"The justices turned away an appeal by Maxwell, a British socialite and Epstein's former girlfriend who is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being found guilty in 2021 by a jury in New York on charges including sex trafficking of a minor. By doing so, the justices let stand a lower court's decision upholding Maxwell's conviction. Maxwell's lawyers contend that her conviction was invalid because a non-prosecution and plea agreement that federal prosecutors made with Epstein in Florida in 2007 also shielded his associates"
"The Republican president and his administration have been trying to tamp down a political furore that erupted after the Justice Department's decision not to release files from its investigation of Epstein - despite earlier pledges to do so - infuriated some of Trump's most loyal followers. Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges."
The Supreme Court declined to hear Maxwell's appeal, leaving in place a lower court's decision that upheld her conviction. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after a 2021 New York jury found her guilty on charges including sex trafficking of a minor. Maxwell's lawyers argue a 2007 non-prosecution and plea agreement that federal prosecutors made with Epstein in Florida shielded his associates and should have barred her prosecution. Maxwell was arrested in 2020 after federal prosecutors accused her of recruiting and grooming girls for sexual encounters with Epstein between 1994 and 2004. Epstein died by suicide in 2019.
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