A federal judge on Monday shot down Ghislaine Maxwell’s proposed $ 28.5 million bail package, saying she still believes the accused Jeffrey Epstein lady is a flight risk.
While US District Judge Alison Nathan’s full order was filed under seal, she released a two-page summary detailing her reasons for rejecting the British socialite’s second bid for confinement in the house.
“The court concludes that none of the new information submitted by the defendant in support of her application is of material significance to the court’s determination that she poses a flight risk,” wrote Nathan, who said that she was making her decision. took into account the nature of the crime, the weight of the evidence and Maxwell’s background.
Shortly after the Maxwell’s arrest in July, the same judge refused to release her to $ 5 million in jail, calling her financial statements restrained and expressing concern about her possession of a British and French passport.
In a desperate bid to get her out of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, Maxwell’s lawyers filed the massive bail package – which she says represents all the assets she and her husband, technical CEO Scott Borgerson, own.
Maxwell, the daughter of disgraced media titan Robert Maxwell, has repeatedly complained about the excruciating conditions in the lock-up.
She is accused of recruiting and caring for three girls to be sexually assaulted by her and Epstein in the 1990s and then lie about it.
Maxwell has denied the allegations.