| Ghislaine
Maxwell Filed Pro Se Habeas Petition Now
More Time to Redact like Epstein Files
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 7 – With Ghislaine Maxwell
in prison, she reportedly
offered to testify to Congress
about Jeffrey Epstein,
presumably for a pardon.
Then she said she
would invoke the Fifth.
Now after the
Epstein files votes on Capitol
Hill, from the SDNY Judge who
took over the Maxwell file
from Judge Nathan, this:
Order on Patreon
here.
Just past noon on
November 26 the US Attorney's
Office filed a four page
letter, on Patreon here
On December 3,
Maxwell's counsel acknowledged
the new Act but wrote "Ms. Maxwell
respectfully notes that
shortly she will be filing a
habeas petition pro se.
Releasing the grand jury
materials from her case, which
contain untested and unproven
allegations, would create
undue prejudice so severe that
it would foreclose the
possibility of a fair retrial
should Ms. Maxwell’s habeas
petition succeed.
On December 17
Ghislaine Maxwell's pro se
habeas petition was filed,
focused on Jury 50, "Scotty
David," Inner City Press
covering on X
On December 22,
Judge Engelmayer set a
schedule: "The Court has
directed the Government to
complete this process by
January 6, 2026, at which
point the Clerk of Court will
docket Maxwell's filings as
redacted. See Dkt. 824 (filed
under seal). As to the
briefing schedule on Maxwell's
motion: By March 31, 2026, the
Government shall respond to
the motion. By April 30, 2026,
Maxwell shall file any reply.
This schedule is subject to
the following caveat. On
December 19, 2025, the
Department of Justice ("DOJ")
made publicly available
various documents relating to
Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein,
pursuant to the Epstein Files
Transparency Act, Pub. L. No.
119-38, 139 Stat. 656 (2025),
while stating that it will
continue to review and release
such material. See, e.g., Dkt.
823 (DOJ letter describing its
review process). It is
possible that Maxwell may
seek, on the basis of such
documents, to amend her
Section 2255 motion. In the
event that Maxwell intends to
do so, by February 17, 2026,
she must file, on the docket
of this case, either an
amended motion or a
declaration setting a date,
not to exceed March 31, 2026,
by which she will do so."
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On January 7
Judge Engelmayer gave more
time to redact filings before
they are made public, order on
Patreon here
Inner City Press,
with its Maximum Maxwell book
restored here,
will cover all filings.
After having
asked Maxwell herself question
when she did a press
conference in the UN. After
that, Inner City Press was
banned from the UN by SG
Antonio Guterres. His
spokesman Stephane Dujarric on
July 14, 2025 refused to
answer written questions,
including:
On deadline,
explain why Ghislaine Maxwell
was granted a press conference
in the UN briefing room, and
why a UN correspondent who did
a fundraiser with Ghislaine
Maxwell - convicted of sex
trafficking here in SDNY, and
known at the time to be
manager for Jeffrey Epstein -
is allowed in daily and can
ask questions, while Inner
City Press which asked and
asks remains banned, with
6/19/25 application to MALU
pending, none of the promised
(by Dujarric) answers to
written questions like this
provided
No answers.
Inner City Press
continues reporting on the UN
(where Ghislaine Maxwell was
allowed a press conference and
SG Antonio
Guterres had a rep on
her Terramar board
(video here,
story here).
This case is USA
v. Maxwell, 1:20-cr-330
(Engelmayer)
And now Maxwell
v. USA, 1:25-cv-10468
(Engelmayer)
Watch this site.
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