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no_hypocrisy

(46,038 posts)
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 11:33 AM Jul 2019

What We Know About Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's Alleged Madam

Though Epstein is the only person named, many powerful people with ties to the 66-year-old are likely feeling a little nervous about the consequences of the billionaire’s arrest — including Ghislaine Maxwell, a confidante of Epstein’s who has been connected to him for more than two decades and is alleged to have played a critical role in recruiting and grooming underage girls into his sex-trafficking ring. Though Maxwell is a key figure in the Epstein case, she has not yet been arrested and has repeatedly denied accusations against her. As the details of Epstein’s alleged crimes become clearer, however, we’re likely to hear her name come up again and again.

https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-alleged-madam.html

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hlthe2b

(102,141 posts)
1. I'm guessing she's reviewing her options:
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 11:38 AM
Jul 2019


These countries currently have no extradition treaty with the United States:

Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and

Herzegovina, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Central

African Republic, Chad, Mainland China, Comoros, Congo (Kinshasa), Congo (Brazzaville), Djibouti, Equatorial

Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan,

Kosovo, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands,

Mauritania, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal,

Niger, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé & Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia,

Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu,

Vatican, Vietnam and Yemen.

rainin

(3,010 posts)
4. But, do they want child molesters? I'm guessing not a woman of modest income.
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 12:43 PM
Jul 2019

A rich white billionaire....maybe.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,271 posts)
6. I wouldn't count on her income being 'modest'
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 12:57 PM
Jul 2019

Yes, her father's empire turned out to be bankrupt after his death (the biggest ever in the UK at the time) (he was the nearest British equivalent to Donald Trump, complete with the 2 sons trying to make money in his businesses, and the daughter looking for respectability in the posh set), thanks to his fraud. But these kind of people are very good at hiding away money for the rest of the family to use that can't be touched by a bankruptcy. She's managed to spend time in the New York posh set ever since, and has probably had plenty of money from her association with Epstein.

If she can be noted in Wikipedia as founding charitable projects, her income is probably quite sufficient to get an open-armed welcome from a country that'll take her tax and ignore her pimping.

FakeNoose

(32,599 posts)
7. Based on her father's career choices
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 01:05 PM
Jul 2019

... we cannot overlook the possibility that Maxwell might be a Russian operative. Or she might have been working to enable Epstein to use kompromat for financial gain (as the Russians would have done.) I hope the feds have their hands on her passport so she can't skip the country.

Just sayin'

sandensea

(21,604 posts)
8. Or a GCHQ operative
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 01:55 PM
Jul 2019

The British have a long history of extorting influential people to get what they want.

Cheeto's a sitting duck.

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