Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell are offering U.S. authorities a $28 million bail package, insisting that the British socialite and accused accomplice of sex offender Jeffery Epstein is not a flight risk.
Maxwell has been in custody since July and has pleaded not guilty to multiple federal counts related to sex trafficking of minors involving Epstein. The charges include conspiracy, perjury, enticement of a minor to travel to engage in illegal sexual acts and transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
If convicted, Maxwell faces up to 35 years in prison. Her trial is scheduled to begin in July.
In their court filing in Manhattan District Court on Monday, defense attorneys proposed the bail offer — and revealed for the first time that Maxwell has been married since 2016.
“Ms. Maxwell now proposes the following $28.5 million bail package, which is exceptional in its scope and puts at risk everything that Ms. Maxwell has — all of her and her spouse’s assets, her family’s livelihood, and the financial security of her closest friends and family — if she were to flee, which she has no intention of doing,” the filing said.
If granted, the bond would be secured with $8 million in property and $500,000 in cash, the filing noted. Additionally, Maxwell’s relatives and friends have agreed to give an additional $5 million.
If released on bail, Maxwell would live somewhere in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island or Long Island for the term of the bail and would personally pay for 24-hour surveillance, the proposal states.
“For her own safety, Ms. Maxwell will also have on-premises security guards 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” attorney Mark Cohen said. “Ms. Maxwell wants to stay in New York and have her day in court so that she can clear her name and return to her family.”
Prosecutors have argued that Maxwell is a substantial flight risk and cited fiscal transfers totaling more than $20 million from 2007 to 2011 between accounts belonging to she and Epstein, who killed himself in a New York City jail last year while awaiting trial.
The billionaire Epstein had been charged with trafficking girls as young as age 14 in the early 2000s at his homes in Manhattan and Florida. He pleaded not guilty.
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Great job, William Barr for not putting Maxwell, this less than you know what, under oath and prosecuting the politicians and the elites, who slept with underage girls. Totally disgusting, but this is the way it works in Washington and the country with the politicians and the elites / politically connected.
Politicians and elites are the ones who raised her bail.
For all we know, he was possibly IN ON IT from the get go.
When will the contents of her address book be revealed? Why is it that the media seems to not care about the names?
For all we know, that “note booK’ has already been burned to ash. Along with all copies and other records.
Bribery? Really?
i am suprised she has not commited suicide yet…….wink wink
It’s called Arkanscide.
Two of the names on her list of customers are Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.
We now know why Bill was so horny. Hillary preferred girls.
Maybe they tried.. BUT failed.
She had better make arrangements with the court that will guarantee the address book is turned over to the prosecution, especially in the event of her death at the hands of Hillary’s hit squad.
I personally would like to see Ms. Maxwell sit a couple of years in a cell with 24/7 guards and lots of working cameras. 5 minutes alone will be certain death for her.
EVEN IF IT does get turned over DO YOU EVEN FOR one second, believe a SINGLE rich hack, politician or lawyer/judge that’s named in it, will spend a single hour in jail?
If she gets out on bail, her life would be in danger, of course of she is left in jail her life is in danger.
WITH THE # of dems out there, who are on her lists, OF COURSE her life is in jeopardy.. NO matter where she goes.