In a bid to chip away at her six-count criminal indictment, Ghislaine Maxwell lambasted the government’s case on grounds of vagueness and double jeopardy.
A photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is displayed during a July 2020 news conference in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
MANHATTAN (CN) Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in July 2020, nearly a year to the day that sex-trafficking charges landed her longtime associate Jeffrey Epstein, with whom she was once romantically linked, in the jail cell where he would be found dead one month later.
Attacking that case Monday night in a series of court filings, defense lawyers accuse the government of obtaining Maxwell’s grand jury indictment in suburban White Plains, rather than in New York City, in a rush to bring Maxwell in on the anniversary of Epstein’s arrest.