SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 29 – Ghislaine
Maxwell,
charged with
sex
trafficking
and other
charges, is nearing
the end of
trial that
started on
November 29,
after the
November 23
final-final
pre trial conference,
vlog here.
On
December 28,
the fourth day
of jury
deliberations,
Judge Alison
J. Nathan
cited the
spread of
Omicron's
impact on the
trial
going forward.
Inner City
Press minutes
later renewed its
request for a
public call-in
line to the
proceedings, as
it provided in
DDC, EDNY and
by other judges in
SDNY,
including in
criminal
proceedings, see
Inner City
Press letter here,
and see below.
During
a lull on
December 29,
Inner City
Press began
asking about
long time
Maxwell family
fixer
Leah Saffian,
a lawyer
(in California and
the UK, but
not in New
York). She is
said to have
staged the
photo of Maxwell
at the
In-N-Out
burger, and
more.
Inner
City Press asked:
how is it that
Saffian, with a
cell phone,
moved from the
front row of
the gallery in
Courtroom 318
into
the well and
to the defense,
to sit with
Maxwell,
showing the
incarcerated
defendant her
smart phone?
As to the
last, Inner
City Press has
been reliable
informed it is
impermissible.
And yet...
Others
proffered that
while Saffian
is not listed
in the docket,
has not filed
a notice of
appearance in
the case (though she is
mentioned in
one of Bobbi Sternheim's
letter as
having visited
Maxwell in the
MDC in April
2021), she may
have
some status in
the SDNY.
First it was
said, if she
is a New York
State lawyer,
it
could explain
the phone in
the courtroom,
with
Maxwell.
But Safian is
not listed in the
data base of
NYS lawyers.
Then it
was said that
she could be
admitted to
SDNY without
being a New
York State
lawyer. But it
appears that
to apply, other
than pro hac
vice which would
show up in a
case docket
(Saffian is
nowhere in
SDNY PACER dockets),
a lawyer has
to be admitted
in New York OR
in Vermont or
Connecticut,
both part of
the Second
Circuit Court
of Appeals
which Judge Nathan
seeks to join.
But
Saffian is
not listed in
either
state's
database of
lawyers.
So is there
some separate
order in this
Maxwell case
allowing
Saffian to
bring in - and
share - her
phone? If so,
it has
not been
docketed. Nor
have the
jury notes, nor
the names of
passengers on
Epstein's planes
including the
so
called Lolita
Express. We'll
have
more on this.
Inner
City Press filed
a letter for docketing
and ruling on:
"Dear Judge
Nathan:
On behalf of
Inner City
Press and in
my personal
capacity, I
have been
covering the
above-captioned
case, and have
repeatedly
asked that a
public call-in
line be
provided, in
light of
COVID-19
restrictions
and
spread.
Now this
morning the
Court has
taken note of
the rapid
spread of
Omicron. This
is the time to
belatedly
provide the
public call-in
line, for jury
notes,
counsel's
argument, and
the reading of
the verdict,
if and when it
happens.
Yesterday
Inner City
Press was
informed that
a person who
has been
attending the
trial in the
overflow
courtroom(s)
and reporting
to a wider
audience was
not allowed
into the
courthouse,
with COVID /
Omicron and
social
distancing
being cited as
the reason
(according to
the
individual).
While Inner
City Press
continues to
inquire into
this seeking
to confirm or
disprove it,
it highlights
the need for a
public call-in
line, to
ensure a
public
trial.
Also on
transparency,
while again
requesting the
unsealing /
unredaction in
the flight
logs of all
but victims' /
survivors'
names (there
is a flight in
the Rodgers
log from
Wilmington,
Delaware to
New Jersey,
involving
non-victims,
in which Inner
City Press is
particularly
interested),
this is also a
request that
all court
exhibits,
including jury
notes, by
docketed on
PACER on the
same-day basis
the US
Attorney's
Office was
supposed to
operated on
USAfx (but at
times did
not).
While
appreciating
that the Court
docketed
before denying
Inner City
Press'
November 12
request for a
call-in line,
Dkt. 451,
since then
travel
restrictions
to New York
have been
imposed on
entire
countries,
including some
visited by
Jeffrey
Epstein's
plane, with
defendant
Maxwell
aboard, in
their tour of
Africa with
former
President
Clinton and
others.
Restrictions
and cases are
growing in New
York, but
still no
call-in line.
By contrast,
on December 17
Judge Richard
J. Sullivan
provided a
call-in line
for an
in-person
criminal
proceeding.
And yesterday
EDNY had a
criminal
proceeding
with a call-in
line" -- see
here.
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.
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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