As Ghislaine Maxwell Gets Representation, Prosecutors Request Friday Bail Hearing in Manhattan
Maxwell's attorneys are Cohen & Gresser partners Mark Cohen and Christian Everdell, according to court filings.
July 06, 2020 at 04:07 PM
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In a letter July 5 to U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan of the Southern District of New York, prosecutors asked that Ghislaine Maxwell's arraignment, initial appearance, and bail hearing be scheduled for Friday afternoon in Manhattan.
Maxwell, the longtime confidante of Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested July 2 in New Hampshire and charged with helping the deceased financier run a sex trafficking ring involving girls as young as 14.
If Nathan approves the proposed timeline, Maxwell's defense team will submit her bail application Thursday afternoon and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York will file a reply Friday, the prosecutors wrote.
Prosecutors have already filed a 10-page detention memo urging the court to detain Maxwell before trial, explaining that she has three passports, significant financial resources and access to connections abroad that make her an "extreme" risk to flee the United States.
Maxwell's attorneys are Cohen & Gresser partners Mark Cohen and Christian Everdell, according to court filings. They did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday.
Cohen is the co-founder of the firm and a former prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. He has experience in white-collar defense, as does Everdell, a former prosecutor in the Southern District of New York.
After being transferred from New Hampshire, Maxwell was in federal custody Monday at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, across the East River from the courthouse where she is expected to stand trial.
Epstein died by suicide at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center in August. The Bureau of Prisons declined Monday to answer further questions about Maxwell's housing arrangements.
Epstein, 66, was awaiting trial in the Southern District of New York on charges that he trafficked underage girls out of his homes in Manhattan and Palm Beach. Maxwell, a onetime British socialite, is accused of helping him across continents.
She is charged with two counts of conspiracy, enticement of a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, transporting minors for illegal sex acts and two counts of perjury.
The perjury allegations relate to a 2016 deposition for a civil lawsuit in Manhattan federal court. According to the indictment, Maxwell denied having any knowledge of, or involvement in, Epstein's abuses.
"Maxwell lied because the truth, as alleged, was almost unspeakable," acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss of the Southern District of New York said at a press conference July 2. "Maxwell enticed minor girls, got them to trust her and then delivered them into the trap that she and Epstein had set for them. She pretended to be a woman they could trust, all the while she was setting them up to be sexually abused by Epstein and, in some cases, by Maxwell herself."
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