Ghislaine Maxwell is pushing back against the Justice Department’s attempt to unseal grand jury testimony related to her case, calling it a threat to her legal rights.
“Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Ghislaine Maxwell is not,” her attorney wrote in a court filing Tuesday, arguing that public interest doesn’t justify breaching grand jury secrecy while her appeal is still active.
Maxwell, serving 20 years for sex trafficking, says she was unfairly scapegoated after Epstein’s death and should’ve been protected under his 2007 non-prosecution deal. The Supreme Court may take up her appeal in September.
The DOJ recently admitted the grand jury heard testimony from only two law enforcement officers… not from any alleged victims. Maxwell’s legal team also claims she hasn’t been allowed to review those transcripts, despite the government now wanting to make them public.
“When Epstein died, prosecutors pivoted and made Maxwell the symbol of his crimes,” Markus wrote. “She was convicted in a whirlwind of misleading media coverage and misrepresented evidence. Now, the government wants to make public grand jury transcripts full of untested, hearsay statements that were never scrutinized in court.”
Meanwhile, a source told ABC News that Maxwell did not implicate Donald Trump during her DOJ interview, and a recording of that conversation exists.
