SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec
24 -- It was Christmas Eve and the number of
people in prison, in the United States and
around the world, was numberless. But in
Kurt's world there was nearly unitary focus
on one prison, in pre-trial detention for
nearly a year and a half now: Ghislaine
Maxwell.
Kurt
had once been a volunteer and reporter at
the Catholic Worker, but it he didn't
practice religion day to day. But he went to
midnight mass, not in Chinatown but up the
United Nations. And the priest, after a
pitch for money and a vague denunciation of
government intrusion, did mention the works
of mercy including the visiting of
prisoners.
Not
only Ghislaine's listed lawyer but also, at
least in April, Leah Saffian had visited
Ghislaine in the Metropolitan Detention
Center. Now British TV journalists camped
out in front of the prison, one of them
reporting inaccurately that if she were
convicted, Ghislaine could spend the rest of
her life in the MDC.
No
one, of course, knew how long Ghislaine's
sentence would be, or if Judge Nathan would
be the one to impose it. But it would
definitely not be served in Brooklyn.
Maybe in Connecticut, where Martha
Stewart had been, or down in West Virginia,
with the sad opiate army. If that happened,
the focus on her would pass, expect perhaps
on Christmas, her birthday. Or she might,
another reporter quipped macabrely, "pull an
Epstein."
Kurt
remembered getting the next of Epstein's
death, the tabloid photo of the gurney at
the nearby hospital, then the indictment of
the MCC corrections officers. On an upper
floor of 500 Pearl Street, the guards of
color was waited on one side of the
elevators, the journalist on the other.
Tova Noel, who had to give up
her gun, and the other guard were being
scapegoated, their supporters and lawyers
said - not only unlike what Ghislaine and
her family were saying now.
Someone
had filmed the family in a law office, with
its anachronistic walls of books, sister
crying, brother staring into a computer. Was
it staged like Leah's In-N-Out Burger shot?
Who was it directed at?
One
reader thanked him, during midnight mass no
less, that she had printed and framed the
document - maybe hyperbole. And framed was
another word Ghislaine and her family were
using, also hyperbolic.
It would all be known soon, when the
jury returned and re-started, maybe ended,
its deliberations. #MaximumMaxwell.
And so it
continued. Click
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(2d).
Note:
On October 29,
2021 and again on November 12
Ghislaine
Maxwell and
the US
Attorney's
Office for the
Southern
District of
New York filed
a flurry of
motions in
limine,
heavily
redacted; the
Government
argued that
trial exhibits
are not public
and will be
withheld.
Inner City
Press opposed
and opposes
the continued
secrecy.
Inner City Press
will cover the trial, and all
the comes before and after it;
#CourtCaseCast and song I,
Song
2, Song
3, fifth song
and now Nov
27 song
The underlying
case is US v. Maxwell,
20-cr-330 (Nathan).
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