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If Epstein Had Been an Intelligence Asset, Wouldn’t Maxwell Have Raised That in Her Defense?

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Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services’ sex offender registry March 28, 2017.

New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Reuters

I haven’t given much thought to the “Jeffrey Epstein as a Mossad asset” angle because, as Rich’s excellent column today points out, it’s too moronic. Reading the piece, though, it dawned on me that if Epstein had been a clandestine agent for some intelligence service — whether foreign or our own — then Ghislaine Maxwell would have been one person who probably would have known that.

Maxwell was indicted after Epstein offed himself. She was in custody from the time of her arrest and went through very extensive pretrial motion proceedings, then a lengthy trial at which she was found guilty, eventually being sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment. With her appeal having been rejected by the Second Circuit U.S. appeals court, that could well be a life sentence for Maxwell, who is 63. (She is seeking review by the Supreme Court, but that is unlikely.)

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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