OK - it's US v. #GhislaineMaxwell Day 9, after receiving a letter from a former police official investigating Epstein & Maxwell who got no witness subpoena or contact from @SDNYLIVE. More soon- Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below patreon.com/posts/59710515
New US witness is Tracy Chapell of FedEx.
AUSA: What is this?
Chapell: It's from Jeffrey Epstein's FedEx account.
AUSA: We want it sealed.
Judge Nathan: Granted.
Chapell: It's an invoice.
AUSA: Under seal.
Judge Nathan: Yes.
The sealed invoices are from 2002; the redacted version, on the screens, are illegible. Now cross examination.
Maxwell's lawyer: Look at [sealed] Exhibit 806.
Maxwell's lawyer: So this package was to Carolyn. But it was not from Ghislaine Maxwell, correct?
Chapell: It is not.
Maxwell's lawyer: There is no other transaction on this invoice where Ghislaine Maxwell is sending a package to someone named Carolyn, correct?
Now Maxwell's lawyer is putting forward an exhibit under "temporary seal." Temporary until when? Inner City Press is putting together a letter - watch this feed.
Maxwell's lawyer: I have no further questions for this witness.
Assistant US Attorney: We need an session with your Honor in the robing room.
Judge Nathan: An extended sidebar?
AUSA: It would need to be in the robing room.
[Inner City Press finalizing letter]
Judge Nathan re-takes the bench. No summary given of what the robing room discussion was about.
Judge Nathan: Please bring in the jury.
[Letter fast-finished and filed - watch this feed]
Judge Nathan: There is an attorney in the case who is ill and needs treatment. It is not COVID related but we are going to break for the day.
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OK - it's US v. #GhislaineMaxwell Day 10, jury finally seated, jurors being directed to binder of sealed non-public exhibits. Inner City Press is reporting innercitypress.com/sdnytrial39max… and will live tweet, thread below
Assistant US Attorney Rohrbach: The government calls William Brown of the NYS Dept of Motor Vehicles.
AUSA: Are you aware how people receive ID cards?
Brown: Yes.
AUSA: Please pick up the folder next to you, [sealed] government exhibit.
Judge Nathan: I will admit these exhibits under seal.
AUSA: Look at Defense Exhibit LD3A, it's in the front of the binder. How old in 1996 was this person, born in 1985?
Brown: 11 years old.
No cross.. Next witness.
AUSA: The government calls Annie Farmer.
OK - now in Rapp v. Kevin Spacey (for rape of 14 year-old), a proceeding in SDNY by phone, in a case which Inner City Press has been reporting on innercitypress.com/sdny17lkaplans… and will, in haitus from #MaxwellTrial which has no call-in line, live tweet, thread below
Spacey, defending himself from claim he raped Rapp, wanted get discovery into all of his past relationships.
Spacey's lawyer: He's only alleging that Mr Fowler [that is, Kevin Spacey] picked him up and dropped him. It's essentially child abuse, not sexual assault.
Rapp's lawyer: From coast to coast, from country to country, Kevin Spacey leaves a trail of young boys and men who say he touched them without their consent. He just lost an arbitration to Netflix about House of Cards.
OK - it's US v. #GhislaineMaxwell Day 8, starting late due to juror with slow MTA subway, day after US announced it will or may rest its case this week innercitypress.com/literary5maxim… Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below
Judge Nathan: We still have to wait for our juror who has substantial train issues. I'll step down off the bench.
Clerk: All rise!
Thread will continue. Or really, start, when juror arrives.
OK - Juror has arrived, 45 minutes late.
All rise!
Next witness: Janine Gill-Velez of Florida Property Management (that is, Mar-a-Lago).
OK - now in US v. #GhislaineMaxwell, her lawyer Pagliuca is cross-examining survivor Carolyn who testified Maxwell paid her $300 to have sex with Jeffrey Epstein. Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below, after midday podcast here anchor.fm/innercity-pres…
Pagliuca: Look at the notes the FBI took during your interview, about a lady with short black hair and an "unknown" accent. They didn't cut you off, correct?
Carolyn: That was a bad day for me. I was not expecting the FBI to come to my home.
Pagliuca: You knew what a British accent was, but you said "an unknown accent," right?
Carolyn: The day that you're talking about --
Pagliuca: I'd ask the Court to make her answer.
OK - it's US v. @GhislaineMaxwell Day 7, starting with lawyers' arguments about witnesses learning what's been said in court the previous day. The issue will have to be decided by Judge Nathan. Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below patreon.com/posts/59625123
Maxwell's lawyer Menninger: My request is to find out what was communication to him by Jane, before he gets on the stand in front of the jury. He was shown a document Jane was asked about.
Judge Nathan: Which one?
Menninger: The Interlochen [school] application
Assistant US Attorney: Jane told him, The defense lawyer is an expletive.
Menninger: But what else did she tell him?
Judge Nathan: He shouldn't testify until after lunch.
OK - it's US v. #GhislaineMaxwell trial Day 6, beginning with Judge Nathan ruling on the admissibility of exhibits and, Inner City Press hopes and has requested, the unsealing of court filings storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below
Now before the jury comes in, Judge Nathan is reading rulings on exhibits.
Judge Nathan: The pictures on the wall [of Epstein's massage room] risk prejudice and distracting the jury. They should be redacted. The other photos, of vibrators, the court will exclude.
Judge Nathan: I will also exclude the photos of the "creepy animals" Jane testified to. The tigers, for example, are high idiosyncratic. The school girl uniforms may be admissible, depending on the testimony.