Not found for a year, does Ghislain Maxwell pose a risk of escape? Lawyers for Former Financial Partner Jeffrey Epstein, Arrested on July 2, Requested that She Be Released on $ 5 Million Bail and House Arrest, Ensuring She Won't Escape Prosecution for Trafficking minors engaged against her.
In a document registered Friday with the federal court of Manhattan, his lawyers assure that this accustomed to the jet set - born in France, educated in England before settling in the United States in 1991 - has no reason to flee abroad.
They assure that many of her relatives are in the United States and not abroad, and that she had been discreet since the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein in July 2019 only to escape the media and protect himself, after having received in particular "death threats".
Under very high surveillance
Lawyers for daughter of ex-British media mogul Robert Maxwell say she has "no extreme risk of absconding" with her clean criminal record, as Manhattan prosecutors say, asking for her. continued detention. The defense also puts forward the risks of infection with the new coronavirus if it were to remain imprisoned.
Ghislaine Maxwell, 58, was charged with "helping, facilitating and contributing to the sexual assaults on minors of Jeffrey Epstein", from 1994 to 1997. She allegedly recruited for the New York financier, found dead in prison in August 2019 , young penniless adolescent girls aged 14 and over. She would have sometimes participated directly in the attacks, and faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted.
After her arrest in New Hampshire, she was transferred to Brooklyn Federal Prison on Monday, pending a hearing on whether to continue her detention, which will be held by teleconference on July 14. Ghislaine Maxwell should on this occasion indicate that she intends to plead not guilty: "Ms. Maxwell vigorously rejects the charges against her and intends to fight them," say the lawyers. What is certain is that after the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, found hanged in his cell a year ago, Ghislaine Maxwell is under heavy surveillance and must dress in clothes… made of paper.
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