Jeffrey Epstein associate and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell appealed to the Supreme Court on Monday to throw out her 2021 federal sex trafficking conviction.
Maxwell’s lawyers argue she is covered by the 2007 plea deal Epstein reached with South Florida prosecutors to not charge any of his accomplices.
The filing comes after President Donald Trump‘s Justice Department earlier this month wrote it opposed the Supreme Court taking up the appeal.
‘Rather than grapple with the core principles of plea agreements, the government tries to distract by reciting a lurid and irrelevant account of Jeffrey Epstein’s misconduct,’ Maxwell’s legal team wrote in their petition.
‘But this case is about what the government promised, not what Epstein did,’ wrote the husband-and-wife duo, David and Mona Markus.
Maxwell met on Thursday and Friday with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to answer questions about the highly controversial case that has sparked a civil war in MAGA world.
David Oscar Markus said outside the courthouse in Tallahasse, Florida last week that his client answered every question the Blanche asked of her.
He also appeared to be angling for a pardon from the president.
In 2007, Epstein struck a deal that allowed him to plead guilty in Florida to solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors to engage in prostitution and only serve 13 months in jail.
The agreement stipulated that Miami’s U.S. Attorney’s Office would ‘not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein.’
The deal names four individuals, none of whom were Maxwell.
But the Marukses argue that the deal also included their client when it said ‘any potential co-conspirators’ are also immunized in the case.
