Ghislaine Maxwell denied new trial in Jeffrey Epstein sex crime case

Ghislaine Maxwell appears via video link during her arraignment hearing where she was denied bail for her role aiding Jeffrey Epstein to recruit and eventually abuse of minor girls, in Manhattan Federal Court, in New York, July 14, 2020 in this courtroom sketch.

A federal judge denied a new trial for a British woman who was convicted of procuring girls to be sexually abused by a man who had abused her as a child.

Judge Alison Nathan said that the lawyers had failed to meet the requirements for a new trial.

A juror testified during a hearing in March that he had lied on a questionnaire before the trial, asking prospective jurors if they had been the victims.

The jury's failure to answer that with a yes, instead of the no, violated her right to have a fair trial, according to her lawyers.

She believed that Juror 50 was not biased and would not have been stricken from the jury.

The Manhattan District Court found him guilty of five felony counts, including conspiracy to entice minor to travel to engage in illegal sexual acts.

She faces decades in prison when she is sentenced for her part in the abuse of young girls.

Teenagers were the accusers in the case when they were abused by Epstein at his properties.

Since her arrest in New Hampshire in July 2020, she has been held without bail.

One year after that arrest, the man was arrested on federal child sex trafficking charges.

The 66-year-old money manager died in a federal jail in Manhattan in August of last year, from what has been ruled a suicide by hanging in his cell.

Donald Trump and Bill Clinton were two of the people that Epstein had friends with.

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