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The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not take up a bid by Ghislaine Maxwell to overturn her 2021 conviction and 20-year prison sentence for her role in a scheme to sexually exploit and abuse minor girls with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell’s appeal to the high court attracted added attention this summer as the Trump administration came under pressure to release more material related to the Justice Department’s investigation into Epstein, who died in federal custody in 2019. Congress also opened its own examination of the federal probe and has obtained and released thousands of pages of records related to Epstein, though many were already in the public domain.
Senior Justice Department officials unsuccessfully petitioned a federal court in New York to unseal grand jury material in Epstein’s case, and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Maxwell in Tallahassee, Florida, in July to discuss her relationship with Epstein and the allegations against her.
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