell's jail conditions are worse than those of terrorists
https://www.rt.com/usa/507796-ghislaine-maxwell-jail-conditions-lawyer/

Suspected 'madame' of the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been subjected to exceedingly harsh prison conditions, including invasive searches, 24-hour surveillance, and sleep deprivation, her lawyer said.

The onerous conditions that Maxwell has to endure at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn rival those reserved for the US' most dangerous prisoners held in America's "Supermax" prisons, the British socialite's lawyer, Bobbi Sternheim, said in a letter to US District Judge Alison Nathan.

The months she spent behind bars since her arrest on July 2, 2020, were "de facto solitary confinement," the lawyer said, arguing that such measures were excessive in light of the fact that his client was a "non-violent, exemplary pretrial detainee with no criminal history."

"She is excessively and invasively searched and is monitored 24 hours per day," Sternheim said in the letter cited by the US media. He also said that prison cameras specifically follow her movements when she is allowed to leave her cell and are particularly "focused on Ms. Maxwell and counsel during in-person legal visits."

And despite non-stop in-cell camera surveillance, Ms. Maxwell's sleep is disrupted every 15 minutes when she is awakened by a flashlight to ascertain whether she is breathing.

A notorious pedophile and an American financer, Jeffrey Epstein, died in a New York jail in August 2019 ahead of his trial on federal sex trafficking charges. His death was officially declared a suicide but its circumstances provoked widespread speculation.

After his death, US Attorney General William Barr blasted what he called "serious irregularities" in Epstein's handling by prison staff. Now, the Metropolitan Detention Center authorities are apparently seeking to prevent Maxwell from sharing her alleged accomplice's fate.

According to the lawyer, jail officials admitted they could not "place her in general population for her safety and the security of the institution."

Now, Sternheim has complained that his client is deprived of almost all opportunities provided to the general-population inmates, as well as saying that she is not given enough time to review the "voluminous discovery in this case" or "prepare the defense of her life."

His letter comes just a day after US prosecutors said Maxwell was quarantined after a jail staffer tested positive for Covid-19. They said that Maxwell was also tested and the results of her test was negative but she was put into isolation for two weeks regardless.

Sternheim, however, argued that his client's treatment during the quarantine was inadequate, since staff stopped doing daily checks on her health and did not inform her about the test results. She was not provided with any instructions on what to do if she displayed any symptoms, he added.

The lawyer said that, despite the quarantine requirements saying no one could enter her cell, "an unidentified man entered to take photographs and a guard entered to [conduct a] search."

The inmate's legal team asked the court to order the jail's warden, Heriberto Tellez, to report directly to the judge as well as to Maxwell's lawyers when it comes to her detention conditions. Nathan ordered the Sternheim and the prosecutors to meet and send her a status report on the issue within the next week. She also said that the jail's warden must directly address Maxwell's concerns about her detention conditions.

The British socialite is currently awaiting trial on multiple counts of child trafficking. She is suspected of procuring girls as young as 14 for Epstein to abuse, as well as abusing some of them herself. Maxwell denies the charges.

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Ghislaine Maxwell offers $28.5mn bail package after lawyers allege dire prison conditions
https://www.rt.com/usa/509672-maxwell-bail-prison-conditions/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Ghislaine Maxwell has proposed a bail deal worth nearly $30 million, according to her lawyers, who noted that the socialite – accused of procuring underage girls for sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein – still insists on her innocence.

Maxwell's attorneys filed a bail application with the US District Court in Manhattan on Monday, offering $28.5 million in exchange for her freedom, the majority of which would be secured by assets belonging to Maxwell and her husband.

"Ms. Maxwell wants to stay in New York and have her day in court so that she can clear her name and return to her family," her lawyers said in the filing, adding that while Maxwell has been "ruthlessly vilified" in media reports that have "prejudged her guilt," she nonetheless "vehemently maintains her innocence" and poses no flight risk.

Though she pleaded not guilty to a series of federal sex trafficking charges in July, Maxwell was deemed a flight risk by US District Judge Alison Nathan, who ordered she be held without bail until her trial in summer 2021. The socialite's attorneys have repeatedly railed against that ruling since, but only formally requested a bail package on Monday, asking that she be allowed to await trial from home confinement.

Reiterating arguments previously made before Judge Nathan, an attorney representing several of Epstein's alleged victims, Spencer Kuvin, insisted that Maxwell is likely to evade authorities should the judge grant her bail request.

"Ultimately, I don't think it matters if the bail amount is set at $30 million, $40 million or $100 million. This is a woman that wants to get out of jail and has passports to other countries – countries that don't have extradition to the United States," Kuvin told a Florida ABC affiliate.

She is a flight risk and my hope is the US Government will adamantly oppose this request for bail.

Prosecutors have until Wednesday to respond to the bail request.

Maxwell was arrested in July at her home in New Hampshire over her alleged role in Epstein's trafficking ring and is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where she recently was forced into quarantine after a prison employee tested positive for the coronavirus. Her lawyers have pointed to poor conditions at the jail, arguing that similar "negligence" by authorities led to Epstein's apparent suicide in custody last year. The Federal Bureau of Prisons, however, has defended her living conditions, maintaining that Maxwell remains "in good health" behind bars.

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Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell tries playing the RACE CARD, says grand jury that indicted her was TOO WHITE
https://www.rt.com/usa/513716-ghislaine-maxwell-jury-diversity/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Accused child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has offered a novel reason for dropping the charges in her case: The federal grand jury that indicted her didn't have enough black and Hispanic people.

Lawyers for Maxwell, who is white, argued in court filings on Monday that because she was indicted by a grand jury in White Plains, New York, rather than Manhattan, the jury pool had a lower proportion of blacks and Hispanics than the community where she allegedly committed the crimes in question.

"The fact that Ms. Maxwell herself is neither black nor Hispanic does not deprive her of standing to raise this challenge," Maxwell's lawyers wrote. The Constitution requires that a grand jury be drawn from "a fair cross-section of the community."

The grand jury was empaneled in White Plains because Covid-19 restrictions would have delayed proceedings in Manhattan. Maxwell's lawyers speculated that prosecutors didn't want to wait because they wanted the defendant arrested on the anniversary of financier Jeffrey Epstein's indictment.

"The use of a White Plains jury resulted in the systematic underrepresentation of black and Hispanic persons from the jury-selection process, in violation of Ms. Maxwell's Sixth Amendment right," the lawyers wrote.

Maxwell, 59, was arrested last July 2, about six days before the one-year anniversary of when child sex trafficking charges against Epstein were unsealed. Law enforcement authorities said Epstein killed himself in jail in August 2019. The circumstances of the financier's death have become a source of constant speculation, with those not buying into the official version alleging powerful people may have been incriminated by the testimony in Epstein's case if he were still alive.

Prosecutors alleged that Maxwell, a British socialite who was Epstein's girlfriend, recruited three teenage girls for the pedophile to sexually abuse. She allegedly groomed the girls, one of whom was 14, and sometimes participated in the abuse. She also is accused of lying about her actions in a sworn deposition.

The diversity angle was among a dozen claims that Maxwell's lawyers made in the filing seeking a dismissal of the six charges against her. For instance, they said Maxwell should have immunity under a plea deal that Epstein secured in a 2008 case in Florida. The deal sought to protect Epstein and his associates from other charges related to sex trafficking after he agreed to plead guilty to state charges that required him to be registered as a sex offender. But Maxwell's name was not referenced in the plea agreement.

Maxwell's trial is scheduled to begin in July. She made an unsuccessful bid last month to be released on bail, citing "intolerable" jail conditions.

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Judge rejects third bail request by Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell, despite her offer to renounce UK and French citizenships
https://www.rt.com/usa/518861-maxwell-third-bail-request/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

A US judge denied Ghislaine Maxwell's third bail request even after the former girlfriend of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein tried to allay concern over potential flight risk by offering to renounce her citizenship in the UK and France.

US District Court Judge Alison Nathan ruled on Monday that Maxwell will have to remain incarcerated, rather than being allowed to post bail and be released while awaiting her trial. Nathan said none of Maxwell's new arguments and offers – which also included putting her and her spouse's assets in a court-monitored account – changed her opinion that the socialite poses a flight risk.

The judge also closed the door on prospects for bail being granted if Maxwell makes some other concessions, saying, "There are no combination of conditions that can reasonably assure her appearance" in court.

Maxwell's lawyers had argued that by renouncing her British and French citizenships, she would ensure that she wouldn't be able to seek the extradition protections that apply to citizens of the two countries. Putting assets in a monitored account would ensure that she wouldn't use the money to flee from prosecution, her lawyers said.

Maxwell, 59, was arrested last July after being indicted by a federal grand jury on six charges related to her alleged role in recruiting teenage girls for the late financier Epstein to sexually abuse. She allegedly groomed the girls, one of whom was 14, and sometimes participated in the abuse. She's being held in a Brooklyn, New York jail.

Epstein also was in a New York jail when, according to law enforcement authorities, he killed himself in August 2019. The phrase "Epstein didn't kill himself" later became an internet meme, disputing the suicide ruling amid speculation about the powerful people who may have been incriminated by the testimony in his case.

Lawyers for Maxwell earlier this year filed a motion seeking dismissal of the charges against her based on any of a dozen claims, including an argument that the grand jury that indicted her didn't have enough black and Hispanic people. The fact that Maxwell is white "does not deprive her of standing to raise this challenge," her lawyers said.

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From Phil Giraldi:
Ghislaine Maxwell Is Finally on Trial!
Don't expect much – the cover-up has already begun!
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/ghislaine-maxwell-is-finally-on-trial/

Jeffrey Epstein procurer Ghislaine Maxwell is finally in court going through the juror selection process and opening arguments after a 17 month stay at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Given Epstein's somewhat suspicious departure from this earth in what may have been a murder rather than a suicide, Maxwell has been jailed under a somewhat more intrusive regime, with constant surveillance and only limited ability to do anything but sit on her concrete bunk and contemplate her future. She has complained frequently about her isolation, abuse by jailers and the terrible food. She was undoubtedly correct about the food. Her offer of as much as $28 million in bail money in return for her freedom while awaiting trial was turned down by the judge who observed that Maxwell had more than fifteen separate bank or investment accounts as well as multiple passports. She suggested that Ghislaine might have much more money and other assets squirreled away outside the United States, making her a flight risk, presumably to flee to Israel which has no extradition agreement with the US.

There is significant back story to consider when examining the Ghislaine Maxwell/Jeffrey Epstein saga. The suspicion that Epstein was working for Israel's external intelligence agency Mossad or for its military intelligence counterpart is based on considerable evidence and that he was being "protected" has also seemingly been confirmed through both Israeli and American sources. Indeed, there already exists some evidence that Epstein was granted unusual leniency when he was convicted in Florida of sex crimes in 2008 involving 19 underage girls and received a sentence that was little more than a slap on the wrist. After the fact, the US Attorney for Miami Alexander Acosta, who was involved in the case, reported that the arrest and sentencing were above his pay grade, that he had been told that Epstein "'belonged to intelligence', and to leave it alone" a comment that apparently was never been pursued by investigators.

Also, a recent book Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales written by Ari Ben-Menashe the former Israeli intelligence officer who actually claims to have run the Epstein operation, described inter alia how Epstein was blackmailing prominent politicians on behalf of Israeli intelligence. Epstein had been working directly for the Israeli government since the 1980's and his operation, which was funded by Israel and also by prominent American Jews, was a classic "honey-trap" which used underage girls as bait to attract well-known politicians from around the world, a list that included Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton. Clinton reportedly flew at least 26 times on Epstein's private 727 the "Lolita Express" to a mansion estate in Florida as well as to a private island owned by Epstein in the Caribbean. The island was referred to by locals as the "Pedophile Island." The politicians would be photographed and video recorded when they were in bed with the girls. Afterwards, they would be approached and asked to do favors for Israel.

Ghislaine Maxwell is in fact the daughter of top Israeli spy Robert Maxwell, who received a state funeral in Israel after his mysterious death in 1991 which was attended by the prime minister as well as by all the former and serving heads of that country's intelligence services. Ghislaine is presumed to have been an active participant in the Epstein operation acting as a procurer of young girls and on at least one occasion has hinted that she knows where the sex films made by Epstein are hidden. She also has claimed that the tapes featured both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.

It doesn't take much to pull what is already known together and ask the question "Who among the celebrities and top-level politicians that Epstein cultivated were actually Israeli spies?" And, of course, there is a subplot. Assuming that Epstein was in fact involved in recruiting and/or running high level American agents in an "influence operation" that may have involved blackmail it is plausible to come to the conclusion that he was killed in prison and that the suicide story was just a convenient cover-up. The Epstein case remains technically "open" and under investigation though it doesn't seem that anything is actually happening, the sure sign that someone powerful in the Establishment is making certain that nothing incriminating surfaces. That is sometimes referred to as a government cover-up.

So, given all the drama and possibilities, one might plausibly ask why the media coverage of Maxwell, for all its allure of deviant sex combined with possible espionage, so much less in the media spotlight than were the recent Rittenhouse and Arbery trials? And even less than the ongoing trial of Elizabeth Holmes. Well, the answer is actually quite simple, even ignoring the liberal media's desire to inflame racial passions whenever possible. We are in an era of government control of information and are witnessing selective management of what Maxwell is being charged with to eliminate any possible damage to senior US politicians or to Israel.

Television courtroom dramas notwithstanding, the fact is that people are only tried in court once they have been charged in advance with specific crimes. And the crimes they are charged with depend on what emerges from the police and other law enforcement investigation. The result then goes to a frequently politically biased district attorney who, if he agrees there is a case, then passes the case on to an elected or politically appointed judge for trial. That means in practice that trials by jury go through a winnowing process before they reach the courtroom and what comes out at the end is often only what the criminal justice system regards as "winnable" or desirable in terms of prevailing political viewpoints.

Or to put it another way apropos of Maxwell and Epstein, in spite of considerable evidence suggesting espionage, there is absolutely no suggestion that either the New York City police or the Federal Bureau of Investigation ever seriously interrogated either party on their relationships with IsraeI and with Israeli intelligence. Nor is there any indication that "celebrities" who might have been targeted like Bill Clinton were ever even questioned. That is no coincidence, as Israel almost always avoids any scrutiny. Indeed, Israel, in spite of its demonstrated and well-documented history of massive spying in the United States is unlikely ever to be confronted in a court of law because there is a bipartisan consensus that such an embarrassment to the world's greatest friendship between Jerusalem and Washington should never be subjected to any serious examination. That is why Maxwell has only been charged with helping the convicted sexual predator Epstein traffic and sexually abuse four women, three of whom were underage, as well as lying in a civil suit. She has denied the charges and is heavily lawyered-up to make her defense which will likely involve debunking the nature and closeness of her relationship with Epstein. A suitable plea bargain after a few weeks of court room jousting is a likely outcome.

Maxwell's eight count indictment was issued on March 29th. If her defense fails to convince and she is convicted on all the charges, which relate to sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy, Maxwell could receive as much as an 80-year prison sentence. Epstein likewise was only arrested and charged with sex trafficking and abuse of minors when he died while awaiting trial, not with being involved with a foreign country in engaging in espionage directed against the United States as well as other nations. There are, by the way, laws against such activity, including the Espionage Act of 1918 and the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) of 1938, the latter of which has recently been enforced against Russian media outlets. If anyone expects the espionage angle to surface even implicitly during the Maxwell trial, they will be terribly disappointed because Alison Nathan, the Obama appointed j udge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and, appropriately enough, a Lesbian, will not allow it, the prosecutor will not seek it, and the defense attorneys will not use it in their arguments.

So do not expect anything dramatic to happen in the New York courtroom. One has to suspect that a tale of Mossad running a major spy ring in the US using a pedophile and young girls might just be too much for some folks in power to tolerate and they have made sure that that aspect of the story will never see the light of day. That is the real story that is being conveniently covered-up. Israel yet again spies and Washington denies.

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Ian Maxwell on the treatment of Ghislaine

The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell has gripped the world, a woman accused of truly horrendous crimes. But have we as a society thrown out the cardinal rule of innocent until proven guilty? Freddy Gray sits down with her brother Ian Maxwell who believes that her treatment pre-trial has been nothing short of torturous.

23-minute audio here:  https://www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/ian-maxwell-on-the-treatment-of-ghislaine?irclickid=TefQas1PHxyIT5C0Hp18ty7gUkGzeTxIe35RRc0&utm_source=27795&utm_medium=planit_affiliates&irgwc=1

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Ghislaine Maxwell found GUILTY

Jury reaches decision in Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking trial
Jury finds Epstein's 'madam' Ghislaine Maxwell guilty on sex trafficking charges in a high-profile trial
https://www.rt.com/news/544744-maxwell-epstein-guilty-verdict/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Ghislaine Maxwell, a former confidant of sex trafficker and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has been found guilty on five of six counts linked to helping the late financier groom and recruit teenage girls for abuse.

The British socialite was convicted on Wednesday, including on the most serious charge of trafficking a minor for sex, following six days of deliberation by the jury. She has yet to be sentenced, but initially faced up to 80 years in prison over the six counts.

Though Maxwell was found not guilty on a charge of enticing an individual under the age of 17, identified only as Jane, to travel with the intent to engage in sexual activity, she was convicted on a total of five sex crimes, each involving trafficking of underage girls or conspiring to do so, according to a verdict sheet obtained by journalist Adam Klasfeld.

After the guilty verdict was read, Maxwell reportedly little emotion, seen pulling down her face mask and pouring a glass of water, according to Reuters.

The jury's deliberations kicked off on December 20 and were briefly paused for Christmas. During that time, concerns were raised that the trial could be disrupted due to the rapid spread of Covid-19 through New York City. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Judge Alison Nathan warned that an "astronomical spike" in infections could even result in a mistrial should a large number of jurors fall ill.

At the same time, Nathan insisted that he was not trying to pressure the jury to reach the verdict faster, saying that they "should take all the time" they might need.

Both Epstein's and Maxwell's trials have included explosive allegations that minors groomed by the couple had numerous interactions with prominent public figures, including former US presidents and British royalty.One accuser, identified only as "Jane" to protect her identity during the trial, testified that Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump when she was just 14, and that she shared a flight with UK's Prince Andrew on the financier's private jet. Jane did not allege any misconduct by Trump or the Duke of York, however, but said the two were friends with Epstein during the time he abused her. Other known associates of Epstein include ex-US President Bill Clinton, billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Prince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, as well as Charles Althorp, the brother of the UK's late Princess Diana.

During closing arguments last week, the prosecution said that Maxwell was Epstein's "partner in crime" and a "sophisticated predator" who helped the notorious financier to recruit underage girls for sex. The prosecutors argued that Maxwell "made her own choices" and "knew exactly what she was doing."

Epstein committed suicide in his New York City prison cell as he awaited trial for his own sex trafficking charges in 2019.

Maxwell's defense, however, insisted she was not involved in the abuse and was being scapegoated for the wealthy financier's actions, for which he was never tried or held accountable.

"Epstein's death left a gaping hole in the pursuit of justice for many of these women. [Maxwell is] filling that hole, and filling that empty chair," defense attorney Bobbi Sternheim said in court.

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One of the reasons I avoid people with BIG (put on) smiles.

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Ghislaine Maxwell Convicted – Israel connection covered up
https://israelpalestinenews.org/ghislaine-maxwell-convicted-israel-connection-covered-up/

Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for sex trafficking of girls omits the Israel connection and possible 'honey trap' strategy...
When will the US Justice Department go after the powerful men the girls were being trafficked to, and investigate credible claims that Israel was using Jeffrey Epstein in a blackmail scheme?

By Philip Giraldi

There has been a lot of speculation regarding whether convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell will now 'spill the beans' on the folks in power who exploited those young female offerings pedophile Jeffrey Epstein made available. No chance of that, I am afraid, as the trial itself was narrowly construed and limited to certain sex related charges to avoid any inquiry into the names of the actual recipients of the services being provided.

Nor was there any attempt made to determine if Epstein was working on behalf of a foreign intelligence service, most likely Israeli, which has been claimed in a recent book by a former Israeli case officer, who states that top politicians would be photographed and video recorded when they were in bed with the girls. Afterwards, they would be approached and asked to do favors for Israel. It is referred to in the trade as a "honey-trap" operation.

The fact that Epstein and his activities were being "protected" has also been confirmed through both Israeli and American sources. It is known that Bill Clinton flew on the Epstein private 727 jet the "Lolita Express" 26 times, traveling to a mansion estate in Florida as well as to a private island owned by Epstein in the Caribbean. The island was referred to by locals as the "Pedophile Island," but Clinton has never even been questioned by either the NYPD or FBI.

Maxwell is presumed to have been an active participant in the Epstein spy operation acting as a procurer of young girls and on at least one occasion has hinted that she knows where the sex films made by Epstein are hidden. That claim was also not explored in what passed for a trial.

It doesn't take much to pull what is already known together and ask the question "Who among the celebrities and top-level politicians that Epstein cultivated were actually Israeli spies?" But that, of course, is where the judicial farce and cover-up began. We are in an era of government control of information and have just been witnessing selective management of what Maxwell was being charged with to eliminate any possible damage to senior US politicians or to Israel.

If anyone had actually expected the espionage angle to surface even implicitly during the Maxwell trial, they must now be terribly disappointed because Alison Nathan, the Obama appointed judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York did not allow it, the prosecutor did not seek it, and even the defense attorneys did not use it in their arguments."

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Ghislaine Maxwell is seeking a new trial following reports of juror's sex abuse

Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted last week of conspiring to recruit and groom teenage girls to be abused by Jeffrey Epstein, intends to request a new trial after revelations by one of the jurors in her case that he was a victim of sexual abuse, her defense lawyers said Wednesday.

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In interviews published Tuesday and Wednesday by The Independent and the Daily Mail, one juror described a moment during the deliberations when he told fellow jurors in Maxwell's trial that, like some of the victims of the late financier Epstein, he had been sexually abused as a child. And he said he convinced other jurors that a victim's imperfect memory of sex abuse doesn't mean it didn't happen.

"I know what happened when I was sexually abused. I remember the color of the carpet, the walls. Some of it can be replayed like a video," he said he told the jury, according to The Independent. "But I can't remember all the details, there are some things that run together."

Read the full article here:  https://www.wxii12.com/article/maxwell-to-seek-new-trial-after-reports-of-juror-sex-abuse/38678488#

Ann Coulter Calls Out Ghislaine Maxwell Juror As A 'Plant' Working to Set Her Free
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62787

Ann Coulter on Thursday called out Ghislaine Maxwell juror Scotty David as a "plant" working to set her free by running to the press to "announce he lied during jury selection and his lie influenced deliberations."

"One week after guilty verdicts are returned against Ghislaine Maxwell, a juror runs to the press to announce he lied during jury selection and his lie influenced deliberations," Coulter said. "Surely, NO ONE could imagine he was a plant."

https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1479110878410674189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1479110878410674189%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationliberation.com%2F%3Fid%3D62787

From The Daily Mail, " 'Ghislaine was a predator as guilty as Epstein': Maxwell juror describes moment he 'locked eyes' with sex trafficker and reveals his own abuse ordeal":
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10370193/Ghislaine-Maxwell-juror-says-evidence-convinced-panel-predator.html

A juror in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial has revealed how he viewed her as a 'predator', describing the moment he 'locked eyes' with Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice - and revealed his own child sex abuse ordeal to the jury.

Scotty David said he had helped the other members of the jury understand things from a victim's point of view and explained how 'you can't remember all the details' of traumatic memories - this was a crucial line of attack by Maxwell's lawyers who called a 'false memory' expert witness.

David also claimed that the five guilty verdicts returned in New York last week, possibly condemning Maxwell to spend the rest of life behind bars, were for 'all the victims'.

Legal experts said that if David failed to disclose his past experiences before the jury deliberations, Maxwell could have grounds to claim a mistrial and have her convictions quashed.

However, the question of whether a potential juror was a victim of sexual abuse or a relative or friend of a victim was asked in the 50-question survey completed by each juror ahead of selection.

David said he went into the trial firmly believing that Maxwell was 'innocent until proven guilty' and viewing the victims with a skeptical eye.

But, he said, 'After all I've learned, she's just as guilty as Epstein. I don't want to call her a monster, but a predator is the right word.

'She knew what was happening. She knew what Epstein was doing and she allowed it to happen. She participated in getting these girls comfortable so that he could have his way with them.

'And, to me, them returning repeatedly for the money has nothing to do with anything because these girls were minors, and it doesn't matter what incentivized them. It matters what happened to them.'

Nothing would be more appropriate to seal the cover-up than for Maxwell to just be let out of prison.

Kudos to Ann Coulter for being the only prominent conservatives willing to call out who was behind Epstein/Maxwell's blackmail operation. 



Vanity Fair reported in 2019 that "prominent Republicans" think Epstein "was a Mossad agent" but not one of them has been willing to make such accusations publicly. 
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=60510
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62768

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Ghislaine Maxwell is seeking a new trial following reports of juror's sex abuse  

No new trial for Ghislaine Maxwell despite juror's false statement
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-upholds-ghislaine-maxwells-guilty-verdict-despite-jurors-false-2022-04-01/

Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday lost her bid to overturn her U.S. sex trafficking conviction, even after a juror acknowledged having falsely stated before the trial that he had not been sexually abused.

U.S. Circuit Judge Alison Nathan said the juror, a man known in court papers as Juror 50, testified truthfully at a hearing last month, after Maxwell's lawyers said his false answers on a pretrial questionnaire justified granting a new trial.

"His failure to disclose his prior sexual abuse during the jury selection process was highly unfortunate, but not deliberate," Nathan wrote. "The court further concludes that Juror 50 harbored no bias toward the defendant and could serve as a fair and impartial juror."

"Juror 50 does not consider himself a victim and does not let his past define him," Todd Spodek, the juror's lawyer, said in a statement. "He listened to the evidence and was fair and impartial. This is what justice requires, not more."

Lawyers for Maxwell did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Maxwell, 60, was convicted in December of helping the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.

She had pleaded not guilty, saying she was being scapegoated for Epstein's crimes because he was no longer alive. Her sentencing is scheduled for June 28.

Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 at age 66 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.