Ghislaine Maxwell is expected to ask a US appeals court to throw out her conviction for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, saying a slew of errors marred her case and prosecutors made her a scapegoat because the financier was dead.
Key points:
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted in December 2021
Her lawyers says prosecutors turned her into a proxy for dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
Prosecutors are expected to respond to Maxwell's filing before the appeals court hears oral arguments
"The government prosecuted Ms. Maxwell as a proxy for Jeffrey Epstein" to satisfy "public outrage" over the case, and worked with his accusers "to develop new allegations out of faded, distorted, and motivated memories", her lawyer Arthur Aidala said in a statement.
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She is serving a 20-year prison sentence after a Manhattan jury convicted her in December 2021 on five charges for recruiting and grooming four girls for abuse by Epstein between 1994 and 2004.
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me: Public outrage over her proven criminal actions - she knew what she was doing was wrong.