Ghislaine Maxwell Tried to Hide When F.B.I. Knocked, Prosecutors Say
On the day of her arrest, Ms. Maxwell, a longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein, refused to answer the door and fled to another room, according to a new court filing.When F.B.I. agents went to arrest Ghislaine Maxwell on the morning of July 2 on a remote property in New Hampshire, they broke through her locked gate, approached the front door and announced themselves, telling her to open the door, federal prosecutors said in newly filed court papers on Monday.
Through a window, the agents saw her ignore their order and flee to another room in the house, quickly shutting the door behind her, the prosecutors wrote.
The agents forcibly entered and took Ms. Maxwell into custody. Prosecutors said that during a search of the house, investigators found a cellphone wrapped in tin foil on top of a desk — which they interpreted as “a seemingly misguided effort to evade detection” by law enforcement.
“As these facts make plain, there should be no question that the defendant is skilled at living in hiding,” the prosecutors wrote.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/nyregion/ghislaine-maxell-jeffrey-epstein-bail.html
She strikes me as not being all that bright.
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she doesn't seem much better at it than my granddaughter . . .
You are not going to doubt many people, are you?
The phone she had was a burner. It's easy to buy one and never have one's ID (or location) connected to it. It's actually done all the time, because they're not smart phones. You just buy minutes to use the phone without having a billable account.
A burner phone is good for when you need to make an anonymous call to one certain number that can never be traced. For example an accomplice, or a lawyer. Remember when Michael Cohen got arrested and the feds got all his documents, and something like 9 or 10 burner phones? Not all those burners were his, as it turned out.
I don't know what the aluminum foil was supposed to do. Maybe she thought (or somebody told her) that wrapping the phone in foil meant the feds couldn't scan it, or whatever. Chances are that this is not her only burner phone, she's got others and the feds haven't found them yet.
