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Prosecutors Ask Judge Nathan To Give Maxwell The Max Sentence
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Federal prosecutors urged Judge Alison Nathan to impose the maximum sentence available under the applicable federal guidelines against Ghislaine Maxwell, arguing that a prison term of between 30 and 55 years was justified by the seriousness and...
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welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Ghislaine Maxwell and her team were asking for a super light sentence at the upcoming sentencing next week and they asked for the absurd number of roughly five years. Now anyone with a brain in their head understands that five years for her is one of the most ludicrous asks of this century. This lady needs to do at least 25, 30 years, at least. And thankfully the federal government agrees because the feds in their written response to the Maxwell team, well, they came out and straight up said it. She deserves at least 30 in prison. And I think that reflects the mood of the whole entire world for the most part. People are tired of people like Maxwell getting away with like this on a regular basis. These kind of people get off and it's been going on for way too long. And finally one of them gets caught up. One of them is being held accountable. And her lawyers think she should get less time than a 70 year old man who was engaging in quote unquote, illegal sports gambling. Tell me how that makes sense because it does not. I mean, look folks, there's a five year mandatory sentence. If you get caught with crack rock, the same amount of cocaine, well, you'll probably just get probation. But if you get caught with crack rock, you have mandatory five federally. So you mean to tell me Maxwell should get less time than somebody who gets caught with some crack? And then you wonder why I talk about the two tier justice system with such rancor. It's disgusting. And it's gross. And people like Maxwell have been able to manipulate the system and game the system for way too long. Well, hopefully that party is coming to an end. Today we have an article from ABC News. Ghislaine Maxwell deserves at least 30 years in prison. This article was authored by Larry Neumeister over at the Associated Press. British socialite, co conspirator, general all around scuzbag, fellow child abuser and bipedal serpent. Ghislaine Maxwell should spend at least 30 years in prison for her role in the sexual abuse of teenage girls on over a 10 year period by her one time boyfriend, Co conspirator, you know, co boss, whatever you want to call him. But one time boyfriend? That's so ridiculous. At this point, with everything we all know, we're still going to call her, call her his one time girlfriend.
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Okay. Financier Jeffrey Epstein. You mean pedophile Jeffrey Epstein? Boy, we're batting a thousand here in this AP article. Prosecutors said Wednesday in written arguments, prosecutors said she should serve between 30 years and 55 years in prison. Reflecting the federal sentencing guidelines. They made their recommendation to the judge who will preside over the sentencing on Tuesday in Manhattan Federal court. Yeah, that's right in line with what they should be asking. There's no way that she should be doing anything less than, than 20, 25 years. That's the bare minimum. Because even then she still has a, a shot to walk out of that jail at some point if she gets 20. Right. And to me that's unacceptable. This lady should be in prison for the rest of her life. Keith Rainery, same deal. And same with that scumbag R. Kelly and any one of these other silly ass rich people who, who think they can get away with abusing poor people anytime they want. Well, the jig's up for you too. People might not have been paying attention before you got our attention now. The 60 year old Maxwell was convicted in December of sex trafficking and other crimes after a month long trial that Featured testimony from 4 women who said they were abused in their teens. And 4 could have easily been 10. 10 if the SDNY and the federal government would have pursued this correctly. Could have easily been 10, 20 women who came forward and gave their account of what happened to them. But of course we all know that the sdny, the doj, the whole, the whole entire idea was to forget that this ever happened. Unfortunately for them, Epstein got busted a second time. If it wasn't for that second arrest, we'd never even be here. None of these people that are running around grandstanding right now. You know, these politicians or these blue check marks, none of them really gave a damn about any of this. And if it wasn't for the second time around and Acosta being involved, a lot of these people still wouldn't have cared. But the fact is, this was going on for years and years and years right under the noses of. Of all these big mouths in New York. And I find it ironic whenever any of them get out there and try and tell us about other people's crimes when we know for a damn fact that Epstein and Maxwell were running around right in their district and doing this. And you mean to tell me none of them knew, huh? Cy Vance and the rest of them. Okay, sure. If that's what you want me to believe. Defense lawyers said in a sentencing submission last week that she should spend no more than five years in prison and shouldn't pay for Epstein's crimes, since he was the mastermind and principal abuser and orchestrated the crimes for his personal gratification. Once again, this is such a BS defense. If you're the underboss, you're the capo. You're in trouble like everybody else is. What do you think? Because El Chapo is. Is in trouble that the rest of his people aren't? Everybody had their hand in it, right? Everybody that was involved. And it's no different here. Maxwell and Epstein put this whole entire thing into place, and they both were working overtime to make sure that girls were coming in. How much more clear does it have to be? I mean, I don't know. Where's the. The disconnect here? Now, of course, her legal team is going to do everything they can to make it look like it was all Epstein and. And Maxwell was just along for the ride. But that doesn't match what we have heard from the survivors. And like I've said from the very beginning, for me anyway, it's bypass the. Bypass all of these stupid ass journalists who think they have an idea of what's going on and listen directly to what the survivors have to say. And then, using court documents, piecing things together. Well, you come to a place that is very dark and very, very disturbing. Epstein took his own life in 2019 in jail as he awaited a Manhattan federal sex trafficking trial. Allegedly. But prosecutors said Maxwell played an instrumental role in the horrific sexual abuse of multiple young teenage girls between 1994 and 2004 at some of Epstein's palatial residences. They called her crimes monstrous. Well, what else would you call them? Because that's exactly what they are. Monstrous. What she did to these girls, what these girls said she did to them, and then what she was convicted of. What else could you possibly call it? As part of a disturbing agreement with Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell identified, groomed and abused multiple victims. While she enjoyed a life of extraordinary luxury and privilege in her wake, Maxwell left her victims permanently scarred with emotional and psychological injuries, prosecutors wrote. And all you have to do is listen to what these ladies have to say about their time spent with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, and that'll tell you everything you need to know about their mental state. And even listen to what the older girls, older women had to say about how things broke for them after they got caught up in this web. Because while crimes against children are the most heinous crimes in the whole world, these crimes against women in any regard are sickening. And it doesn't matter their age. That damage can never be undone, but it can be accounted for in crafting a just sentence for Maxwell's crimes, they added. Prosecutors also urged the judge to reject Maxwell's pleas for leniency while on the grounds that she has suffered in extraordinary ways in jail while awaiting trial and afterward, defense lawyers said she faced death threats and harsh conditions that have caused her to lose hair and weight. Anyone who is going through a stressful period, this is going to occur. You're going to lose some hair, you're going to lose weight. That's how the body reacts. And she's not being treated any worse than anyone else in that jail. The problem is she's not being treated like she's at the Ritz. And that's a big problem for her. So that's gonna be a big problem for moving forward because breaking news, you are not at the Ritz and you're never going to be again if the prosecutors and the rest of us have anything to say about it. Maxwell's appearance at trial proved these claims were wrong, prosecutors said, adding the defendant, the the defendant is perfectly healthy with a full head of hair. Okay. They said Maxwell has enjoyed remarkable privileges as a high profile inmate that vastly exceed the benefits according to the average inmate. That's a fact. And all you have to do again, is go talk to somebody who did. Jail time shouldn't be too hard to find considering how many of our fellow citizens are locked up and used as, you know, slave labor. Basically, just go talk to them about their experiences in the system and about how shitty their life was. And then you tell me about Maxwell, how she had the computer for 14 hours, complete access to her lawyers, nobody around her. It's a dream come true in prison, if you ask me. It is unsurprising that a woman who had led a life of incredible luxury should complain about her life as a prisoner. But that fact does not come close to meriting leniency at sentencing, while much less the extraordinary degree of leniency the defendant seeks. I like that language in the response by the prosecutors, because this is bs What. What she's talking about here is straight up garbage. Four and a half years. I mean, come on. Prosecutors also attacked claims by Maxwell's lawyers that she suffered a credible death threat in jail, saying that an internal probe of the purported threat reveal that an inmate remarked to someone in passing something to the effect of, I'd kill her if someone paid me a million dollars. As a result, they said someone who overheard the remark, reported it to the inmate, reported it, and the inmate was moved from the housing unit. So a comment, a comment made in passing, like I said in the. From the beginning of all of this, I doubt it was a credible threat. The ira. Someone's going to assassinate her with a sniper. I mean, really, the ira? You couldn't come up with something more creative? The IRA hasn't been involved in violence since the time of troubles has ended. So where do you even come up with the ira? Have we been watching too many movies? I. You know, again, though, these are the same people who told us there was a ninja in Jeffrey Epstein's bushes, so I guess any BS story is possible with them. They also cited what they described as Maxwell's complete failure to address her offense, conduct, and. And her utter lack of remorse. Instead of showing even a hint of acceptance or responsibility, the defendant makes a desperate attempt to cast blame wherever else she can. And it certainly seems like that she really hasn't accepted her fate yet. And when you're looking at this kind of prison sentence, it behooves you to face the reality that you're going away forever and prepare yourself mentally. Because the second this sentencing happens, folks, listen to me when I tell you the party really is over for Ghislaine Maxwell. The whole protected status as an inmate, that's going to go by the wayside once she's convicted and sent Mainline, then, hey, that's, you know, it's going to be up to the way she conducts herself, what happens from there, because the people that she's going to be bunking with, depending on where she gets sent, well, they're not going to be the friendliest of people. Maxwell's efforts to cast aspersions on the motives of the government for prosecuting her and her claim that she is being held responsible for Epstein's crimes are absurd and offensive. Prosecutors said Maxwell was an adult who made her own choices. She made the choice to sexually exploit numerous underage girls. She made the choice to conspire with Epstein for years, working as partners in crime and, and causing devastating harm to vulnerable victims. They said, man, it sounds like I wrote that brief, huh? Very nicely done over there getting things worded correctly because this is how you should be responding to this bullshit that they're asking for. Prosecutors said nearly all of the 22 and a half million in assets that Maxwell claimed in a Bell proposal that was never granted was given to her by Epstein. Well, you know what's so funny? And as far as I'm concerned, the prosecution screwed up here. If they would have made this a RICO case, they could have used that against Maxwell because she would have received ill gotten gains, right? And then the second that happens, you can freeze all of her money, every single dollar she has, even if she is not the main target of the operation. Once those RICO predicates are met, then it's, it's game time. The federal government has a lot of lateral ability to sweep people up in these cases and you might not think that's how it works, but folks, let me tell you, it is. If you receive $1 in ill gotten gains, you can get caught up in a RICO case. But for some reason the government never brought one against Maxwell and Epstein. I'll let you figure out what that reason is. The defendant's access to wealth enabled her to present herself as a supposedly respectable member of society who rubbed shoulders with royalty, presidents and celebrities. That same wealth dazzled the girls from struggling families who became the defendant and Epstein's victims. Prosecutors said, look, they're not wrong. And all of these Yahtzee ass royalty and presidents and celebrities, they should be embarrassed. But you have to have some kind of, you know, self reflection for that to occur. Some sort of personal moral compass. But these people don't care. They don't have that. The sentencing submission also included quotes from letters written to the judge by women who testified during the trial, including Kate, an ex model from Great Britain who said the consequences of what Maxwell did have been far reaching for me. I have struggled with and eventually triumphed over substance use disorder. I have suffered panic attacks and night terrors with which I still struggle. I have suffered low self esteem, loss of career opportunities. I have battled greatly with feeling unable to trust my own instincts in choosing romantic relationships, she wrote. And look, that is pretty much the way it sums up for all of these girls, right? All of them have suffered greatly because of the behavior of Ghislaine Maxwell. And the thought that Maxwell is going to even think about getting a light sentence here is disgusting. And hopefully it won't be the case. And with the language being used by the prosecutor, the prosecutors in this filing, it sure seems to me like they're going to try and get the full 30 at 2530 at least. So that's positive, and we'll have to see what happens next Tuesday, but certainly a positive development here with the clapback by the prosecution. All right, folks, that's gonna do it for this episode. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that@bobby capuchirotonmail.com that's B O B B Y C A P U C c I@protonmail.com you can also find me on Twitter at @BO B B Y/CAP UCCI the link that I discussed can be found in the description box.