Federal judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s ‘miscarriage of justice’ claim and bid for prison release
NEW YORK (AP) — Claims by Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell that her sex trafficking conviction was a “complete…
A federal judge has dismissed Ghislaine Maxwell's attempt to overturn her 20-year prison sentence on sex trafficking charges, declaring her claims of a "complete miscarriage of justice" to be unfounded. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer rejected Maxwell's habeas petition, stating that her arguments were based on "speculation, distortions, and/or outright falsehoods."
Maxwell argued that withheld evidence and false testimony during her 2021 trial would have resulted in her exoneration, but the judge found no evidence to support these assertions. The former girlfriend of convicted financier Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell was arrested in 2020 and convicted of sex trafficking in December 2021.
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