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Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 207 Filed 04/16/21 Page 1 of 34
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
United States of America,
—v—
Ghislaine Maxwell,
Defendant.
USDC SDNY
DOCUMENT
ELECTRONICALLY FILED
DOC N:
DATE FILED: 4/16/21
20-cr-330 (AJN)
OPINION & ORDER
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 SI 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 Si 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 S 1 superseding indictment and do not resolve any issues
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related to the newly added sex trafficking charges. For the reasons that follow, the Court denies
Maxwell's motions to dismiss the SI 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.
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