Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, center, speaks as William Sweeney, assistant director-in-charge of the New York Office’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), second right, listens during a news conference at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York, U.S., on Thursday, July 2, 2020. Photo: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has upheld Ghislaine Maxwell’s convictions, ruling Sept. 17 that a non-prosecution agreement in Florida didn’t bar prosecution in the Southern District of New York.
Maxwell, convicted of facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of women and girls between 1994 and 2004, was convicted of three sex trafficking charges in June 2022 in the New York federal court. She was sentenced to three concurrent prison terms, the longest of which is 20 years, and fined a total of $750,000.
