A federal judge on Monday dropped the bail package proposed by Ghislaine Maxwell for $ 28.5 million, saying she still believes defendant Ms. Jeffrey Epstein is at risk of theft.
While the full order of U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan was presented under seal, she published a two-page summary describing the reasons why she rejected the second offer of confinement to the British Socialist.
“The court concludes that none of the new information the defendant presented in support of her application has a material influence in the court’s determination that there is a risk of absconding,” wrote Nathan, who said in making his decision, he considered the nature of the crime, the weight of the evidence and Maxwell’s background.
Shortly after Maxwell’s arrest in July, the same judge refused to release her in jail on $ 5 million bail.
In a desperate attempt to get her out of the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, Maxwell’s attorneys presented the massive bail package, which she said represented all the assets she and her husband, technology CEO Scott Borgerson, had. .
Maxwell, the daughter of dishonored middle Robert Maxwell, has repeatedly complained about the unbearable conditions of the closure.
She is accused of recruiting and fixing three girls for being sexually abused by her and Epstein in the 1990s and then lying about it.
Maxwell has denied the allegations.