Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal court to vacate her conviction and 20-year prison sentence due to “newly available evidence.”
In a petition filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Maxwell argued that “substantial new evidence has emerged from related civil actions, Government disclosures, investigative reports, and documents demonstrating constitutional violations that undermined the fairness of her proceedings.”
“This newly available evidence – derived from litigation against the Federal Bureau of Investigation, various financial institutions, and the Estate of Jeffrey Epstein, as well as from sworn depositions, released records, and other verified sources – shows that exculpatory information was withheld, false testimony presented, and material facts misrepresented to the jury and the Court,” the petition adds. “The cumulative effect of these constitutional violations constitutes a complete miscarriage of justice, rendering Petitioner’s conviction invalid, unsafe and infirm.”
Maxwell further claimed that with the “full evidentiary record, no reasonable juror would have convicted her.”
Maxwell’s latest petition comes as the Supreme Court rejected her appeal in October. At the time, Maxwell claimed the “government tries to distract by reciting a lurid and irrelevant account of Jeffrey Epstein’s misconduct. But this case is about what the government promised, not what Epstein did.”
“The government’s argument, across the board, is essentially an appeal to what it wishes the agreement had said, rather than what it actually says,” the court documents added. “Of course, if wishful thinking were the standard, the whole [non-prosecution agreement] would have been thrown out long ago.”
