
Jury set to resume deliberations in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking trial
CNN
After deliberating for less than an hour Monday, jurors in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking trial are set to begin their first full day of deliberations Tuesday in federal court in New York.
Maxwell, 59, has pleaded not guilty to six federal counts, including sex trafficking of a minor, enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and three related counts of conspiracy. If convicted on all six counts, she faces up to 70 years in prison.
The deliberations cap a three-week trial highlighted by testimony from four women who alleged Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused them and that Maxwell, his former girlfriend and longtime associate, facilitated and sometimes participated in that abuse. The sexual abuse allegedly occurred when the women were younger than 18, and their accusations stretched from 1994 to 2004.

The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida Tuesday to volunteer over the “next several days” to help to redact the Epstein files, in the latest internal Trump administrationpush toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The US State Department on Tuesday imposed visa sanctions on a former top European Union official and employees of organizations that combat disinformation for alleged censorship – sharply ratcheting up the Trump administration’s fight against European regulations that have impacted digital platforms, far-right politicians and Trump allies, including Elon Musk.











