Judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s ‘frivolous’ attempt to throw out trafficking convictions after Epstein files release
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Judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s ‘frivolous’ attempt to throw out trafficking convictions after Epstein files release
In anything, Maxwell’s latest ‘frivolous’ attempt to escape her sentence only further ‘incriminates her,’ judge says
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A federal judge has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s “lengthy and rambling” attempt to throw out her sex trafficking convictions after she claimed new evidence released by the Department of Justice in connection with her associate Jeffrey Epstein proved her rights at trial and sentencing were violated.
“Maxwell’s claims are all meritless and all or almost all are frivolous,” according to Tuesday’s order from New York District Judge Paul Engelmayer.
Most of her arguments, which she filed herself while imprisoned, were already turned down in appeals courts, while the alleged “new” evidence from the Justice Department’s Epstein files are “largely irrelevant" to her case, the judge said.
“On the contrary, to the extent it is relevant, far from exculpating her, it incriminates her or reinforces the correctness of the legal rulings Maxwell challenges,” he added.
Maxwell, who is now representing herself in her appeals, was found guilty of recruiting and grooming young women and girls for Epstein, who died by suicide in prison in 2019 while awaiting his own trial on trafficking charges.
She argued her 2021 conviction should be rendered “invalid, unsafe and infirm,” she wrote earlier this year.
After the release of millions of documents and images in connection with investigations into Epstein and Maxwell, the convicted trafficker now argues that “further factual development is necessary.”
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