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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSCOTUS denies Ghislaine Maxwell's release
?mcar
(46,496 posts)Jersey Devil
(10,872 posts)as long as she keeps her mouth shut.
moonscape
(5,813 posts)mucholderthandirt
(1,795 posts)Not about any of us, but about Trump and how much better it would be for him if she's gone. If she has any brains, she'd have a failsafe, that would release the files upon her death unless she dies a free woman of old age in her own bed. And heck, even then.
PortTack
(35,824 posts)moonscape
(5,813 posts)Bettie
(19,957 posts)she'll be pardoned, of course, but not right now.
They're afraid that releasing her will turn the spotlight back on the sexual predators in their own ranks.
Bettie
(19,957 posts)that makes sense.
I generally expect them to do whatever that orange thing tells them to.
Raven123
(7,983 posts)Blues Heron
(9,095 posts)RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,385 posts)sop
(19,665 posts)"On the first day of their new term, the justices declined to take up a case that would have drawn renewed attention to the sordid sexual-abuse saga after President Donald Trump's administration sought to tamp down criticism over its refusal to publicly release more investigative files from Epstein's case."
"Maxwell's lawyers contended that a non-prosecution agreement reached in 2007 by federal prosecutors in Miami and Epstein's lawyers also protected his 'potential co-conspirators' from federal charges anywhere in the country."
https://abc7.com/post/supreme-court-rejects-appeal-ghislaine-maxwell-imprisoned-former-girlfriend-jeffrey-epstein/17950093/
This turned out well for Trump. It keeps Maxwell "in prison," still hoping for a pardon. The last thing Trump wanted was Ghislaine free to make statements that would incriminate him.
off-the-clock
(340 posts)PortTack
(35,824 posts)just made up yes more so than now, and bury the files
spanone
(142,154 posts)Tellls America all they should need to know.
onenote
(46,304 posts)Grins
(9,567 posts)surfered
(14,757 posts)BattleRow
(2,729 posts)Clouds Passing
(8,228 posts)ChicagoTeamster
(1,392 posts)But if she does she'll probably wind up getting Epsteined.
Gimpyknee
(1,025 posts)Ms. Toad
(38,890 posts)They declined to even entertain her appeal.