SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 27 – Ghislaine Maxwell,
charged with sex trafficking
and false statements in a
second superseding indictment,
has requested an in-person
arraignment citing previous
press coverage and
debacles(s).
Inner City
Press on April 2 requested
audio and video access for the
arraignment on April 23. Inner
City Press live tweeted it here
and below.
On August 27,
when the SDNY confirmed its
fourth quarter schedule, the
November 29 trial date was
nailed down: "ORDER as
to Ghislaine Maxwell. The
Clerk's Office has now
confirmed that a jury trial in
this case has been scheduled
to commence on November 29,
2021. This is a firm trial
date."
Now Judge
Alison J. Nathan has set a
schedule for (final?) sealing
motions: "reply briefs, if
any, are due by October 27,
2021. The parties are
ORDERED to file on the public
docket all briefing with both
parties’ proposed redactions,
and a joint letter justifying
any requested redactions by
reference to the three-part
test articulated by the Second
Circuit in Lugosch v. Pyramid
Co. of Onondaga, 435 F.3d 110
(2d Cir. 2006), on or before
October 29, 2021."
At midnight on
October 26, Maxwell's lawyer
Bobbi C. Sternheim filed: "the defense does
object to the government’s
position that the parties
should not receive the names
of the prospective jurors
until the first day of oral
voir dire on November 16,
2021. (Dkt. 371). The Court
should deny this request."
On October
27 Judge Nathan denied
Maxwell's request: "ORDER as
to Ghislaine Maxwell. The
Court is receipt of the
parties' letters regarding the
jury questionnaire and voir
dire. See Dkt. Nos. 372, 373,
375. The Court will provide
counsel the corresponding list
of juror names and assigned
juror numbers on November 16
at the commencement of voir
dire. The placeholder for the
juror information sheet in the
Courts draft questionnaire
refers to the information
sheet required by the Jury
Department. See Dkt. No. 365.
The information sheet will be
removed and collected by the
Jury Department from the
packet before the parties
review of the questionnaires.
The Court is still considering
the logistics of when
peremptory strikes will be
exercised, but the Court
anticipates peremptory strikes
will be exercised on November
29. Assuming so, the swearing
in of the jury, preliminary
instructions, and opening
statements would commence
immediately following the
simultaneous (via submission
of lists) exercise of
peremptory challenges. (Signed
by Judge Alison J. Nathan on
10/27/21)."
Meanwhile,
as Inner City Press first reported,
another MDC female inmate, a
terrorism defendant from Yemen
Arwa Muthana, has complained
"that in the Metropolitan
Detention Center in Brooklyn,
to which prisoners from the
emptied out MCC have been
taken, "there have been brown
bits of dirt and debris in the
water and that she and the
other women were told to
'drink water out of the sinks
near the showers, or the sink
near the slop sink.'" Notably,
Maxwell who has talked laptop
and mail has not raised this.
Pellegrino? Inner City
Press will cover the trial,
and all the comes before and
after it; #CourtCaseCast and song
Maxwell
wanted to keep prospective
juror questioning - voir dire
- and selection even more
sealed from the public and
Press.
On October 18 the
US Attorney's Office opposed
the request, saying the the
voir dire questions should be
asked by Judge Nathan, and
that there should only be
sidebars on "sensitive
questions such as those that
relate to sexual abuse and
media exposure." Full letter
on Patreon here.
RCFP
rightly submitted opposition,
and Inner City Press and
others in SDNY joined the
opposition. And in a
conference on October 21 on
that as scheduling issues,
Judge Nathan denied the
request to seal. Inner City
Press live tweeted it
here (podcast here)
On October 22 the
draft jury questionnaire was
unsealed and Inner City Press
has immediately published it
on its DocumentCloud here,
including "Have you or a
family member ever supported,
lobbied, petitioned,
protested, or worked in
any other manner for or
against any laws, regulations,
or organizations relating to
sex trafficking, sex crimes
against minors, sex abuse or
sexual harassment?" Photo here.
After the death of Jeffrey
Epstein in the MCC prison, on
July 2 Acting US Attorney for
the SDNY Audrey Strauss
announced and unsealed in
indictment of Maxwell on
charges including sex
trafficking and perjury.
Inner City Press went to her
press conference at the US
Attorney's Office and asked,
Doesn't charging Maxwell with
perjury undercut any ability
to use testimony from her
against other, bigger
wrong-doers? Periscope here
at 23:07.
Strauss
replied that it is not
impossible to use a perjurer's
testimony. But how often does
it work?
At 3:30 pm
on July 2 Maxwell appeared in
the U.S. District Court for
the District of New Hampsire,
before Magistriate Judge Andrea
K. Johnstone.
Inner City
Press live
tweeted it
here.
(Also
live tweeted
bail denial of
July 14, here.)
In
the July 3 media coverage of
Maxwell, media all of the
world used a video and stills
from it of Maxwell speaking in
front of a blue curtain, like
here.
What they
did not mention is something
Inner City Press has been
asking the UN about, as under
UNSG Antonio Guterres with his
own sexual exploitation issues
(exclusive video
and audio)
it got roughed up and banned
from the UN: Ghislaine Maxwell
had a ghoulish United Nations
press conference, under the
banner of the "Terramar
Project," here.
On July 5,
after some crowd-sourcing,
Inner City Press reported on
another Ghislaine Maxwell use
of the United Nations,
facilitated by Italy's
Permanent Representative to
the UN, UN official Nikhil
Seth and Amir Dossal,
who also let into the UN and
in one case took money from
convicted UN briber Ng Lap
Seng, and Patrick Ho of CEFC
China Energy, also linked to
UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres.
At the
Ghislaine Maxwell UN event,
the UN Deputy Secretary
General was directly involved.
List of (some of)
the participants on Patreon here.
Inner City
Press has published a phone of
Maxwell in the UN with Dossal,
here. But the connection runs
deeper: Dossal with "25 years
of UN involvement" was on
Terrarmar's board of
directors, one of only five
directors, only three not
related to Maxwell by blood
and name.
The directors:
Ghislaine Maxwell, Christine
Malina-Maxwell, Steven Haft,
Christine Dennison and... Amir
Dossal. Inner City Press is
publishing this full 990 on
Patreon here.
Dossal has
operated through the UN Office
of Partnership, with Antonio
Guterres and his deputy Amina
J. Mohammed, here.
And the links to
the world of UN bribery,
including Antonio Guterres
through the Gulbenkian
Foundation, runs deeper. More
to follow.
Antonio Guterres
claims he has zero tolerance
for sexual exploitation, but
covers it up and even
participate in it. He should
be forced to resign - and/or
have immunity waived.
Terramar
has been dissolved, even
though Maxwell's former
fundraiser / director of
development Brian Yurasits
still lists the URL on his
(protected) Twitter profile,
also here.
But now
Inner City Press has begun to
inquire into Ghislaine
Maxwell's other United Nations
connections, starting with
this photograph of another
day's (or at least another
outfit's) presentation in the
UN, here.
While co-conspirator Antonio
Guterres has had Inner City
Press banned from any entry
into the UN for two years and
a day, this appears to be in
the UN Economic and Social
Council (ECOSOC) chamber.
We'll have more on this, and
on Epstein and the UN. Watch
this site.
The case
is US v. Maxwell, 20-cr-330
(Nathan).
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