Federal prosecutors were ordered Friday to name the alleged co-conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend ahead of her trial on sex trafficking charges. Prosecutors must reveal the identities to Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of abusing and trafficking underage girls with the late Epstein, because it failed multiple times to object to Maxwell’s requests to do so, U.S. District Court Judge Alison Nathan said in her order. Prosecutors last month said that they did not want to “provide an exhaustive list of co-conspirators, whether in a bill of particulars or otherwise, and does not intend to do so absent further order of the Court.” They also said they only planned to introduce co-conspirator statements from Epstein and an employee of Epstein at the upcoming trial and argued there was “no basis” to require disclosure of the currently unnamed alleged co-conspirators. “This Court has twice concluded that no bill of particulars is …
Federal Prosecutors Ordered to Identify Ghislaine Maxwell’s Co-Conspirators
September 4, 2021
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