Amid an explosive fight on Capitol Hill over whether the Trump administration should release records related to Jeffrey Epstein, the family of the disgraced financier’s convicted right-hand woman is saying she “did not receive a fair trial.”
Ghislaine Maxwell, 63, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 forrecruiting and grooming teenage girls for Epstein to sexually abuse, several years after he died in jail awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. She is being held in federal prison in Florida and has filed a petition with the Supreme Court to vacate her 2021 conviction.
“Her legal team continues to fight her case in the Courts and will file its reply in short order to the Government’s opposition in the US Supreme Court,” Maxwell’s siblings said in a statement released Tuesday on a website dedicated to her case.
The family’s defense of Maxwell comes amid a recent politically charged fight over the release of documents in Epstein’s case.
Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, said in the statement that he would be “surprised if President Trump knew his lawyers were asking the Supreme Court to let the government break a deal,” referring to a 2007 agreement with federal prosecutors in Florida.
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