After being arrested in Bradford, New Hampshire last Thursday, before the Fourth of July weekend, Ghislaine Maxwell, charged with helping Jeffrey Epstein abuse underage girls, may have her arraignment, initial appearance, and bail hearing in Manhattan, New York City on Friday afternoon, 10 July.

In a letter dated and filed in the federal court on Sunday, 5 July, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) said that Maxwell when in New Hampshire had what would have been a brief appearance before a judge.  This is required after an arrest, and is to occur “without unnecessary delay” [1].–

https://turcopolier.typepad.com/files/gmaxwell_letter_initial_appearance.pdf

VIFUUR Water Sports Un... Buy New $11.88 (as of 03:37 UTC - Details) The government asked that Maxwell be detained in custody until a trial, in a paper filed the day of the arrest.  The motion for detention contains a few items of interest.  She was born in France and is a citizen of and appears to have passports for at least France, Britain, and the U.S.  The request for detention says:  “Based on the Government’s investigation to date, the Government has identified more than 15 different bank accounts held by or associated with the defendant from 2016 to the present, and during that same period, the total balances of those accounts have ranged from a total of hundreds of thousands of dollars to more than $20 million”–

https://turcopolier.typepad.com/files/gmaxwell_motion_to_detain.pdf

The criminal indictment of Maxwell, which was unsealed the day of the arrest on 2 July, charges a curious time period of only “at least in or about 1994, up to and including at least in or about 1997”, and refers to only three victims–

https://turcopolier.typepad.com/files/gmaxwell_indictment.pdf

The very limited written criminal charge can of course be seen as an opening gambit by the prosecution, since it can be expanded in a superseding indictment.

The letter filed with the court clerk identifies Christian Everdell as the current attorney for Maxwell; he had been a federal prosecutor in the SDNY for 10 years [2].  In court documents a familiar surname appears as one of the SDNY co-prosecutors for the federal government — Maurene Comey — who was in the same role in the aborted prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein.  The legal communities in New York City and Washington D.C. are two little clubs that sometimes tend to overlap. Jack Linku2019s Beef J... Buy New $5.82 ($1.86 / Ounce) (as of 12:35 UTC - Details)

If a court hearing takes place Friday, it will probably duplicate some of what happened in New Hampshire on 2 July.  The big issue at this time is whether Ghislaine Maxwell will remain in custody or be released on bail under some specific conditions.  Her arrest was described in an article in the British Daily Mail newspaper [3].

Documents from the 2 July court proceeding in New Hampshire have now been filed in the SDNY.  Here are three of the 33 pages:  the court clerk’s docket sheet from Concord, New Hampshire, and the arrest warrant, which was authorized at the courthouse in White Plains, New York, and not in Manhattan!  The other pages that are excluded are the indictment, the order allowing a hearing by video and telephone conference, the commitment order to send Maxwell to the SDNY, and three pages that basically duplicate the clerk’s docket sheet–

https://turcopolier.typepad.com/files/gmaxwell_new_hampshire_court_docs.pdf

The case is multi-sided.  Ghislaine’s father, Robert Maxwell, was a publisher who also was caught up in financial machinations.  He died under mysterious circumstances in 1991 when he was found in the water outside of his large boat in the area of the Canary Islands.  There were rumors he had relationships with government intelligence agencies.  He was given a large funeral in Israel attended by Israeli politicians and was buried in a cemetery there.  Ghislaine’s close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is part of the factual foundation of the pending case.  Epstein had been protected from criminal liability by the U.S. government through the Department of Justice which became evident in state and federal criminal cases developed against him in Florida that resulted in a disgraceful plea deal in Florida state court and in an equally disgraceful and concealed non-prosecution agreement with the federal government.  Only through the determination of Florida attorney Bradley Edwards and Utah lawyer Paul Cassell, a former federal judge, was the perfidy of the federal government and Justice Department revealed through their lawsuit against the government under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act– Donald Trump 2020 Coll... Buy New $37.94 (as of 05:17 UTC - Details)

https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/07/alex-acosta-let-the-cat-out-of-the-bag-the-justice-department-knew-all-about-the-jeffrey-epstein-plea-deal.html

Jeffery Epstein made some court appearances in his criminal case in the SDNY before he was said to have been found dead in the Manhattan federal Metropolitan Corrections Center from an “apparent suicide”, when cameras were not working, blah blah blah.  That explanation was rightfully laughed out of town.  In terms of probability, Epstein was either murdered in the jail or was helped to escape.

And now here comes Ghislaine Maxwell.

[1]  Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 5.  Initial Appearance.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18a-node35-title2-rule5&num=0&edition=prelim

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_5

[2]  https://www.cohengresser.com/attorney/christian-r-everdell/

[3]  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8490443/FBI-agents-smashed-door-Ghislaine-Maxwells-bolthole-hauled-handcuffs.html

Originally published on Sic Semper Tyrannis.

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