>>513754012 (OP)
Neither.
A Trump appointed district attorney, acting on behalf of the Trump administration in 2020, put out an official statement saying in no uncertain terms that Ghislane Maxwell was willing to and already had lied under oath to avoid justice for her sex crimes against children.
>The defendant now faces the reality of serious charges, supported by significant evidence, and the real prospect of spending many years in prison. The return of the indictment fundamentally alters the defendant’s incentives and heightens the incentive to flee far beyond the theoretical possibility of a charge during an investigation (one the defendant may have wrongly believed would or could not reach her). That is especially so when the defendant has spent the last two decades without facing consequences for her criminal actions. For years before her arrest in this case, the defendant likely believed she had gotten away with her crimes. That illusion has now been shattered, and she has a host of new reasons to use her considerable resources to flee.
>Moreover, the defendant’s willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct, including some of the conduct charged in the Indictment, strongly suggests her true motive has been and remains to avoid being held accountable for her crimes, rather than to avoid the media. As alleged in the Indictment, in 2016, when the defendant was given the opportunity to address her conduct with minors in the context of a civil suit, she lied repeatedly. Those lies are, of course, the subject of two counts of perjury, and they evidence her willingness to flout the law in order to protect herself.
-AUDREY STRAUSS
Acting United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
Source:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17318376/22/united-states-v-maxwell/
