SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 14 -- It was Day 2 of the
Ghislaine Maxwell trial hiatus and the
courthouse was like a ghost town.
No line up outside 40 Foley
Square, and free run inside for Kurt
Wheelock. He went to the change of plea of a
meth transporter brought in from El Paso.
Despite the man cooperating with the
government, he was ordered immediately
detained, and shackled right in front of his
mother, the only person in the gallery other
than Kurt.
The sell-out to Epstein and now
perhaps Maxwell was not he only sadness in
the court. But it echoed loudly, and Kurt
gave in and went with it.
He
remembered not only Epstein's arraignment
and denial of bond, like Maxwells, but also
his posthumous wake, which for Maxwell had
yet to happen. Judge Richard M. Berman had
scheduled a nolo prosequi proceeding
informed by the Crime Victims Rights Act,
the statute ignored by DOJ in Epstein's
sleazy disposition in 2007-2008 down in
Florida.
That morning that was an opinion piece
in the New York Law School by a professor of
Kurt's in night law school at Fordham. David
Boies had both mocked it as poisoned by
conflict of interest, not without irony
given Boies work not only for Theranos'
Elizabeth Holmes but also Harvey Weinstein.
Such sleaze was one of the reasons the Kurt
practiced little.
At
Judge Berman's wake there were many Jane
Does, some known like Jane Doe 43 who sued
not only Epstein but also Sarah Kellen now
the wife of a NASCAR driver, but also Lesley
Groff and Natalyna Malyshev. That case had
been dismissed with prejudice, settled
without the terms being in the record.
But
many at the wake, held on August 27, 2019,
had been on the record. First Courtney Wild,
then Chauntae Davies and later her sister
Teale. Annie Farmer had spoken, explicitly
on behalf of his sister Maria. There was
Anouska De Beorgiou and Michelle Licata,
Theresa Helm and Marijke Cjhartouni. Here
was Jennifer Aroz and of course Virginia
Roberts Giuffre, who relentless held the
mirror up to Maxwell, and also to Prince
Andrew.
Kurt
had been in the courtroom, scared them to
try to use his phone. The testimony had
washed over him and the media comments
outside on Foley Square, as some got into
black cars and some talked to the subway. It
was not known then that Maxwell would be
indict and arrested - or that, at least for
now, they would try to stop it there. Would
they drill further down, to Sarah Kellen et
al.?
Or would they as justice cried out for go
higher, to the Prince and yes, the UN
Secretary General? Kurt tweeted the idea,
and the UN's response that day was to hand
spin about its rapes to the correspondents
it let in, none of whom asking anything.
Kurt ordered and put online
the video. Some got it, and some didn't. The
hiatus couldn't be forever. #MaximumMaxwell.
And so it
continued. Click
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(2d).
Note:
On October 29,
2021 and again on November 12
Ghislaine
Maxwell and
the US
Attorney's
Office for the
Southern
District of
New York filed
a flurry of
motions in
limine,
heavily
redacted; the
Government
argued that
trial exhibits
are not public
and will be
withheld.
Inner City
Press opposed
and opposes
the continued
secrecy.
Inner City Press
will cover the trial, and all
the comes before and after it;
#CourtCaseCast and song I,
Song
2, Song
3, fifth song
and now Nov
27 song
The underlying
case is US v. Maxwell,
20-cr-330 (Nathan).
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