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Ghislaine MaxwellA former girlfriend and longtime associate of a late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epsteinhas asked a New York federal court to vacate her sex trafficking conviction.
maxwell is currently serving 20 years in jail For her role in a decade-long scheme with Epstein to sexually exploit and abuse underage girls.
The new habeas petition claims that “substantial new evidence has emerged” showing that Maxwell did not receive a fair trial.
“In light of the entire evidentiary record, no reasonable juror would have found him guilty,” the petition says.
Independent Maxwell’s lawyer has been contacted for comment.
Maxwell has already exhausted all of his usual appeal options and the new plea is a long-term plan. In October, Supreme Court decided not to review Whether prosecutors brought the case against him fairly.
Maxwell’s latest bid for relief from the court comes as a deadline approaches for the Justice Department to release Epstein-related files.
DOJ forced to release information after Congress passes Epstein Files Transparency Act President Donald Trump signed the law in NovemberDespite initially strongly opposing the measure.
Federal prosecutors have until Friday to release the documents, which include records related to the Florida investigation of Epstein — which resulted in a 2008 deal in which the disgraced financier pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution — as well as the Manhattan investigation of Epstein and Maxwell.
These records should include grand jury documents Federal judges in New York and Florida have agreed to unseal,
Federal prosecutors in New York charged Epstein with sex trafficking of minors in 2019 and weeks later He died by suicide in his jail cell,
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 on charges including conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts. During his trial, survivors testified that Maxwell had groomed them, taken their passports, and abused them.
The disgraced British socialite claims in her new habeas petition that information that could have resulted in her acquittal at trial was withheld and perjured testimony was presented to the jury.
Maxwell’s lawyer Wrote in a court filing earlier this month: “The release of grand jury materials from his case, which include unproven and unproven allegations, would cause such severe unfair prejudice that it would eliminate the possibility of a fair retrial” if he were granted a retrial.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act allows the DOJ to withhold documents that could jeopardize an active federal investigation.
Following news of Maxwell’s habeas petition, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, wrote On
maxwell is Currently being held in a minimum security prison in Texas Known as Camp Bryan. After that, he was transferred to a prison in Tallahassee, Florida Meeting with the Justice Department earlier this year,
he is reportedly getting preferential treatment Camp Bryan includes customized hand-delivered meals and a service dog in training for play, according to the Democrat jamie raskinRanking member of the House Judiciary Committee.
FBI Deputy Director on Wednesday also dan bongino announced it he will leave his post The next month after reportedly clashing with the Attorney General palm bondi On the administration’s management of the Epstein files.