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Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted co-conspirator of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, on Wednesday asked a federal court to vacate or correct her conviction and 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking of minors and other offenses -- a move that could complicate the release of the Epstein files as mandated by a new law.

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JUST IN: Jeffrey Epstein accomplice and former girlfirend Ghislaine Maxwell files habeas corpus petition challenging her federal sex trafficking convictions. She is not represented by any attorney in this filing. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26 ...

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-- Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) Dec 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM

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"Maxwell, 63, was convicted in 2021 -- after a three-week trial in Manhattan federal court -- of five felonies, including conspiracy, transportation of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity and sex trafficking of a minor. A higher court rejected her post-trial appeals, and the Supreme Court declined to take up her case."

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"Maxwell's newly filed petition presents a possible wrinkle in the long-running controversy. The Epstein Files Transparency Act contains exemptions permitting Attorney General Pam Bondi to withhold certain records if their publication could jeopardize active criminal investigations or prosecutions.

Last week, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer granted a DOJ motion to lift restrictions on grand jury transcripts and other nonpublic records from the case, citing the requirement of the newly passed legislation.

An attorney for Maxwell had argued that public disclosure of those materials would impact her ability to get a fair retrial if she were to succeed in her bid for a new trial."

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Well, now we know what Trump's Personal/WH lawyers were spending all that time at Club Fed plotting with her about.

But personally, with her Qualifications/Criminal History, I think she's prolly eventually gonna end up in the Cabinet or heading the FBI.

S'trewth!

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-17 06:02 PM | Reply

Pardon me?

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-18 07:33 AM | Reply

Lock her Up?

She already Is.

Carry on then.

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-18 09:04 AM | Reply

@#2 ... Pardon me? ...

Yeah, that seems to be her end goal.

After Pres trump's personal lawyer (who has been reported to be a friend of Ms Maxwell's lawyer) talked with her (about what, exactly), she seemed to have been transferred to a DoJ country club prison. One that is not usual for those who have committed the crimes she was convicted of.

And, not surprisingly, no one in the Trump administration seems to be able to explain why she was transferred or who made the decision to transfer her.

So, more of the cover-up?

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-18 10:13 PM | Reply

i.ytimg.com

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-19 07:19 AM | Reply

One has the decided impression that she is playing all the cards she has, in order to somehow extort Trump and his gang into pardoning her...or else she changes her story as to the innocence of Trump.

#6 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-12-19 07:39 AM | Reply

OK then. She can be let loose after she provides a convincing explanation for why she was hiding out for months, avoiding John Law. Everyone knows that innocent folks don't come forward because they don't have to clear their names--they can just live in places where law enforcement agencies don't know to look...

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2025-12-19 08:22 AM | Reply

Trump is pardoning drug dealers and fraudsters.

Why not pardon a pedophile? Especially one who knows where the dirt is and where the skeletons are hidden.

I expect her to be pardoned any day. But most likely on a day Trumpy needs to interrupt the news cycle with an another good distraction to own the libs, of course.

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-19 04:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#8

SO true... and any shiny object will distract Trumpers while he picks their pockets.

Whether that's with Chinese Bible with his name on it or covering up his involvement with a convicted child sex procurer... convicted of five felonies, including conspiracy, transportation of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity and sex trafficking of a minor.

But as Epstein himself said to her, Trump 'never barked' to authorities about his knowledge of ALL of that.

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-19 06:35 PM | Reply

There shouldn't be pictures of jizzlame in news articles unless they're evidence, her mugshot, or her in a jump suit.

That's it.

#10 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-12-19 06:47 PM | Reply

a prison jumpsuit.

If that wasn't clear.

#11 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-12-19 06:48 PM | Reply

a prison jumpsuit.
If that wasn't clear.
#11 | Posted by horstngraben

...stops asking ChatGPT to draw Ghislaine Maxwell as Catwoman before specifying Lee Merriweather or Eartha Kitt...

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-19 07:24 PM | Reply

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