Washington (AP) – supreme court He refused to appeal on Monday Ghislaine Maxwellan imprisoned ex-girlfriend Jeffrey Epstein.
On the first day of their new term, the judge refused to file a lawsuit that would have drawn new attention to the despicable sexually abused Saga after he sought to curb criticism of President Donald Trump’s administration for refusing to release more investigation files from the Epstein case.
Maxwell’s lawyer, British Social Studiesargued that teenage girls should not be tried or convicted for her role in seducing them to be sexually abused by New York investor Epstein. She serves a 20-year prison term, Moved from a low-security federal prison in Florida After her, she went to a minimum prison camp in Texas Interviewed In July, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Justice, like their habits, did not explain why they left the appeal.
Trump’s Republican administration has urged the High Court to stay away from the case.
Maxwell’s lawyers alleged that non-birth contracts reached by federal prosecutors in Miami in 2007 and Epstein’s lawyers also protected his “potential co-conspirators” from federal accusations within the country.
Maxwell was charged in Manhattan, where the federal court of appeals found the prosecution appropriate. Ju’s judge found her Sex trafficking crime Among other accusations, she is a teenage girl.
Maxwell’s trial featured accounts of sexual exploitation of a young 14-year-old girl Four women who described as being abused as teenagers At the Epstein house from the 1990s to the early 2000s.
Neither Maxwell’s lawyer nor the Federal Prison Bureau explains the reason for her transfer, but one of her lawyers, David Oscar Marx, said she is “innocent and should never be convicted.” Marx was also the lead lawyer in her Supreme Court case.
Maxwell was interviewed by Blanche in a Florida courthouse. She was given limited immunity and was free to speak without fear of prosecuting what she said, except in cases where a false statement occurred. She repeats Denied the witness Records released in August show that Trump’s sexually inappropriate interactions meant moving the president away from dishonorable lenders.
Epstein was arrested in 2019 on sex trafficking charges and was accused of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls. A month later he was He was found dead in a prison cell in New York The investigator explained: suicide.
The Epstein case consumed the Trump administration in July following the announcement from the FBI and the Justice Department that Epstein had intimately notwithstanding the theory of conspiracy, but that there was no “client list” that General Pam Bondy had intimate.
The announcement sparked anger from conspiracy theorists and Trump supporters who wanted to see evidence of government cover-up. That expectation was driven in part by comments from officials. FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bonginobefore taking his current position, the podcast repeatedly promoted the idea that it was withheld from undermining details about prominent people.
For example, Patel said in at least one podcast interview that before becoming the FBI director, Epstein’s “Black Book” was “under the direct control of the FBI director.”
However, the Justice Department said it determined that reviewing evidence in government ownership would “will be guaranteed to be appropriate or guaranteed.” The department noted that much of the material was sealed by the court to protect the victims, and “a small portion” would have been “openly aired if Epstein were brought to trial.”
I’m facing Anger from his baseTrump quickly turned the page and shut down Bondi’s questions about Epstein at the White House cabinet meeting, declaring him as a supporter of the “weak” who said he was falling into “Jeffrey Epstein’s hoax.”
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