Ghislaine Maxwell is first federal inmate in NYC to receive in-person visit since start of pandemic [View all]

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https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-ghislaine-maxwell-covid-attorney-visit-mdc-20200828-rwk7irveojcvtchr2ihgap3s6i-story.html

A Brooklyn federal jail rolled out the orange carpet for Ghislaine Maxwell’s defense team Friday, allowing them what sources said was the first in-person federal jail visit in the city since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the Daily News has learned.

An attorney for Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged madam and a woman strolled into Sunset Park’s Metropolitan Detention Center on Friday morning to meet with the British socialite, toting legal documents. Both wore masks.

Maxwell has been behind bars in Brooklyn for less than two months. Other inmates, who have been in lockdown since the pandemic began, have not had any in-person family or legal visits.

“I’m incredulous really that she was the first one when there are those of us who have been waiting for nearly six months to have an in-person visit with our clients,” said Susan Marcus, an lawyer with clients at MDC who could face the death penalty in their cases.

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The two members of Maxwell’s legal team, including attorney Christian Everdell, said nothing as they walked into the jail at 9 a.m. for a nearly four-hour visit.

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Special privileges for someone who could take Trump down, if she chose to do so.

Four hours sounds like an awfully long visit with her legal team. But the deal she's almost certainly making with Barr and Trump to testify against prominent Democrats while letting Trump off the hook could be very complicated.