Posted on 11/28/2021 3:19:13 AM PST by RandFan
Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial is scheduled to start in earnest in federal court in Manhattan on Monday with opening statements about the eagerly awaited case.
The first arguments will set the stage for a six-week trial in which the British socialite’s alleged involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes will be aired in grueling detail, outlining how prosecutors and defense attorneys will approach the proceedings.
Maxwell, 59, stands accused of recruiting and grooming girls for the late disgraced financier, from 1994 to 2004, some of whom were just 14 years old. Epstein’s sometime girlfriend is also accused of participating in his sexual abuse of teenage girls.
Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan federal jail on 10 August 2019, while awaiting his own sex-trafficking trial. Maxwell was arrested on 2 July 2020 in New Hampshire, a year after Epstein’s arrest.
“From the prosecution, you’d expect that they would lay out their case and give a preview of the type of evidence that’s going to come in, and a preview of who the witnesses will be, and they’re going to want to try to lay out their whole story of their case,” said Jennifer Louis-Jeune, a veteran defense attorney in New York, of what to expect in the first days of Maxwell’s trial.
“The defense usually holds back a little bit more in an opening statement because we don’t know what all the evidence is, and we just want the jury to really be thinking critically when they listen to each witness – and to not take what the witness says as being the truth just because they’re on the stand, and to think of how all the witnesses fit together.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I’m not sure what all the actual charges are...other than “being an embarrassment and a threat to the careers of major politicians, billionaires, and princes”. sarcasm implied!
Fake news.
I’m very surprised she’s still alive.
Is Comey’s daughter prosecuting?
How much FICA tax was withheld from Epstein’s young ladies?
Did the young ladies file federal tax returns?
If she lives long enough.
Shes still alive which makes me think she has something prepared. Like with Epstein out of the way, she can point the finger at him for everything and claim there were celebrities and politicians involved but only Epstein would know. She was just a person in the middle. That’s my prediction.
Rather than cash, they received scholarships that were not income and not taxed
Mighty poor defense attorney that wanders into a federal criminal trial without knowing what the prosecutor has. Trial by ambush doesn't exist there.
more background:::
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/united-states-v-ghislaine-maxwell
The charges:::
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1291491/download
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Hey buddy, want to buy a prominent English bridge?
Maybe she was in on killing Epstein... it would clear the way for her to blame him for everything - AND be a hero to the white liberal ‘elite’ perverts who run the democrat party. That would explain why the lowlife slut is still walking the earth..
Will Bill Clinton be attending the trial to provide moral support?
So an I she knows as much as Epstein did maybe she has names and date book in a lawyers safe?.
During coverage someone would run into Bill Clinton and say “Hey, Bill. Saw your picture and heard your name on the TV news today.”
Bill: (faints and then is revived by Secret Service) “Huh?”
“Yeah, it was a retrospective on Presidents who gained in stature after they left office.”
Bill:”Whew. Never know what you’re gonna see on those news shows.”
So am I.
And then she’s prominently pictured at Chelsea’s wedding.
Very strange.
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