Epstein Files: Ghislaine Maxwell asks for conviction to be overturned | LBC
Disgraced British socialite and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell has appealed to the US Supreme Court to throw out her 2021 sex trafficking conviction.
Ghislaine, the daughter of late newspaper mogul Robert Maxwell, is arguing she is covered by the 2007 plea deal Epstein reached with South Florida prosecutors to not charge any of his accomplices.
Maxwell, who is serving 20 years, has come under a renewed spotlight in recent weeks following intense scrutiny of the Trump White House for its failure to release the contents of the so-called ‘Epstein Files’.
President Trump’s Justice Department earlier this month wrote it opposed the Supreme Court taking up Maxwell’s appeal.
“Rather than grapple with the core principles of plea agreements, the government tries to distract by reciting a lurid and irrelevant account of Jeffrey Epstein’s misconduct,” Maxwell’s legal team argued in their petition to the highest court in the US.
“But this case is about what the government promised, not what Epstein did,” wrote legal power-couple, David and Mona Markus.
Tom Swarbrick is joined by lawyer Spencer Kuvin, who represented nine of Epstein’s victims, to discuss the case.
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