Ghislaine Maxwell Has Breakdown After Judge Denies Bail; Geraldo Rivera Attacks Federal Judge for Not Allowing Maxwell Out on Bail; Ghislaine Maxwell Is Also Under Investigation in U.S. Virgin Islands

By New York Post. Ghislaine Maxwell cried as she was ordered held without bail Tuesday — with a Manhattan judge ruling the accused sex abuser “poses substantial actual risk of flight” after she purposely hid from authorities.

The 58-year-old British socialite and pal of late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein wiped tears from her left eye several times, using the back of her left index finger, as federal Judge Alison Nathan refused to free her from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn until her trial next year.

“No combination of conditions” could ensure that Maxwell wouldn’t try to flee prosecution, Nathan said during a video conference in Manhattan federal court — where Maxwell appeared on the feed remotely from a closet-size room at the jail.

“The risks are simply too great,” the judge said, adding that Maxwell has exhibited an “extraordinary capacity to evade detection.”

Maxwell, the daughter of disgraced late newspaper baron Robert Maxwell, briefly hung her head when it became clear that she wasn’t going to be released at all — much less to a luxury New York City hotel, as she had requested — until trial. (Read more from “Ghislaine Maxwell Has Breakdown After Judge Denies Bail” HERE)

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Geraldo Rivera Attacks Federal Judge for Not Allowing Maxwell Out on Bail

By Fox News. Fox News correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera accused the New York federal judge presiding over Ghislaine Maxwell’s case of “copping out to the mob” Tuesday after she denied the British socialite’s bail request as she awaits trial on sex trafficking charges.

“I think this was a political decision,” Rivera asserted on “Bill Hemmer Reports”. “I think that the question is not whether she committed these hideous offenses. The question is whether or not she would show up for trial. She bought a house in New Hampshire, for goodness’ sakes. She went to all this trouble to stay in the country. . .

“It doesn’t make any sense,” he said before claiming that prosecutors in the case “are doing this to put pressure on her.”

“They are punishing her before conviction,” Rivera argued. “She has never been held liable in a civil suit, never been convicted of a crime. She is not Jeffrey Epstein. I think this is a terrible, punitive decision.” . . .

“Remember, these charges relate to offenses that happened 25 years ago, from 1994 to 1997,” Rivera concluded. “I think these are charges that are wobbly on their face and for this judge to chicken out and not give this defendant bail I think is copping out to the mob.” (Read more from “Geraldo Rivera Attacks Federal Judge for Not Allowing Maxwell Out on Bail” HERE)

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Ghislaine Maxwell Is Also Under Investigation in U.S. Virgin Islands

By Bloomberg. Ghislaine Maxwell is also under investigation by the U.S. Virgin Islands for her alleged participation in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.

The Caribbean territory gave notice of its investigation in a court filing Friday in which it seeks to intervene in a lawsuit she filed against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. The socialite sued earlier this year seeking reimbursement for legal fees she was incurring, claiming Epstein had repeatedly promised her that he would support her financially.

The island’s Department of Justice “is investigating Maxwell’s participation in Epstein’s criminal sex trafficking and sexual abuse conduct,” according to the July 10 filing. It’s also using the case to subpoena Maxwell, a process the government said she has evaded since March.

“The government’s need to intervene is further fueled by Maxwell’s inappropriate use of the Virgin Islands courts to seek payment and reimbursement from the Epstein criminal enterprise, while she circumvents the service of process of government subpoenas related to her involvement in that criminal enterprise,” the filing states. Epstein was a resident of the Virgin Islands for more than 20 years and owned two islands — Little St. James and Great St. James — which the government said it’s seeking to claim as part of its legal effort. (Read more from “Ghislaine Maxwell Is Also Under Investigation in U.S. Virgin Islands” HERE)

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