NEW YORK — Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime confidante of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, asked a judge on Friday to grant her release from federal custody, saying her supporters would endorse a $5 million bail bond and that she would consent to monitored home confinement while awaiting trial. Reports The Washington Post
In their response to a detention memo filed by the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, Maxwell’s lawyers sought to counter federal prosecutors’ characterization of her as Epstein’s enabler and a flight risk. Attorney Mark S. Cohen wrote that she has been wrongly targeted, that attention erroneously shifted from Epstein to Maxwell after his death in federal custody. He described the pair as estranged, saying “she’d had no contact with Epstein for more than a decade.”
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