Epstein ex Ghislaine Maxwell loses bail bid for 5th time
LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press
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NEW YORK (AP) For a fifth time, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has lost a bid to be freed on bail while she awaits trial on charges she recruited teenage girls for the millionaire Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan issued a brief order Wednesday rejecting Maxwell’s latest request. The three-judge panel that issued it did not elaborate.
The appeals court had rejected a bail request once before and her trial judge had thrice said no.
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In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell, far right, appears in Manhattan Federal court seated next to her attorney Bobbi C. Sternheim (Elizabeth Williams/AP)
A judge ordered the US government to explain why guards repeatedly flash light into Ghislaine Maxwell’s cell overnight, an action her lawyers say may have led to a bruise over one eye as she awaits trial in an alleged sex trafficking conspiracy with ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein.
US District Judge Alison J. Nathan issued the order after a lawyer for Maxwell complained that guards threatened to punish her client after Maxwell was unable to explain a bruise above one eye that was noticed on Wednesday night when she saw her reflection in a nail clipper.
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