Prosecutors oppose Ghislaine Maxwell s 3rd quest for bail
LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press
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NEW YORK (AP) Prosecutors urged a judge to reject a third quest for bail by a British socialite charged with soliciting teenage girls in the 1990s for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse.
There are multiple reasons to deny Ghislaine Maxwell’s effort at freedom before her July trial, prosecutors said in a Tuesday filing in Manhattan federal court.
Last month, the 59-year-old Maxwell argued through her lawyers that bail should be granted because she is willing to renounce her citizenship in England and France. She also maintained that the evidence against her was exposed as weak by pretrial motions from her defense lawyers.
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Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell during a July news conference in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
MANHATTAN (CN) Finding that Ghislaine Maxwell poses the same flight risk as when she was arrested, a federal judge refused Monday to let the British socialite out of jail before her trial on charges of assisting Jeffrey Epstein recruit girls and young women for sex.
U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan concluded that none of the information that Maxwell’s attorneys presented in support of her latest bid to be released on a $28.5 million bail package had a “material bearing on the court’s determination that she poses a flight risk.”
Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell during a July 2 news conference. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
MANHATTAN (CN) Accusing the government of scapegoating her to make up for its aborted prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell told a federal judge Wednesday that her relationship with the late pedophile is no reason to deny her bail.
The 58-year-old British socialite made her latest demand for freedom today as part of a $28.5 million bail package she proposed earlier this month.
“With regard to any other defendant, this record would readily support release on strict bail conditions, perhaps even on consent,” Maxwell’s attorney, Mark Cohen of Cohen & Gresser, wrote in the Wednesday filing. “But this is Ghislaine Maxwell, the apparent substitute for Jeffrey Epstein.”