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Attorney: Ghislaine Maxwell 'withering to a shell of her former self' in jail
The Hill ^ | 02/17/21 09:55 AM EST | BY CAMERON JENKINS

Posted on 02/17/2021 7:58:29 AM PST by RandFan

British socialite and accused sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is "withering" away while she is in jail due to what her attorney describes as harsh conditions.

“She is withering to a shell of her former self — losing weight, losing hair, and losing her ability to concentrate,” attorney Bobbi Sternheim wrote of Maxwell, according to CNBC. “It is impossible to overstate the deleterious effect of the conditions under which Ms. Maxwell is detained."

Maxwell is being held in connection to charges she is facing for perjury and allegedly recruiting underage girls for Jeffery Epstein, the disgraced financier and sex offender who killed himself while in prison.

Her lawyer described her situation as “over-management," referring to constant surveillance by Brooklyn federal jail guards in an effort to keep her from killing herself, CNBC reported.

Sternheim also said Maxwell had been abused during a search.

“Maxwell continues to be at the mercy of a revolving group of security officers who are used to guarding hundreds of inmates but now focus their undivided attention exclusively on one respectful, middle-aged female pretrial detainee,” Sternheim wrote. “Recently, out of view of the security camera, Ms. Maxwell was placed in her isolation cell and physically abused during a pat down search. When she asked that the camera be used to capture the occurrence, a guard replied ‘no.’ ”

Maxwell was previously denied bail by District Judge Alison Nathan after being deemed a flight risk. Her request to be moved to the general population within the Brooklyn jail was also denied in August of last year.

She has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting her court trial, which is scheduled for July of this year.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cavitysearch; clintoncrimefamily; maxwell; podesta; spiritcooking
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To: RandFan

How is Julian Assange doing?


21 posted on 02/17/2021 8:21:51 AM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: captmar-vell

She deserves NO sympathy, just pure justice and the minute she dies, she will get in full measure from God!


22 posted on 02/17/2021 8:23:12 AM PST by princess leah (Princess Leah)
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To: americas.best.days...

“ It’s not right that someone who is denied bail and is locked up, does not have their trial scheduled for a year and a half away.”

You are correct. Will she get off for her civil rights being violated? Maybe that’s the plan.


23 posted on 02/17/2021 8:23:39 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Gene Eric

Is the goal to wither her to death before July?

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We will see wither or not they succeed!


24 posted on 02/17/2021 8:25:49 AM PST by Graybeard58 (The China virus doesn't scare me, Venezuelaism does.)
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To: RandFan
“She is withering to a shell of her former self — losing weight, losing hair, and losing her ability to concentrate..."

Lead poisoning in the water? Low levels of arsenic? Needs to be checked out. First thing is a comprehensive blood panel.
25 posted on 02/17/2021 8:33:37 AM PST by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: Leaning Right

“I still don’t understand what Maxwell was doing in the U.S.”

The only thing I can think of is that it’d probably be easier to take her out anywhere else in the world. Then I remember that Jeffery Epstein didn’t kill himself in a US prison. That blows apart my theory.


26 posted on 02/17/2021 8:36:29 AM PST by edh
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To: RandFan

If she participated in trafficking young girls, it serves her right.


27 posted on 02/17/2021 8:37:44 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: princess leah

I’m interested in exactly who it was in the Court/DOJ system that green-lighted Jeffrey Epstein and now Ghislaine being brought in, as they we’re previously untouchable?

It cant be whoever it was that took out Epstein, it would’ve been far easier to have an ‘accident’ outside of jail/prison (or then again perhaps not easier)


28 posted on 02/17/2021 8:45:11 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: RandFan

Discomfort. Sort of like what her victims experienced?


29 posted on 02/17/2021 8:46:14 AM PST by lurk ( )
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To: RandFan
Zero Foxtrot.

Give her more time to think about how those girls she prostituted to the power elite must have felt...

30 posted on 02/17/2021 8:49:15 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: RandFan

I’m vacillating between *Who cares? She deserves what she got.*

and

*It couldn’t happen to a more deserving person *


31 posted on 02/17/2021 8:50:05 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: Leaning Right

All of the above.

They think they are untouchable.

Her real comeuppance is coming yet, when she faces har Maker.


32 posted on 02/17/2021 8:51:35 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: bray
Tell that to all the boys and girls who were raped at Pedo Island.

Excellent point.

No one in the Leftist Media talks about that, just as they don't speculate on how babies taken from a womb by an abortionist feel about their shortened lives or the pain of being stabbed with sharp scissors or bashed in the skull.

33 posted on 02/17/2021 8:53:02 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: RandFan

She ain’t getting out alive. She knows too much on too many big shots. John Roberts is probably nervous as a sheep in Montana.


34 posted on 02/17/2021 8:53:42 AM PST by sport
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To: RandFan

I’m in my 60s could stand to lose some weight but losing hair, and losing the ability to concentrate, is pretty much average.


35 posted on 02/17/2021 8:54:39 AM PST by maddog55 ((the only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!))
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To: RandFan

Setting up the table for her “suicide”? Ya know...diminished capacity


36 posted on 02/17/2021 8:55:34 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: RandFan

How many y of her victims have been scarred for life? Not feeling any sympathy for her here


37 posted on 02/17/2021 9:06:21 AM PST by Bob434
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To: RandFan

Thallium. But I am just a conspiracy theorist.


38 posted on 02/17/2021 9:09:00 AM PST by webheart (COVID was not worth the economic misery that it took to keep me from getting it for 7 months..)
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To: Leaning Right
I still don’t understand what Maxwell was doing in the U.S. She probably has the means to live anywhere in the world.

It's getting from one place to a other that's the tricky part. And I'm pretty sure she would have been immediately extradited by most other countries. Who would want to piss of the US over her? This is not the 1970's and I think even France would send her back.

Anyway, if I were advising her, I’d tell her to sing - make a deal before she accidentally falls down a flight of prison steps while at the same time stabbing herself in the back.

I'd be willing to bet that's exactly what she's hoping for. Trouble is though, the game is stacked in favor of the prosecutor. She's probably thinking if she talks she can go free. The prosecutor is probably only offering a slightly nicer cell in exchange for publicly admitting everything and exposing everyone she know in open court. Now they are having a contest of wills to see who's going to get what they want. Meanwhile she is in effect already serving a sentence.

39 posted on 02/17/2021 9:10:01 AM PST by SeeSharp
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To: RandFan

Adrenochrome withdrawal symptoms


40 posted on 02/17/2021 9:10:17 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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