Longtime Jeffrey Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell should be granted bail because of the COVID-19 threat in jail, her lawyers say.
The request comes days after New York federal prosecutors asked a judge to keep her in federal custody until her trial, describing her as an “extreme” flight risk.
She was charged in a six-count indictment alleging that she enticed minors, some as young as 14, to engage in illegal sex acts with Epstein in the mid-1990s. Maxwell is locked up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, just across the river from the federal prison in Manhattan where Epstein died by suicide last August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
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