Ex-Jeffrey Epstein girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell seeks $28.5 million bail package

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CBS News

DECEMBER 15, 2020 / 5:49 AM / AP

Lawyers for the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein are urging a judge to free her to await trial under a $28.5 million bail package that would include armed guards to ensure she remains safe and doesn't flee a New York City residence.

The bail arguments on behalf of Ghislaine Maxwell, first filed under seal last Tuesday, were publicly released late Monday with redactions in Manhattan federal court that were approved by Judge Alison J. Nathan.

They were supported by numerous letters from family and friends who insisted that Maxwell sought seclusion in a New Hampshire home in December 2019 after receiving death threats and worrying that the public and media would find her at a home where she lived with her husband.

A security specialist who offered to pledge $1 million toward the bail package and to provide armed security for Maxwell if she is released on bail said Maxwell retreated into a back room of her residence when the FBI approached on July 2 because it was thought reporters had found her.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ghislaine-maxwell-ex-jeffrey-epstein-girlfriend-seeks-28-5-million-bail-package/

[soothsayer]

1. Will she pilot her own helicopter off the roof?

Fly to her submarine and disappear?

Ha.

[irisblue]

2. No. That Rapist and rapist enabler need to stay in jail, waiting for her turn at the bar

[marble falls]

3. Nope. Come clean and get it over with.

[Bengus81]

4. And a few hours later on a Lear headed for France...............

No thanks...............

[DemoTex]

5. What's the hurry, kiddo?

I'd think you are high on Don the Con's pardon list.

[cab67]

6. she moved her assets to her husband in 2016.

I bet a good prosecutor could get that transfer reversed; given that she was personally under investigation at the time, the transfer would almost certainly have been to shelter it from being used to pay fines and restitution to victims.

[WinstonSmith4740]

7. Girlfriend?

I know this is the word that the media is using to describe her, and it fries me every time. I just got through teaching about human trafficking in Health class. She was Epstein's procurer, pure and simple. I look in my kid's eyes (when we're in class together) and it tears me up that human garbage like her scope playgrounds and malls looking for their victims...my students.

She deserves to rot in jail.

[58Sunliner]

12. Agreed. Sick of the media letting her off.

[kairos12]

8. She would disappear in a week.

[cab67]

13. If she's afraid of the papparazzi...

the best place for her is in prison. They can't reach her there.

And anyone who thinks she'd stay put if let out - I've got a bridge for sale. Good location between New York City boroughs.

[niyad]

9. F'n hell, NO. She is a monster.

[MontanaMama]

10. WTF? A "bail package"?

Taxpayers should not fund a friggin’ bail package for this person. Much cheaper to keep her in jail. I’m sure she’s as safe as she needs to be in her cell.

[drray23]

15. taxpayers would not fund it obviously.

The bail is paid by the person who is in jail awaiting trial, not the other way around.

[cab67]

14. Something I'm curious about -

Has anyone among the prosecutors indicated that a bail "package" would even be considered? I know remanded defendants often continue to request bail, but for someone who is so flagrantly obvious a flight risk - not to mention someone who would have a neon target on her back should she be walking the streets - surely the original "No" would have been emphatic.

She can keep spending her money on efforts to get cut loose, but at some point, enough is enough. No is no.

[58Sunliner]

16. Where did she get all the money?

I'd make her prove it was legally acquired and had paid taxes on it. Then deny her bail. She should rot in prison.

[IBEWVET]

18. The money will come

from all the important people she can pimp out. She gets out, flees, or is killed, it will be money well spent from these perverts.

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. There are a whole lot of people who's safety she never gave a shit about, so fuck her.

let her stay in prison.

[Miigwech]

19. No. No matter how much money. Money was the the enabler.