207.pdf

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Source set: house-oversight-doj
Pages: 34
Text status: Searchable text available
OCR confidence: 0.9408873283534779

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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 207 Filed 04/16/21 Page1of 34 USDC SDNY DOCUMENT UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ae SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK beef dep United States of America, _y_ 20-cr-330 (AJN) Ghislaine Maxwell, OPINION & ORDER Defendant. ALISON J. NATHAN, District Judge: In June 2020, a grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging Ghislaine Maxwell with facilitating the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of minor victims from around 1994 to 1997. The Government filed a first (S1) superseding indictment shortly thereafter, which contained only small, ministerial corrections. The S1 superseding indictment included two counts of enticement or transportation of minors to engage in illegal sex acts in violation of the Mann Act and two counts of conspiracy to commit those offenses. It also included two counts of perjury in connection with Maxwell’s testimony in a civil deposition. Trial is set to begin on July 12, 2021. Maxwell filed twelve pretrial motions seeking to dismiss portions of the S1 superseding indictment, suppress evidence, and compel discovery. After the parties fully briefed those motions, a grand jury returned a second (S2) superseding indictment adding a sex trafficking count and another related conspiracy count. This Opinion resolves all of Maxwell’s currently pending pretrial motions other than those seeking to suppress evidence, which the Court will resolve in due course. The motions, and this Opinion, deal exclusively with the S1 superseding indictment and do not resolve any issues DOJ-OGR-00003675

Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 207 Filed 04/16/21 Page 2 of 34 related to the newly added sex trafficking charges. For the reasons that follow, the Court denies Maxwell’s motions to dismiss the S1 superseding indictment in whole or in part. It grants her motion to sever the perjury charges for a separate trial. It denies her motion to further expedite discovery. The Court provides a brief summary of its conclusions here and …

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