Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested and is in FBI custody in NYC.
SDNY press conference:
The press conference on youtube
Southern District of New York. That’s the same district Barr attempted to meddle in last week. Just a few coincidences.
Barr replaced Jessie Liu, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, with acting U.S. Attorney Timothy Shea, who overruled career prosecutors in Michael Flynn’s and Roger Stone’s cases. U.S. Attorney Liu oversaw the Michael Flynn and Roger Stone cases and after she was replaced, the Justice Department reversed course and moved to dismiss the case against Michael Flynn. [Wash. Post, 5/7/2020] It also overruled career prosecutors by seeking a lower sentence against Roger Stone. [Wash. Post, 2/14/2020]
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have unveiled charges against Ghislaine Maxwell — alleging she recruited victims for sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Indictment: "[Ghislaine] Maxwell assisted, facilitated and contributed to Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of minor girls by, among other things, helping Epstein to recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse victims... "The victims were as young as 14."
Prosecutors included a photograph of Epstein and Maxwell in the indictment, which charges six counts including conspiracy to entice minor, transporting minors and perjury.
Between in or about 1994 and in or about 1997, MAXWELL was in an intimate relationship with Epstein and also was paid by Epstein to manage his various properties."
thanks to @CheriJacobus for this photo
Trump and Maxwell and Barr sitting in a tree
Arms Deals. Money Laundering and Blackmail
Barr & co needed Epstein legally declared dead so the cases against him could no longer move forward. They would also want Maxwell legally dead, unless she's more useful as a weapon. She's both useful and a threat to a large number of powerful men, some of whom hate each other.
The recently ousted head of SDNY, Geoffrey Berman, had been increasingly outspoken in seeking Prince Andrew's cooperation in the Epstein investigation and challenging what he characterized as misleading public statements. Most recently on 6/8.
Epstein Victims Were Threatened
A dead cat, a lawyer’s call and a five figure donation.
A coterie of intimidating lawyers. A five-figure donation to a New York Times reporter's favored nonprofit. A bullet delivering a message. Even, it is alleged, a cat's severed head in the front yard of the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair.
Such were the tools the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is said to have used to try to soften news coverage and at times stave off journalistic scrutiny altogether.
This is quite a story — and it explains why many victims who are sexually assaulted by powerful people don’t come forward via @NPR and @juliekbrown Miami Herald