Maxwell trial adjourned for day after attorney falls sick
The sex-abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell has been paused because an attorney on the case has gotten sick
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Your support makes all the difference.The sex-abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell was paused Thursday after it was announced an attorney on the case had gotten sick.
U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan told the in federal court in Manhattan that an attorney was “ill and has to get care.” She did not identify the attorney, but said there was no reason to believe the illness was related to the coronavirus.
The judge sent jurors home for the day, telling them to expect to return Friday to resume hearing testimony in the trial's second week.
Maxwell, 59, has denied charges she groomed teenagers to give financier Jeffrey Epstein sexual messages at the billionaire’s residences in Florida, New York New Mexico and elsewhere. Her lawyers have accused prosecutor of making her a scapegoat for sex crimes committed by Epstein, who killed himself in jail in 2019.
The government had been expected to end its case by the end of the week.