"Lawyers for Maxwell, a British socialite, argued that she never should have been tried or convicted for her role in luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein, a New York financier. She is serving a 20-year prison term, though she was moved from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas after she was interviewed in July by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche."
"Maxwell's lawyers contended that a non-prosecution agreement reached in 2007 by federal prosecutors in Miami and Epstein's lawyers also protected his "potential co-conspirators" from federal charges anywhere in the country. Maxwell was prosecuted in Manhattan, and the federal appeals court there ruled that the prosecution was proper. A jury found her guilty of sex trafficking a teenage girl, among other charges."
"Maxwell's trial featured accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14 told by four women who described being abused as teens in the 1990s and early 2000s at Epstein's homes. Neither Maxwell's lawyers nor the federal Bureau of Prisons has explained the reason for her transfer, but one of her lawyers, David Oscar Markus, has said she is "innocent and never should have been tried, much less convicted." Markus also was the lead lawyer on her Supreme Court case."
The Supreme Court declined to hear Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal, leaving her conviction intact. Maxwell was convicted in Manhattan on sex-trafficking and related charges and is serving a 20-year federal sentence. Her lawyers argued that a 2007 non-prosecution agreement in Miami shielded Epstein's potential co-conspirators from federal prosecution elsewhere. The trial included testimony from four women who described sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14 at Epstein's homes in the 1990s and early 2000s. The Trump administration urged the court not to intervene, and the justices gave no explanation for denying review.
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