Ghislaine Maxwell appeared virtually for her arraignment yesterday in New York. In a video-linkup, a federal judge heard arguments on whether or not Maxwell should be released on bond pending her trial. Maxwell’s lawyers said they would be interested in a $5 million bond, a surrender of all of her passports, and a “house arrest” at a luxury Manhattan hotel. The judge listened to both sides and then issued a careful ruling of Bitch You Thought.
A federal judge denied bail Tuesday for Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime confidant of disgraced financier and convicted sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying she posed a “substantial” risk of flight before her trial on sexual exploitation charges. The judge set a tentative trial date of July 12, 2021. Maxwell was arrested on July 2 after being indicted in New York for allegedly recruiting and grooming underage girls in the 1990s to be sexually abused by Epstein. She entered a plea of not guilty at Tuesday’s hearing, which was held by video conference due the coronavirus pandemic.
“The combination of the seriousness of the crimes, the potential length of the sentence, the strength of the government’s case at this stage, the defendant’s foreign connections and the defendant’s substantial financial resources all create both the motive and the opportunity to flee,” U.S. District Court Judge Alison Nathan said. The risks of releasing Maxwell on bail, therefore, Judge Nathan concluded, “are simply too great.”
The judge ruled at the conclusion of the nearly three-hour hearing during which Maxwell’s lawyer argued that his client should be released on a strict bail package, while the government argued that no combination of factors short of detention could guarantee her appearance for trial.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Alison Moe called Maxwell “the very definition of a flight risk.” She pointed to her substantial financial resources as well as her British and French citizenships, the latter being of particular note, Moe said, because France does not extradite its own citizens. The court also heard from two of Epstein’s alleged victims, both of whom urged the court to deny bail. One of the women, Annie Farmer, said she was 16 years old when she met Maxwell.
Maxwell’s lawyer also claimed that Maxwell was never on the run from authorities, that she was merely trying to live a quiet life away from the media speculation around her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Considering the FBI was reportedly tracking her for a YEAR, I think that’s debatable. Anyway, I’m glad bail was denied and that Ghislaine has to hang out in a detention center for the foreseeable future. Although, let’s be honest, it’s a pipe dream to think that Ghislaine will stay alive in the detention center for the next year. Come on. Look at the time, Ghislaine. It’s Spill Your Guts O’Clock.
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I bet Andrew and the BRF are sweating now. A year is plenty of time to work out a squeal and deal. Throwing the Sussexes under the bus is not going to save the House of Windsor anymore.
If she has that much time.
How likely is prince Andrew to come testify?
It will not happen, Andrew spoke with a brit journalist who even tried to guide him into expressing sympathy for victims and could not- imagine if he is to sit with police? Even with a plethora of lawyers, Andrew is so dumb and spoiled, he would say something incriminating.
Say what you will of the Courtiers, but they are obssessed with their titles, pageantry and the Queen to the point they confuse the Windsors with England. They will do anything to protect this family and Andrew in particular.
The only way Andrew would sit with the police would be under his conditions and if he could get good press out of it.
Anyway, lots of thing can happen in one year. FFS, CHARLES can happen in one year. and this is the only scenario Andrew would be screwed.
They will be but he is small fish compared to some of other people – people who are far more dangerous than Prince Fat Fingers and Mummy.
Am betting that they will chuck the Cambridges under the bus to deflect from Andrew – I agree its not working using the Sussex’s, people aren’t really buying it.
This is sort of what I suspect, too. They have immense wealth and all that, but as far as being real power anymore? I don’t think they have what other people have.
Pressure’s on to give it up. Her trial date is July 2021. Three passports with different names, home wasn’t purchased directly by her, tin foil covering her phone in an attempt to hide where she was. 🙂 Andy’s the little fish in the pond, the big one being Drumpf.
She was trying to hide. I read she moved 36 times in one year and wrapped her cell phone in foil to prevent it from being traced/traced. This was a women doing the most to hide and arrogantly thinking nothing would ever happen to her. Boohoo b!tch. Just hope she stays Alive.
Moved 36 times in one year? She moved once every ten days for a year. It would take me close to ten days to pack my house. She must have very very few possessions.
She’s going to get Covid in jail. Like she’ll get it for real. She should be offered immunity to spill everything ASAP. She is vile. The rich men that create a market where people like her can operate are more vile. I’m sure her clients have already found another supplier.
Keep in mind that she sexually molested the children as well. I don’t think immunity should remotely be on the table.
Not immunity, but it would be shocked if there wasn’t a plea deal. There has to be dirt on way too many people with power who don’t want to see this go to any kind of trial where evidence could come out publicly.
I bet she’s regretting not “living a quiet life away from the media“ in France, right about now.
And why exactly did she not leave the country?!
This is what I don’t understand. Why did she stay in the US? Unless she couldn’t leave the country. I thought with her supposed connections, she’d have ways, but who knows?
In any case, I don’t think she’ll see the outside of that jail cell. Epstein lasted what – a month? – in prison, before he ‘committed suicide.’
I’d opine it was fear of getting caught. I imagine there was enough information on her taken when the FBI raided Epstein’s homes so she would have been caught leaving the country even with a false passport under an assumed name. They probably knew of the numerous bank accounts she had and would be looking for any suspicious activity – big transfers of money, etc. She purchased the house she was living in when caught through an LLC so nobody would know it was her. Her marriage is probably a sham so she could deal with lawyers, etc. anonymously. I agree with other posters here that she will die under somewhat mysterious circumstances while awaiting trial. Barr will see to it to protect Trump.
And we know France protects its own (cough*Polanski*cough)
Right back atcha with cough Sacoolas cough…
I can imagine that her assets have been frozen and she’s been relying on squirreled away cash and her various co-conspirators. I can’t imagine how she’d be able to cross the border in the middle of a pandemic without raising alarms. Even before that I’d bet anything that the US authorities already had all of her aliases on a watch list.
Next July??? HAH. She won’t even live through *this* July. Barr’s gonna suicide her with COVID-19. The perfect crime.
Lock her and throw away the key.
One of the reasons she was denied bail was because she was secretly married, according to federal prosecutors. What?! If this is true, there could be testimonial privileges, citizenship status, asset transfers, etc.
@Ocho Secretly married? To whom?
Do they have the death penalty in NY State, and will it ever be on the table? (I’m not talking about Barr/possible suiciding, obviously)
New York State got rid of the death penalty in the 1990s. But it’s a federal case so NY State rules don’t apply. But federal death penalty generally only sought in murder cases.
She wouldn’t say.
She absolutely was a flight risk and only right she stays in jail.
But yeah, she needs to ink that cooperation deal with the US Attorney in a hurry, as there’s zero chance she stays alive long enough to make it to trial next year. At least she has a shot in protective custody, although it’s far from a given.
She has a lot of power, and because of that I don’t think Epstein’s client list will ever come to light. She will either die or be protected. I know which option I favor…
Question: if France doesn’t extradite, and she has a French passport, why didn’t she go and hide there?
Maybe she couldn’t get out of the country?
She needed to take lessons from that Nissan CEO… hide in a speaker box aboard a private jet…
LOL! I take it his stunt didn’t work?
@Melisande
🤣🤣🤣She wishes…
to copycat carlos ghosn ‘s way you need insanely great amount of money. Ghosn’ s (stolen) fortune is estimated to be at least 100-200 millions dollars. His evasion alone costed 20 millions.
Ghislaine Maxwell hasn’t been near such big bucks since her epstein days, even if she is said to have nice assets up to 20 millions.
@buenavissta
As a french citizen, i can only speculate Ghislaine french élite friends have made understood she would be persona non grata here.
When i first heard about about the epstein case, it was in 2015, when the infamous prince andrew, virginia giuffre and Ghislaine maxwell London photo was published. I was able to know it because of English and american press articles written about it.
In France, there was nothing published about such a scandalous story.
I always ask myself if there was a censorship here, as the story of the two french twelve years old girls gifted to epstein for his birthday should have awoken our notoriously lazy french justice.
French press was almost absolutely mute until epstein ‘s arrest coming back in jet from France during summer 2019!?….
She was free to come until then.
The worlwide shitstorm which followed put an end to it.
Epstein Links to few big names in modelling, and politics in Paris Were revealed.
Him being able to come freely to his Paris penthouse as a pedophile sexual offender didn’t go well with french People.
There is suspicion of victims being molested here, and police and justice seem to be eager to make inquiries.
As Epstein is now dead, she now bears infamy and responsability nearly on her name alone.
France may be very lenient on sexual attacks and rape, it doesn’t always work.
And Even without the polanski case, we are plagued with sexual scandals in high places since last december:
Ice skating federation(pedophilia), high literature world (pro ephebophila and younger writer Gabriel Matzneff being denounced but having big protection from wealthy and powerful People ), politics (Darmanin being minister and promoted with rape accusations), etc.
She may not want to be made the scapegoat for all the sexual offenders roaming free around the eiffel tower.
Her influent friends may be not mighty enough to help more without being compromised themselves.
She has become radioactive even in France.
This makes me so happy.
Hope she sweats and freezes in her paper clothes, let her catch all the lice and bugs the jail has to offer and may she suffer from urinary infection every fricking day. Amen.
I am shocked she stayed in the US. Why would she not go to France or an non-extradition country?
That’s what I was thinking! I mean…call me crazy…but maybe she wanted to get caught?
Of course she didn’t want to be caught! Wrapping her cell phone in tinfoil? Moving 36 Times and all the rest of it! How was She going to get to France? Everybody was on the look out for her! The moment She set foot in an AirPort/port She Would be hauled in!
“The judge listened to both sides and then issued a careful ruling of Bitch You Thought.”
and THIS is why I keep coming back. I legit guffawed.
Same here! Kaiser has been on a roll lately. Must be the isolation.
Coming here late to send this applause! What a great, and perfectly appropriate, line!
Great lines from Kaiser this week! Bravo
‘The judge listened to both sides and then issued a careful ruling of Bitch You Thought.’
LMAO
It felt good to imagine her shock and her pain.
“ The judge listened to both sides and then issued a careful ruling of Bitch You Thought.”
Bwa ha ha ha ha!!!!! I am HOWLING over here!!! Kaiser, that is too good!! Thank you for the laugh this morning!!!!!
Sounds like she really thought she could fade away quietly. Like I’ve said, my information would be videotaped and my attorney would have to release if I died, period.
While I don’t empathize with her, I don’t believe she will stay alive. Tapes of her cell will be missing and all of you who predict vivid, sounds plausible
Oh, good god.
How long until she “commits suicide?”
Honestly, I love watching this kind of lawyering (when I’m not involved in it). Her defense HAD to know there was a virtually NO chance of her making bail but were obligated to try anyway. I mean, they can’t not show up to the hearing. I was surprised by how low the figure was. $5M is nothing- Epstein offered $100M and was denied.