Federal prosecutors said Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite accused of facilitating late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls, is isolated of other residents in the Brooklyn prison, where she is being held for security reasons.
“Here, for reasons including safety, security, and the proper functioning of the facility, [Bureau of Prisons] has made the provision that at present the suspect must not be fully integrated into the slaughterhouse style accommodation of the general population, ‘read the prosecutors’ Thursday letter to U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan.
In an earlier letter on August 10, Maxwell’s lawyers denied that she was under surveillance and subjected to several body scans at the Metropolitan Detention Center, despite being taken off by suicide guards, and asked that she be placed in the general prison population. be immersed.
Prosecutors also gave Maxwell 13 hours a day to check materials for her case scheduled for July of 2021, as opposed to 3 hours.
Maxwell pleaded not guilty to assisting Epstein in recruiting and eventually abusing three girls and occasionally participating in the 1994-1997 abuse and pleading guilty plea to investigators in Epstein’s case.
In Thursday’s letter, prosecutors said Maxwell’s lawyer asked the court to identify three suspected victims named in Maxwell’s indictment, who prosecutors called “at least premature, given that the production of discovery, on the scheme agreed to by the suspect has just begun. “
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