| Ghislaine Maxwell Is Denied
Reconsideration Now Appeals Release of
Documents Ordered Unsealed
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 29 – After the
death of Jeffrey Epstein in
the MCC prison, Virginia
Giuffre, Annie Farmer and
others are pursuing civil
litigation for sex trafficking
against his "madame" Ghislaine
Maxwell and his estate.
On
July 23 SDNY Judge Loretta
Preska read out ruling
unsealing many documents,
while Maxwell's lawyer asked
for a stay to appeal, citing
Maxwell's imprisonment and
July 2021 trial. Inner City
Press live tweeted it, below.
Now on
July 29, Maxwell tried a
request for reconsideration.
Judge Preska denied it, but
gave two business days to for
Maxwell to appeal. Then a
notice of appeal to the Second
Circuit. Photos here.
From July 23:
Judge Preska: "Ms
Maxwell refused to testify as
to any consensual adult
activity." Ms Maxwell as
relied on little but ipse
dixit [it is said] - there is
a presumption of public access
to these motions. Those papers
shall be unsealed
Judge
Preska: Personal identifying
information, and names of
non-parties other than Doe 1
and Doe 2, will be redacted...
Docket 142-2, unseal. Same
thing for 144-5, 144-6 and
144-7.
Judge
Preska: Unseal docket 150
[Declaration of Jeffrey S.
Pagliuca - this was filed,
under seal, on May 10,
2016. [Inner City Press
note: UN official Amir Dossal,
SG @AntonioGuterres '
head of "Partnerships," was
with Maxwell's Terrarmar up to
2018 filings...
Judge Preska:
185-11, excerpts of Giuffre
declaration... 185-13, Giuffre
affidavit, unseal in full...
Billionaire's Club draft -
unseal... Some others:
withholding pending notice to
that Doe
Judge
Preska: 260-1... Will, if this
only the authorization? "Will"
- that first two pages. Judge
Preska: Medical records to
remain sealed... I will
ask you to confer and prepare
the documents, posting them
within a week. Maxwell lawyer:
We want a stay to appeal
Maxwell
lawyer: We want a two week
stay. Giuffre's lawyer: We
want it released right away.
Maxwell lawyer: There's been a
chance - Ms. Maxwell as been
indicted and awaits trial in
another courtroom in the SDNY
in July 2021. We are concerned
about a fair trial
Judge Preska:
I'll give you a week to
prepare the motion. I'll still
ask you to prepare to make the
documents public. If the 2d
Circuit does not take up or
grant your motion in a week,
let me know. But prepare to
unseal.
On
July 2 Acting US Attorney
Audrey Strauss has announced
and unsealed in indictment of
Maxwell on charges including
sex trafficking and perjury.
(As in the Schulte CIA leaks
case, it is not yet clear
where the grand jury sat,
White Plains or Manhattan with
virtual jurors). Many hope
that the sex trafficking
prosecutions will move on to
the UN, where Maxwell held a
ghoulish press conference, and
where Antonio Guterres is now
covering up both UN sexual
exploitation by peacekeepers
the UN moves in and out of
countries with impunity, scoop
video here,
and sexual abuse right inside
UN headquarters, exclusive
audio here.
Watch this site.
On June
10, Maxwell filed that
"Defendant Ghislaine Maxwell,
through her counsel and
pursuant to this Court’s Order
and Protocol for Unsealing
Decided Motions, DE 1044, as
clarified by DE 1053, objects
to the unsealing of the Sealed
Items contained in: • DE 143
(and related DEs 142, 144,
144-1, 149, 150, 150-1, 151,
152, 153, and 153- 1); • DE
172 (and related DEs 171, 173,
173-1, 189, 190, 190-1, 202,
203, 204-1, 211, 212, 212-1,
and 224) and; • DE 199 (and
related DEs 200, 200-1, 228,2
29, 229-1, 284, 249, and
249-1)." Photo here.
It is
reminiscent of UN Sec-Gen
Antonio Guterres covering
up UN child rapes -
except the UN's rapes are in
DR Congo, CAR and Haiti. And
now, this
in Tel Aviv, another Inner
City Press scoop on which
Guterres refuses to answer.
And on July 1,
this order: "MEMORANDUM &
ORDER re: (133 in
1:19-cv-03377-LAP) FIRST
LETTER MOTION for Local Rule
37.2 Conference addressed to
Judge Loretta A. Preska from
Howard M. Cooper, Esq. dated
June 12, 2020, filed by Alan
Dershowitz. For the reasons
discussed above: (1) Cooper
& Kirk shall destroy (a)
all materials from Giuffre v.
Maxwell, No. 15 Civ. 7433,
currently in its possession,
save for the transcript of Ms.
Giuffre's deposition in that
case and (b) all work product
derived from the Maxwell
materials. Cooper & Kirk
shall submit to the Court an
affidavit detailing the steps
that it took to destroy the
materials. In addition, to the
extent it is doing so, Cooper
& Kirk shall cease all use
of the Maxwell
materials--outside of Ms.
Giuffre's deposition
transcript--in its work on Ms.
Giuffre's action against Mr.
Dershowitz. (2) Mr.
Dershowitz's request to modify
the Maxwell Protective Order
[dkt. no. 133 in 19 Civ. 3377]
is denied. SO ORDERED. (Signed
by Judge Loretta A. Preska on
7/1/2020)."
Judge Schofield said she does
not see lumping in the
complaint, and that does not
think that the motion or
motions Ghislaine Maxwell was
suggesting she would make
would be worth the
time.
Maxwell's lawyer
Laura Menninger of Denver's
Haddon, Morgan and Foreman,
P.C. was urged to submitted a
letter or answer in a week's
time. Menninger
pushed forward, saying that
given the case's link to New
Mexico and that Farmer is not
a resident of New York, the
shorter of the statute of
limitation might apply.
Judge
Schofield repeated that the
defendants, also for executors
of Epstein's estate Darren K.
Indyke and Richard D. Khan,
should file in a week's time.
Inner City Press will continue
to follow and report on this
case. It is Farmer v. Indyke,
et al, 19-cv-10475
(Schofield).
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