Trump DOJ Fights Epstein Accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell’s SCOTUS Appeal
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has urged the Supreme Court to reject an appeal by Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who is seeking to overturn her 2021 conviction by invoking Epstein’s controversial 2008 non-prosecution agreement (NPA).
Maxwell’s legal team is arguing that the Florida NPA, which allowed Epstein to avoid federal charges in exchange for a state plea deal, also shielded co-conspirators. But the Justice Department contends she was never named, involved, or even known to prosecutors when the deal was made.
“There is no evidence that the parties to the NPA intended for the co-conspirators clause to benefit her,” DOJ lawyers wrote, according to ABC News. “The government was not even aware of [Maxwell’s] role in Epstein’s scheme at that time.”
Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years after being found guilty of recruiting and grooming underage girls for Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. Her Supreme Court appeal hinges on the clause in Epstein’s deal that promised immunity to unnamed “potential co-conspirators,” which her lawyers say includes her.
“Despite the existence of a non-prosecution agreement promising in plain language that the United States would not prosecute any co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein,” Maxwell’s team argued, “the United States in fact prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell.”
In a statement on Monday, Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, namedropped Trump, suggesting the president may be unaware of what his own DOJ is doing: “I’d be surprised if President Trump knew his lawyers were asking the Supreme Court to let the government break a deal. He’s the ultimate dealmaker – and I’m sure he’d agree that when the United States gives its word, it should keep it. With all the talk about who’s being prosecuted and who isn’t, it’s especially unfair that Ghislaine Maxwell remains in prison based on a promise the government made and broke.”
Meanwhile, tension continues to swirl around Epstein’s client list and death, following the publication of a DOJ memo dismissing murder claims and the idea he was blackmailing elites, rumors the Trump administration has tried to stamp out.
Victims’ attorney Sigrid McCawley dismissed Maxwell’s latest legal maneuver as an attempt to “escape accountability,” telling the network she “should remain in prison for the horrific crimes she committed.”
