Ghislaine Maxwell dedicated himself to a “significant pattern of dishonest behavior,” said the DOJ in 2022

Ghislaine Maxwell participated in a “significant pattern of dishonest behavior,” enabled and participated in the abuse of multiple adolescents, and was not responsible for their crimes.

That was the evaluation of federal prosecutors who presented a criminal case against the former associate of Jeffrey Epstein and sent it to prison for 20 years.

Now, three years later, and in the midst of the ongoing controversy that surrounds the management of the Trump administration of the Epstein archives, the Department of Justice has decided to approach Maxwell, 63, to supposedly learn more about his knowledge of whether Epstein’s sexual trafficking extended to people who are not him.

The prosecutors’ sentence memorandum after Maxwell’s sentence offers a frank evaluation of Maxwell’s “monstrous” crimes and throws doubts about his honesty before his meeting with the attached attorney general Todd Blanche at the end of this week.

“In summary, the defendant has repeatedly lied to his crimes, exhibited an absolute fault to accept responsibility and demonstrated a lack of respect repeated by law and court,” federal prosecutors of the United States Prosecutor’s Office for the Southern District of New York wrote in June 2022.

Blanche will meet with Maxwell in the next few days to learn more information “about anyone who has committed crimes against victims.”

Before the meeting, Maxwell’s appeal lawyer, David Oscar Markus, promised that “he would testify with sincerity” and thanked President Donald Trump for his “commitment to discover the truth in this case.”

Maxwell continues to appeal to his conviction. His lawyers have asked the Supreme Court to throw his case, arguing a non -presence agreement that Epstein made with Florida prosecutors in 2007 allegedly prohibited his subsequent prosecution in New York more than a decade later.

The Trump administration asked the Court higher earlier this month to deny Maxwell’s request.

In their judgment memorandum in 2022, defense lawyers argued that Maxwell “should not bear all the punishment by which Epstein should have been responsible.”

“Epstein was the intellectual author, Epstein was the main abuser, and Epstein orchestrated the crimes for his personal satisfaction. In fact, Ghislaine Maxwell would never have had the deep misfortune of meeting Jeffrey Epstein for more than 30 years, she would not be here,” they argued.

Prosecutors said Maxwell enabled Epstein and participated directly in abuse.

According to prosecutors, the testimony caused in the Maxwell trial showed that he was a vital participant in Epstein’s crimes, offering an appearance of respectability and confidence before the sentenced sexual offender abused dozens of teenagers.

It was identified and fought for vulnerable young women, prepared them to normalize their abuse and participated in abuse, which directly allows one of the most significant sexual trafficking operations in the history of the United States, prosecutors said.

“Maxwell became friends with his victims, won his trust, slowly broke his limits and normalized sexual abuse,” prosecutors wrote in The Memo. “Maxwell’s victims trusted her: she was a seemingly respectable woman who showed interest in them and promised to help them. It was key to the entire operation of the scheme, and Epstein could not have committed these crimes without her.”

According to the government’s judgment, Maxwell “personally dedicated himself to sexual abuse when he stroked the breasts” of three victims. He was also “the person who was more frequently in the room when Epstein abused” one of the victims, who testified with the name of Jane.

“Years of sexual abuse, multiple victims, devastating psychological damage: none of this could have happened without Maxwell,” prosecutors wrote.

Maxwell repeatedly lied to officials, prosecutors said

Prosecutors repeatedly emphasized the trial that should not be trusted in Maxwell, arguing that “he dedicated himself to a significant pattern of dishonest behavior, which says a lot about his character.”

They identified at least four cases in which Maxwell allegedly lied or made dishonest representations for the authorities or civil lawsuits.

During a 2016 statement, he said under oath that he never gave Annie Farmer, a victim who testified at the trial, a massage. The agricultural testimony at the trial “established that it was a lie,” prosecutors said.

He allegedly lied to court officials during an interview about their assets. When the court denied his bail request, the judge said that Maxwell “misrepresent[ed] Key facts to the services prior to the trial and, by extension, the court “.

Prosecutors said Maxwell lied in November 2021 when he told the court: “I have not committed any crime” in response to a question about whether he dedicated himself to guilt discussions with the government.

Maxwell also falsely said he had no assets when he interviewed with the Court’s probation office, despite having previously stated that he had $ 22 million in assets. He also refused to provide information about the circumstances of his marriage, prosecutors said.

“In summary, the defendant decides when he wants to reveal facts to the court, and those facts change when he serves the interests of the accused,” prosecutors wrote.

Maxwell benefited from the relationship with Epstein, prosecutors said

The prosecutors alleged that Maxwell lived a “notable privilege life” and received approximately $ 23 million from Epstein during the period of their alleged crimes.

Maxwell also received a town in New York from Epstein and benefited from his luxurious lifestyle, prosecutors allege. Epstein also bequeathed $ 10 million of his assets, although Maxwell has not received those funds because the heritage is in successions.

“As part of a disturbing agreement with Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell identified, arranged and abused multiple victims, while enjoying an extraordinary luxury and privileged life.

Maxwell diverted the responsibility of their crimes, prosecutors said

In his sentence, some of the witnesses who testified in the trial urged Judge Alison Nathan to impose a severe sentence due to the damage Maxwell had caused and his apparent lack of remorse.

A witness who testified under the name of Kate described Maxwell as “a manipulative, cruel and ruthless person who only uses the kindness to manipulate and generosity to seek recognition.”

“The lack of remorse or responsibility assumed by Ghislaine about how he ruined the life of innumerable women and children is exactly how we can say that he does not believe that what he did is wrong. He does not feel it and would do it again,” Kate said.

Annie Farmer asked the judge to consider the “continuous suffering of the many women to whom he abused and exploded” and how Maxwell’s inability to accept the consequences of his crimes continued to damage the victims.

“I ask you to take into account how Maxwell’s lack of will to recognize his crimes, his lack of remorse and his repeated lies about their victims created the need for many of us to get involved in a long struggle for people who felt like a black hole sucking in our beautiful time, energy and well -being for too long now, things that cannot be replaced,” said the farmer.

When Maxwell briefly addressed the Court, said “empathy[s] Deeply with all the victims in this case “and that meeting of Epstein years before was their” greatest regret. “

His lawyers have argued for a long time that Maxwell was unfairly attacked for Epstein’s crimes after his death, and his statement in the sentence echoed that argument.

“Jeffrey Epstein should have been here before all of you. You should have stayed before you ago,” he said. “It should have been left before you in 2005, again in 2009, and again in 2019, all the many times that he was accused, accused and processed. But today it is not about Epstein. It is for me to be sentenced and that the victims went to me and me alone, in this court.”

Peter Charalambous of ABC News contributed to this report.