Thursday, December 30, 2021
PMT: The Conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell
Yesterday, a jury in federal court in New York returned a guilty verdict on five of six counts against Ghislaine Maxwell, the associate of pedophile kingpin Jeffrey Epstein. The most serious charge was sex trafficking of a minor, and she likely will spend the rest of her life in prison.
She was a child of privilege, whose father owned a British media empire. She was born in France, grew up in a 53-room mansion in England, graduated from Oxford, and moved to New York after the death of her father. She soon met Epstein, and her social circle (and Epstein's) included Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Prince Andrew.
What she did was reprehensible. She groomed girls as young as 14 to have sexual encounters with Epstein, and sometimes participated herself.
Clearly, it was her sophistication that made her enticement of these girls possible-- according to their testimony, she was an aspirational figure, and made them feel comfortable in what should have been a very uncomfortable situation.
One of the worst, possibly corrupt prosecutions in US history was the pathetic deal given to Epstein in 2008, in which he did about 13 months of state time in Florida while a 53-count federal indictment was dismissed in a case with over 30 identified victims, without notifying the victims as required by federal law. The US Attorney who approved this was Alexander Acosta, who--perhaps not surprisingly-- followed this coup up by becoming Donald Trump's Secretary of Labor.
Maxwell is being described by some as Epstein's "helper," but she was fully involved in this. I suspect her sentence will reflect that.
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My curiosity is whether Trump was involved in sexual abuse of underage females, and whether some federal or state prosecutors are investigating.
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