Posted on 02/08/2021 3:31:40 PM PST by bitt
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s effort to keep under wraps an excerpt from a 2016 deposition that she fears could undermine her criminal trial on charges she aided the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and committed perjury.
U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska said Maxwell had only a “minimal” privacy interest in the 20-line excerpt, because it concerned massages and not private sexual activity of consenting adults, and the public had a right to see her testimony.
“There is no reason not to unseal this portion of testimony,” the Manhattan-based judge wrote. “While the court acknowledges Ms. Maxwell’s interest in a fair criminal trial, Ms. Maxwell can argue all her points to the presiding judge in her criminal trial, as she has already.”
Lawyers for Maxwell did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Preska had previously released large portions of the July 22, 2016 deposition, which came from a now-settled civil defamation lawsuit against Maxwell by Virginia Giuffre, one of dozens of women who have accused Epstein of sexual misconduct.
Maxwell, 59, has pleaded not guilty to a six-count indictment claiming she helped Epstein recruit three teenage girls for sex from 1994 to 1997, and then lied about it.
She has said the 20 lines of testimony was the basis of one of the perjury charges.
That charge covered Maxwell’s denials to ever giving Epstein or anyone else a massage, knowing whether Epstein possessed sex toys and knowing whether Epstein had sex in the 1990s and 2000s with anyone other than herself and two other women.
Maxwell believes prosecutors obtained the deposition transcript illegally, and it should be kept out of her trial.
Her lawyers have said that argument would be compromised if prosecutors could claim that any errors they made were harmless
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My buddy and myself at work sometimes talk about people that live a life of crime.
Unless you are a democrat politician or donate tons of money to them you are sacrificing decades of freedom or even death for a few years of the “good life”
Is it worth it?
Yea...we don’t think so
Sorry G
Is she on suicide watch?
I’d love to see a BUNCH of deep state names come out even if we know who many are already.
Funny how she disappeared until after Pedo Joe took office...
I remember the article, quickly deleted, that said she died of covid.
They have it listed as “a hoax”.
Gaslighting at its finest.
The House of Windsor might be.
She got the Epstein package.
ya...its hard to believe Hunter Biden’s and Gislaine’s paths happened not to have crossed anywhere ..
HA HA HA HA HA
Is there some betting line on when she does suicide?
ya...its hard to believe Hunter Biden’s and Gislaine’s paths happened not to have crossed anywhere ..
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gislaine’s girls had more class than hunter was used to
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