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MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 05:17 PM Jul 2020

Ex-British Military Were Guarding Ghislaine Maxwell's Home



SDNY Prosecutors Identify ‘Glaring Red Flags,’ Say Ex-British Military Were Guarding Ghislaine Maxwell’s Home

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More troubling still, the defendant’s conduct at the time of her arrest further underscores the risk of flight she poses. When FBI agents arrived at the defendant’s remote property in New Hampshire on the morning of July 2, 2020, they discovered the property was barred by a locked gate. After breaching the gate, the agents observed an individual who was later determined to be a private security guard. As the agents approached the front door to the main house, they announced themselves as FBI agents and directed the defendant to open the door. Through a window, the agents saw the defendant ignore the direction to open the door and, instead, try to flee to another room in the house, quickly shutting a door behind her. Agents were ultimately forced to breach the door in order to enter the house to arrest the defendant, who was found in an interior room in the house. Moreover, as the agents conducted a security sweep of the house, they also noticed a cell phone wrapped in tin foil on top of a desk, a seemingly misguided effort to evade detection, not by the press or public, which of course would have no ability to trace her phone or intercept her communications, but by law enforcement.

Prosecutors further said that a security guard at Maxwell’s New Hampshire residence, who was there when the FBI breached the gate, told agents that Maxwell’s brother hired former British military members to guard the property. According to the security guard, Maxwell never left the remote New Hampshire property “during his time working there”:

Following the defendant’s arrest, the FBI spoke with the security guard, who informed the agents that the defendant’s brother had hired a security company staffed with former members of the British military to guard the defendant at the New Hampshire property, in rotations. The defendant provided one of the guards with a credit card in the same name as the LLC that had purchased the New Hampshire property in cash. The guard informed the FBI that the defendant had not left the property during his time working there, and that instead, the guard was sent to make purchases for the property using the credit card. As these facts make plain, there should be no question that the defendant is skilled at living in hiding.
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Ex-British Military Were Guarding Ghislaine Maxwell's Home (Original Post) MelissaB Jul 2020 OP
I read months ago that she was living in New Hampshire. I guess she was hiding in plain site. CentralMass Jul 2020 #1
Exactly, they knew where she was soothsayer Jul 2020 #2
Nothing says "I'm seriously INNOCENT" like having pro mercs guarding you while you go hide Leghorn21 Jul 2020 #3
What was in New Hampshire? hunter Jul 2020 #4
A degree of anonymity, plus is very close to the Canadian border FakeNoose Jul 2020 #5
She is a multi-millionaire Celerity Jul 2020 #6

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
2. Exactly, they knew where she was
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 05:31 PM
Jul 2020

Some note they waited until Berman got moved out of SDNY (where he was handling an Epstein case involving public figures, such as Prince Andrew) to arrest her.

I dunno.

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
3. Nothing says "I'm seriously INNOCENT" like having pro mercs guarding you while you go hide
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 05:33 PM
Jul 2020

in your closet!!

Yeah, hey Maxwell, you need to tell all your alleged victims exactly what you think of their charges, just have a little chitchat with these women and clear the air and then you can go about your sad little life in peace, you sorry scumbucket

hunter

(38,312 posts)
4. What was in New Hampshire?
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 05:36 PM
Jul 2020

If it wasn't family, pets, or garden then she's clearly an idiot of the Vizzini sort.




FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)
5. A degree of anonymity, plus is very close to the Canadian border
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 10:21 AM
Jul 2020

I don't think Ghislaine Maxwell is all that wealthy. When her father Robert Maxwell died he owed a lot of money to some bad people. Most of the Maxwell family's wealth was confiscated to pay off the father's debts, as I have read over the years. Ghislaine was barely in her 20s when that happened, and she began working in New York as a salaried real estate agent for years when she ran into Epstein. I believe she eventually worked for him, either in partnership or more likely a generous salary. Any secret cash this woman has stashed away is from blackmailing the very wealthy, which was was Jeffrey's stock in trade.

I'm thinking her purchase of this mansion in New Hampshire might have been a payoff of some kind. Perhaps a wealthy "client" of hers tried to protect her by making the property available to her. Jeffery Epstein did the same thing, that's how he acquired the 5th Avenue mansion, and maybe other properties too.


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