Judge rules that feds must reveal names of Ghislaine Maxwell’s alleged co-conspirators!
NEW YORK (PNN) - September 4, 2021 - A federal judge wielded a silver hammer for Ghislaine Maxwell yesterday when she ordered Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) attorneys to disclose the identity of all co-conspirators in their case against Jeffrey Epstein’s gal pal.
The British socialite, held without bail since her arrest last July, is accused of providing underage girls to billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who was supposedly found dead in his New York cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking. Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Alison J. Nathan, appointed in 2011 by illegitimate President Barack Obama as a judge to the FPSA District Court for the Southern District of New York, said prosecutors should have objected sooner if they didn’t want to disclose co-conspirator identities to Maxwell.
In an August 13, 2021 opinion, Nathan noted prosecutors hadn’t objected to the defendant’s two prior requests for the government to identify the two unnamed co-conspirators. On August 18, the government filed a letter stating it shouldn’t have to provide an exhaustive list of co-conspirators.
Alison Moe, the lead Assistant SDNY FPSA Attorney prosecuting the case against Maxwell cried foul, claiming that divulging co-conspirator identities before the trial unfairly locked in their trial strategy while giving the defense a boost with a sneak peak at their case.
“Ordering the government to provide a bill of particulars containing an exhaustive list of the defendant’s uncharged co-conspirators would require the government to commit to a particular view of those co-conspirators and provide that preview of the government’s case to the defense seven weeks before trial,” Moe wrote in a pleading submitted to Nathan, adding, “A defendant is not entitled to a bill of particulars setting forth the ‘whens,’ ‘wheres,’ and ‘with whoms’ regarding a conspiracy.”
The judge wasn’t picking up what the prosecutor was laying down, though.
In an order filed yesterday, Judge Nathan gave a proverbial thumbs down on the government’s request to conceal the co-conspirator identities, saying they had to do it and do it fast.
“The court concludes the government’s objection comes too late as the government had multiple opportunities to raise its objection before this Court issued its opinion,” Nathan ordered, adding the government must disclose to the defendant, no later than October 11, the identities of all unnamed co-conspirators to whom it will refer at trial.” The Obama appointee cited the 2000 SDNY case of U.S. vs. Bin Laden to support her reasoning.