Report: FMR Israeli spy Maxwell is found guilty of aiding in Epstein’s sex abuse
Washington (QNN)- Ghislaine Maxwell, the former companion to deceased American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was convicted on Wednesday of conspiring with him for at least a decade to recruit, groom and sexually abuse underage girls.
The New York Times revealed on Wednesday that a federal jury in Manhattan found the 60-year-old and the daughter of a British media mogul, Maxwell, is guilty of sex trafficking and four of the five other charges against her.
The American daily newspaper said Maxwell was acquitted of one count of enticing a minor to travel across state lines to engage in an illegal sexual act.
The Judge did not set a date for Maxwell to be sentenced.
On the most serious of the counts for which she was convicted — sex trafficking of minors — she could face up to 40 years in prison.
Another count carries a potential 10-year sentence, and the three others, all conspiracy counts, carry sentences of up to five years each.
Maxwell also faces a separate trial, in the same court, on two counts of perjury, stemming from 2016 depositions she gave in a lawsuit related to Epstein.
Epstein was arrested in July 2019 at the age of 66, killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell the following month, the medical examiner ruled, while awaiting his own trial on sex trafficking charges. Maxwell was arrested a year later.
According to The New York Times, two women testified that Epstein started engaging in sex acts with them when they were only 14 years old.
One said that Maxwell was sometimes present in the encounters, and the other said Maxwell had molested her directly by touching her breasts.
“This case is about Ghislaine Maxwell, the crimes she committed,” prosecutor Maurene Comey said in a government rebuttal.
“It’s about the children that she targeted, the steps that she took to serve those children up to be abused. It’s about her own participation in that abuse.”
In 2020, the former Israeli spy Ari Ben-Menashe in his book “Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales” revealed that Epstein and Maxwell were Israeli spies who used underage girls to blackmail politicians into giving information to Israeli intelligence.
The couple reportedly ran a “honey-trap” operation in which they provided young girls to prominent politicians from around the world for sex, and then used the incidents to blackmail them in order to attain information for Israeli Mossad.
The former Israeli spy said that he was the handler of Ghislaine’s father Robert Maxwell, who was also an Israeli espionage agent and was the one who introduced his daughter and Epstein to Mossad.
