Biggest news in Jeffrey Epstein probe in nearly a year as his longtime girlfriend, publishing heiress Ghislaine Maxwell, is arrested in NH on an indictment charging her with grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse by Epstein and that she sometime took part politico.com/news/2020/07/0…
FBI NY chief Sweeney called Maxwell '1 of the villains' in the investigation. Acting US Atty Strauss again called on Prince Andrew to cooperate. He's said he is, but hasn't actually spoken to investigators. POLITICO broke the Andrew allegations here in '14 politico.com/blogs/under-th…
A few notable things about the charges. All the abuse charged in the indictment took place in 1994-97, more than 20 years ago and more than a decade before Epstein's controversial 2008 plea deal nixed fed charges in Florida.
Prosecutors have freshened the indictment by adding charges from 2016 that Maxwell lied under oath in a lawsuit filed against her by Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
One odd thing about the indictment: it includes photos of Epstein's homes where the abuse took place. Also a public news photo of Epstein and Maxwell hugging, which Strauss stood in front of and pointed at largely silently as photographers snapped away whittierdailynews.com/2020/07/02/jef…
Also the indictment gives the incorrect docket number for Giuffre's suit. Twice. Just odd given the amount of time prosecutors, FBI and others have been chasing this. And the fact that number would be all over the deposition transcripts the indictment quotes.
Maxwell is set to appear before a US magistrate judge in Concord, NH in a video hearing at 3:30 PM today. Sweeney described as "gorgeous" the property Maxwell was arrested at early this morning.
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