The Justice Department on Monday urged the Supreme Court to reject Ghislaine Maxwell’s high-profile appeal, arguing that the convicted sex trafficker is not shielded by a decades-old plea deal between federal prosecutors in Florida and Jeffrey Epstein.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a brief opposing Maxwell’s petition, which claims the government violated a nonprosecution agreement that promised not to charge Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators in 2007. Maxwell’s legal team says language should have prevented her 2021 trial and conviction in New York for facilitating Epstein’s sexual abuse of minors.
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