Several weeks ago, the DOJ and FBI made a bombshell announcement that there was no Epstein client list.
As soon as that announcement was made, questions started to be asked about how his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, could be indicted if there was no list.
Now her attorneys are asking the Court to drop the charges, which are reportedly going to be reviewed by the Court in September.
After years of hearing Trump and his surrogates talk up the Epstein case, it was no shock to see how outraged everyone was when Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Cash Patel stated that there was no list.
The anticipation started when Bondi had told Fox News, "The DoJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients, will that really happen?
"It's sitting on my desk right now to review.”
Needless to say, when the FBI and DOJ memo came out saying there was no “incriminating list" of clients and "no credible evidence" of blackmail, the media and Democrats immediately started to pitch the narrative that Trump was in the files, so this was another government cover-up.
Maxwell is now working on several angles to get out of jail.
The first being that she is hoping for a pardon, but I doubt that will happen with all the stink that is rising over the lack of a client list being produced.
If Trump were to pardon Maxwell, I think we all know the conclusion that would be reached by the media and Democrats.
Her attorneys were also filing a motion with the Court to have the charges dismissed on several fronts, most notably a deal that Epstein had made with Florida prosecutors for non-prosecution of charges.
The 2007 Florida deal, the agreement, in part, stated, “The United States also agrees that it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein.”
According to Maxwell’s attorneys, that agreement should also cover her sex trafficking charges in New York, but I am not so sure the Court will see it that way.
While the Supreme Court has not yet accepted the case, it has agreed to review the motion in September, but that will be done in private.
If the Court agrees to hear the case, her attorneys can try to make that argument. However, if the Court denies the motion, Maxwell is out of options and the sentence will stand. I suspect the Court will uphold the conviction on the basis that the 2007 deal only pertained to the charges in Florida, not to mention there were instances that were well after that deal had been reached.
