The Manhattan District Attorney’s filing charges against the Trump Organization and its CFO Allen Weisselberg grabbed front-page headlines throughout the mainstream media on Thursday.
But it’s not the only criminal court case that has political insiders paying attention.
Former President Bill Clinton may have gotten very bad news on Thursday.
A federal judge ruled that any documents related to Ghislaine Maxwell’s case that could link pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and the Clinton Global Initiative be unsealed to the public within two weeks.
Epstein, a disgraced billionaire with ties to the Clinton family and other global elites, died in his prison cell under mysterious circumstances while awaiting trial in August 2019.
Maxwell is accused of grooming young women as part of an alleged international pedophile sex trafficking conspiracy for Epstein and his friends. Critics have long suspected that Clinton was somehow involved, but hard evidence has remained elusive.
Judge Loretta Preska “ruled that dozens more documents about Ghislaine Maxwell’s personal affairs should be made public, including some that could reveal more about her finances and her relationship to the Clintons,” The Daily Mail reported.
Court filings show that lawyers for Virginia Roberts Giuffre — who sued Maxwell for defamation in 2015 — demanded the release of documents, including but not limited to “funding received from the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation”, be made public.
The judge ruled in their favor, saying the release of the legal documents would not impact Maxwell’s right to a fair trial in her upcoming criminal case in New York.
Maxwell, 59, has been jailed in New York City since her arrest last July. The former girlfriend of Epstein has pleaded not guilty to charges that she recruited four teenage girls between 1994 and 2004 for Epstein.
U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan in Manhattan rejected has thrice rejected bail requests and a federal appeals court has twice agreed that Maxwell should remain incarcerated despite her willingness to pledge a $28.5 million bail package that would include 24-hour armed guards and an offer to reject her British and French citizenships. She is a U.S. citizen too.
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The Associated Press contributed to this article