The Supreme Court refused on Monday to consider thrown the condemnation of sex traffic in 2021 by Ghislaine Maxwell, the long -standing partner of the sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell is serving a 20 -year prison sentence after being found guilty of conspiracy with and helping Epstein in her sexual abuse of minor girls. It was put in the spotlight this summer while the Trump administration faced intense pressure to disclose new information on the Decadelong program.
“We are, of course, deeply disappointed that the Supreme Court refused to hear the case of Ghislaine Maxwell. But this fight is not over,” said David Oscar Markus, Maxwell lawyer in a statement. “Serious legal and factual problems remain, and we will continue to continue all available avenues to ensure that justice is done.”
Her appeal to judges delivered a non-preparation agreement in 2007 that Epstein signed with federal prosecutors, which she said that her conviction raped.
The agreement allowed Epstein to avoid federal accusations for pleading guilty to sexual crimes in the level of the state in Florida and purge 18 months in prison. He also included an unusual clause of co-conspirators, who, according to her, links each American lawyer in the country to continue certain accusations against her.
The lower courts have concluded that the agreement only covers the southern district of Florida, where the agreement has been signed, and does not apply to New York federal prosecutors who obtained the sentence of Maxwell.
“In this case, the government has made a written promise that Epstein co-conspirators would not be prosecuted by the United States, and Maxwell was in fact prosecuted as Epstein co-conspirator by the United States,” said Maxwell’s lawyer David Oscar Markus, in his April petition.
“The only question is whether the government’s promise that the” United States “would not pursue it was enforceable against the American prosecutor’s office in New York, or only against the southern Florida district,” he continued, urging the court exam.
The Ministry of Justice opposed Maxwell’s appeal, rejecting its assertion that the non-propulsion agreement applies to each judicial district of the country.
“While” the United States “could in theory refer to the whole of federal government, as the petitioner urges, the full and the context of the ABN clearly indicates that the term is used – as is often the case – as another means of reference to the USAO by executing the agreement,” said General D. John Sauer in July.
While Maxwell’s petition awaited a revision at the Supreme Court, it simultaneously made openings to President Trump, who faced strong criticisms on the processing by his administration of the so-called Epstein files.
Trump’s political basis exploded in frustration after the Ministry of Justice in July said that Epstein had no “list of customers” and confirmed that his death in 2019 was suicide, two flash points for skeptics that have long said that the government has covered the truth.
In the midst of increasing tensions, the deputy prosecutor Todd Blanche met Maxwell in two days, during which she said that she “had never seen” Trump in “an inappropriate setting”. Critics of the president accused him of retaining information on the case of Epstein because he is appointed in the files.
After the meeting, Maxwell was transferred from a correctional establishment in Florida in a low -security prison camp in Texas. The Democrats of the Chamber Committee on surveillance and government reform asked the office of the Inspector General of the Doj to investigate this decision.
Trump said in July that he was “authorized to make him forgive”, but that “no one approached me with that”.
Updated at 11:30 am Hae
