Trump Admin Defends Epstein Conspirator’s Conviction At Supreme Court

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) urged the Supreme Court on Monday to deny Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal and let her sex trafficking conviction stand.

Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 on sex trafficking charges for helping Jeffrey Epstein abuse minor girls, argued the New York prosecution was prohibited by an earlier non-prosecution agreement (NPA).

Under Alexander Acosta, the United States Attorney’s office for the Southern District of Florida entered into a non-prosecution agreement allowing Epstein in 2007 to plead guilty to state offenses to avoid federal prosecution. Acosta would later serve as Secretary of Labor during Trump’s first term.

“It would be extremely strange if the NPA left Epstein himself open to federal prosecution in another district—as eventually occurred … — while protecting his coconspirators from prosecution anywhere,” Solicitor General John Sauer wrote in the brief. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Top Trump Officials Admit They’re Pissed At How The Epstein Story Was Handled)

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A DOJ memo published by Axios July 6 stated there is no Epstein client list and affirmed he committed suicide, sparking outrage among the president’s base that culminated with reports of potential resignations.

“The conspiracy theories just aren’t true, never have been,” FBI Director Kash Patel wrote Saturday on X. “It’s an honor to serve the President of the United States @realDonaldTrump — and I’ll continue to do so for as long as he calls on me.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested during a February interview on Fox News that she had the client list sitting on her desk. Days later, a group of online conservative influencers received “Phase 1” Epstein files binders at the White House, which mostly contained information that was already public.

President Donald Trump defended Bondi in a post to Truth Social on Saturday, writing the administration is “about to achieve more in 6 months than any other Administration has achieved in over 100 years.”

“LET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB — SHE’S GREAT!” he wrote.

Maxwell filed her petition with the Supreme Court in April after the Second Circuit Court of Appeals declined to toss her conviction.

“Despite the existence of a non-prosecution agreement promising in plain language that the United States would not prosecute any co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein, the United States in fact prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell as a co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein,” Maxwell’s petition stated. “Only because the United States did so in the Second Circuit and not elsewhere, her motion to dismiss the indictment was denied, her trial proceeded, and she is now serving a 20 year sentence.”

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