U.S. offers to dismiss Ghislaine Maxwell perjury case if sex abuse conviction stands

Metro US ^ | 1/10/2022 | Jonathan Stempel/Reuters

[Nextrush]

New York (Reuters)-The U.S. government is prepared to dismiss two perjury charges against Ghislaine Maxwell if her conviction for aiding Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuses is allowed to stand, according to a joint letter from prosecutors and Maxwell's defense team.

In a Monday night letter to U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan, prosecutors said dismissing the perjury counts would reflect the victims "significant interests in bringing closure to this matter and avoiding the trauma of testifying again."

Prosecutors also asked the Manhattan judge to sentence Maxwell in about three to four months.

Lawyers for Maxwell oppose setting any timetable, believing that one juror's post-trial revelations about having been sexually abused was a "compelling basis" to overturn their client's conviction and grant a new trial, the letter said...

[Col Frank Slade]

Are they offering this in an effort to not have judge declare a mistrial ?

[ealgeone]

Deep state continues to protect itself.

[elpadre]

Why???

[Nextrush]

Most definitely.

[Nextrush]

The feds are afraid of a mistrial now that a juror has talked about their sexual abuse as a child which was supposed to have been found out before the trial to keep this juror off the jury.

[golux]

Of course no men who have actually had sex with these underage girls have been tried or convicted.

[Nextrush]

You’re not supposed to talk about that...sarc

[Pearls Before Swine]

prosecutors said dismissing the perjury counts would reflect the victims' significant interests in bringing closure to this matter

I'd substitute "Government's interest" for "victims' interest."

[llevrok]

Names. We want names of those she procured for.

Only then a plea deal for the perjury charge should be considered

[kiryandil]

golux wrote: "Of course no men who have actually had sex with these underage girls have been tried or convicted."

Because reasons...

‘We brought a saw’: FBI found diamonds, cash, passports, CDs and hard drives after cracking open safe in 2019 raid on Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse

FBI "cleaner" Maguire, a member of an FBI Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, testified Monday that her team found the safe in a dressing room on the building's fifth floor. The mansion had forty rooms and took about 12 hours for her team to fully search.

Asked by a prosecutor at the trial whether the safe was open, Maguire answered: "We brought a saw." Prosecutors showed jurors and members of the public a photo of the safe, dragged by FBI agents to the middle of the dressing room. The hard drives Maguire said were found inside were piled on top of it. It also held jewelry, diamonds, CDs, and multiple passports, Maguire testified.

Maguire said that the scope of the search warrant didn't permit the agents to seize the hard drives and CDs, so she left them atop the safe.

When she got a broader warrant and returned to retrieve them, they were gone...

Imagine that...

[montag813]

How can she be convicted for trafficking if she had no clients?

[supremedoctrine]

That would IMMEDIATELY go places they must at all costs keep hidden-—naming names and revealing things only Ghislaine Maxwell could tell then would blow the lid off all the seats of power in the Western World at least.Therefore they won’t even go there, making the whole thing about Ms. Maxwell and how she is or isn’t guilty as charged.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

What about Bill Clinton? He was as guilty as any person in this case. So all these men who took trips to "fantasy" pederast island are innocent? Not one of them has been charged.

[Sir Bangaz Cracka]

Whatever....just as long as no important people are outed/charged. Thanks Judge.