In a statement, the “Maxwell Family” said it was focusing on appeals against U.S. District Judge Allison Nathan’s ruling last Friday. That left Maxwell’s belief untouched last year with allegations that he served as a key recruiter for teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender who became wealthy as an elite financial adviser, for sexual abuse from 1994 to 2004. The judge said he had concluded that a December verdict convicting Maxwell, 60, of sex trafficking and other charges was still in force because the jury deliberately did not give wrong answers to a jury questionnaire and because “he had no prejudice against the accused. and he could act as a just and impartial juror. “ Members of the Maxwell family said in a statement: “Our family is deeply saddened by the refusal to reopen the trial of our sister Ghislaine Maxwell.” the original verdict is not secure. “ The statement said that the issue of the revelations of juror No. 50 in the media after the trial will be one of the many issues that will be appealed to the Second US District Court in Manhattan. “Our family is optimistic about Ghislaine’s success in the appeal,” they wrote. The jury interviews of jury No. 50 a few days after the verdict came after a month-long trial in which Maxwell was identified as the critical component of Epstein’s sexual abuse conspiracy. At times, prosecutors said, Maxwell was involved in the abuse. Following the trial, the juror, identified in court documents only as Jury No. 50, said publicly that he had been abused as a child and had convinced some of his colleagues that the victim’s incomplete memory did not mean it did not happen. He was among the possible jurors in the case who completed a 50-page questionnaire that included a question asking: “Have you or a friend or family member ever been sexually harassed, sexually abused or sexually assaulted?” The juror checked “No.” The juror said in an interview that he did not remember being asked this question, which was No. 48 on the paper. After rejecting the defense requests to immediately order a new trial, the judge held an unusual hearing in which he interrogated the juror, but decided not to order a new trial. In a statement, members of the Maxwell family said the judge had failed to uphold “the overriding interests of justice” by severely restricting the jury’s interrogation and “effectively securing the dice” by granting him immunity from prosecution for forgery. Epstein was 66 years old when he committed suicide in 2019 while waiting for a trial for sex trafficking in Manhattan.
