Releasing Ghislaine Maxwell's deposition also led to the unsealing of legal arguments citing it. This gives a window into Virginia Giuffre's counsel view of its significance.
Here, Sigrid McCawley accuses Maxwell of lies and evasion.
Maxwell later was charged with perjury.
Virginia Giuffre has long said that she was working at Mar-a-Lago when she first met Ghislaine Maxwell.
Her attorney asks Maxwell about that extensively, and the club's name appears 19 times in the document.
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The DOJ told a federal judge it couldn't enter SDNY because their attorney traveled from Virginia, which they claimed was added to the states with pandemic-related restrictions "yesterday."
The designation happened "over a week ago," the judge corrects in a new order.
Upshot: The DOJ made an easily fact-checked error in a one-paragraph letter to a federal judge, who quickly noticed that and dressed the department down on the public record.
Reminder: DOJ said their counsel was "denied entry to the courthouse" because he traveled from Virginia.
Here is Cuomo's Oct. 13 exec order forcing travelers from that state to observe a 14-day quarantine, which the attorney apparently did not do.
Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney says she is considering an emergency appeal of the Second Circuit's unsealing order but is having trouble reaching her jailed client.
They opposed releasing the deposition today, as attorneys for Virginia Giuffre currently plan.
Adding this development to the thread.
The judge endorsed a letter proposing to release the documents today after Maxwell's letter was filed.
Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal seeking to block the release of a deposition that prosecutors allege shows her perjuring herself hits the Second Circuit this afternoon.