by Frank Bergman, Slay News:
Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has requested that the courts overturn her conviction by citing a prior “non-prosecution agreement” that she says she secured from prosecutors.
62-year-old Maxwell was found guilty for her role in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.
As Slay News reported at the time, she was sentenced in June 2022 to 30 years in prison after being convicted on charges of trafficking and sexually abusing young women and underage girls.
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However, lawyers for Maxwell asked a federal appeals court to throw out her convictions on Tuesday.
Maxwell was convicted in federal court in 2021 for her role in procuring teen girls as victims for Epstein between 1994 and 2004.
Her appeal is being heard in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York.
In a brief filed last year, her attorneys asked the court to review the statute of limitations, an allegation of juror misconduct, and Maxwell’s sentencing.
The lawyers also argue that Maxwell had been granted a prior “non-prosecution agreement” from prosecutors, which they claim the trial violated.
Epstein died in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting his own trial on sex trafficking charges.
Both Maxwell and his brother, Mark Epstein, have publicly doubted the official finding that he hanged himself while alone in his cell.
Maxwell’s lawyers have argued that after Epstein’s death, she became a scapegoat due to outrage over his crimes.
She claims this outrage also extended from the lenient sentence Epstein received in 2008 for a prior child sex conviction – 13 months with work release.
If her appeal fails, Maxwell isn’t eligible for release until July 2037 on multiple counts of child sex trafficking.
She is an inmate at Federal Correctional Institute Tallahassee, a low-security prison in Florida.
Separately, the Epstein saga has received much attention so far in 2024.
Earlier this year, the unsealing of hundreds of documents as part of a civil lawsuit between Maxwell and accuser Virginia Giuffre made headlines.
A civil lawsuit by a dozen other Epstein accusers against the FBI was also filed.
