Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend blames arrest on his death

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


LARRY NEUMEISTER,
Associated Press
Feb. 5, 2021
Updated: Feb. 5, 2021 1:27 a.m.

NEW YORK (AP) — Financier Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend claims she is being prosecuted on sex abuse charges that could put her in prison for life because Epstein killed himself and prosecutors wanted a substitute to replace him with, lawyers said in newly unsealed court papers.

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers challenged the case brought against their client last July on multiple grounds in papers filed last week and unsealed on Thursday with some redactions.

“One does not need to engage in complex analysis to understand what has happened here: the government has sought to substitute our client for Jeffrey Epstein, even if it means stretching — and ultimately exceeding — the bounds of the law,” the lawyers wrote in the Manhattan federal court documents.

“The government’s sudden zeal to prosecute Ms. Maxwell for alleged conduct with Epstein in the 1990s — conduct for which the government never even charged Epstein — follows a history that is both highly unusual and deeply troubling," they added.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Jeffrey-Epstein-s-ex-girlfriend-blames-arrest-on-15926763.php

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Oh! OK.

[Mike Nelson]

1. I think...

... that's true. I also think he shouldn't have done the things that got him arrested.

[ret5hd]

7. What about the things she did?

[safeinOhio]

2. Well, that explains the story all

of those young girl victims are telling.

[Eugene]

3. Plausible, but Maxwell has a credible case to answer even if her claim is true.

If prosecutors can prove Maxwell's involvement in the crimes, messy and imperfect justice will have to do.

Being a henchman instead of the kingpin is not a defense.

[Xipe Totec]

4. The fight started when they hit me back... nt

[NurseJackie]

5. Another horrible ambiguous headline...

Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend blames arrest on his death (His arrest caused his death?)
Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend blames arrest on his death (Her arrest caused his death?)
Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend blames arrest on his death (Oh! I get it... she blames HER being arrested on the fact that he died.)

[TheRickles]

9. Thank you! It gets ridiculous sometimes, trying to figure out what these headlines mean.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. "blames X on Y" never means "X caused Y", it always means "Y caused X"

so your 1st 2 ideas wouldn't have worked.

The one other grammatically possible interpretation was "his death caused his arrest", but you correctly didn't mention that because everyone knows that you don't get arrested after your own death.

[NurseJackie]

11. Okay.

[Ford_Prefect]

6. It is a claim made by those who administered the Nazi death camps. They were not

the ones who ran the ovens, or shot prisoners, or took their possessions, or any of the direct contact with prisoners. Their crime was that they kept score and enabled all of the terrible things which happened there, and knew every detail of the plans and who it was these terrible things were done to, and made it possible to do it ever so efficiently. Only doing their job they would say. Only following orders...to enable something horrible.

Yes she has a case that they are now pursuing charges against her they had planned to apply further to Epstein. But you do have to ask how is it that she was there too, in so many situations so well recorded in those photographs, so ubiquitously part of his scene and mentioned by so many of his victims and his many wealthy "friends".

One is also moved to ask that when they are done with her and begin to work on his wealthy friends, some of whom it seems shared in his tastes and his "scene", will they make the same complaint? How about that Donald?

[csziggy]

18. Many of the victims have said that they were recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell

For Epstein's abuse. Once some of them were abused, they were used to recruit other girls.

Weren't the authorities looking for Maxwell BEFORE Epstein died. If she'd turned herself in then, she could have made a deal and given them valuable information. Now she's the last procurer standing and must take the rap.

[Ford_Prefect]

19. I think that the timing of her complaint is interesting since it comes at a point where

the fund set up to pay victims has ceased to payout claiming a financial shortfall.

Ever since Epstein became exposed and then incarcerated it has become clear that he was the center of a web of abuse and extortion. It has also become clear that there were others beyond Maxwell involved in it. None of them has been prosecuted, notably Trump. Much has been rumored about who among the rich, the powerful, and the famous owed Epstein favors or protection, or may have been part of the exploitation. When I hear of new complaints by Maxwell I get the feeling they are directed to those yet unindicted co-conspirators for relief or favors owed.

My thinking runs that there is a large network which fed Epstein and serviced his secrets along with his finances. It is likely that much of it still operates to the benefit of those who haven't been caught yet, and who may have access to some portion of his remaining finances.

[csziggy]

20. The timing is suspect, considering that Trump's con game is pretty much up

And Epstein introduced Trump to Melania.

I would not be at all shocked if there was a large, Republican-supported pedophile and human trafficking ring that used Epstein to acquire victims among other means. Ever Republican claim about others is a projection of what they do, in my experience, though they might exaggerate as they embellish their projections.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. A lawyer signed off on a habeas corpus shell game?

Or that's what it sounds like to me

[Wawannabe]

12. Too bad her ex was a coward!

OR

Too bad NY let him get murdered.....

Either way

When you have a relationship with a a pedophile...And when you hawk young women and girls.... You should be held accountable. Stupid woman!

[2Gingersnaps]

13. Yeah, "English aristocrats" sometimes need a gravy train...

not many of them are willing to promise barely teens modeling careers to feed them to monsters to enjoy the good life. Jail does suck. That is why it is a good idea not to be a criminal. And the worst possible kind of criminal, well..........that will free up one cell from a pot smoker.

[localroger]

14. They weren't gonna let Ghislaine go just because they got Epstein

The case they were building was that Maxwell procured girls for Epstein and participated enthusiastically in Epstein's sexual encounters with them. They arrested Epstein first because he was the primary target and they had enough evidence up front, but once they got around to building the detailed case they would have come for Maxwell too.

[Bengus81]

15. Guess she figures she needs to get in a little "Press" every two weeks or so.....

[Bengus81]

16. ROFLOL...they weren't looking for her BEFORE Epstien "killed" himself?? Right.....

[TeamProg]

17. Are her lawyers Rudy proteges?

Knowing it won't work, they'll keep Ms Maxwell thinking that they're working really hard for the $$$$.