"The Supreme Court on Monday rejected two cases of great interest to Donald Trump. The justices declined to hear the criminal appeal of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, who hoped to overturn her guilty verdicts based on a non-prosecution agreement protecting Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirators. The other case, involving Turkish state-run bank Halkbank, produced one of the longest-running scandals of Trump's first term, as multiple U.S. Attorneys and cabinet members denounced his attempts to interfere with the prosecution of a multi-billion dollar money laundering operation."
""We are committed to ensuring that convicted child sex trafficker Maxwell serves out the entirety of her 20-year sentence in prison, where she belongs," relatives Sky and Amanda Roberts and Danny and Lanette Wilson wrote in a statement. "We remain hopeful that the DOJ will realize that she belongs in a maximum security prison, not the country club one she is currently in, the first human trafficker ever to have been afforded that privilege.""
The Supreme Court declined to hear two high-profile criminal appeals. Ghislaine Maxwell sought to overturn guilty verdicts citing a non-prosecution agreement tied to Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirators. Relatives called for Maxwell to serve her full 20-year sentence and criticized her transfer to a less restrictive facility; that transfer required the Bureau of Prisons to suspend her sex offender status. Donald Trump previously said he might consider a pardon and publicly wished her well before her trial. The court also refused to hear the appeal of Türkiye's state-run Halkbank, a case linked to an alleged multi-billion dollar Iran money-laundering scheme and reported attempts at interference by Trump and associates.
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