The MDC rolled out the orange carpet for Maxwell’s defense team Friday, allowing them what sources said was the first in-person federal jail visit in the city since the start of the corona virus pandemic.
While the Bureau of Prisons declined to answer whether she was the first federal inmate in NY to receive a visit, they said, “While, in general, legal visits are suspended, … We are facilitating attorney client-visitation, as well as judicial proceedings, via video conference, primarily at our detention centers.”
A Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit over legal visits at the MDC indicates that as of last week in-person meetings had not yet resumed. A lawyer involved in the suit over attorney-client access, believed Maxwell was the first to receive a legal visit. He said, “It’s frankly outrageous. It’s also colossally stupid. The reaction is entirely predictable. There’s two systems of justice: One for friends of the President, one for everyone else”. Another lawyer with clients at the MDC who could face the death penalty said, “I’m incredulous really that she was the first one when there are those of us who have been waiting for nearly six months to have an in-person visit with our clients. It’s heartbreaking, actually.”
Madam Maxwell has been behind bars for less than two months and was permitted to have two of her lawyers visit for nearly four hours.
Ghislaine Maxwell is first federal inmate in NYC to receive in-person visit since start of pandemic: sources
If that doesn’t grind your gears, the next bits certainly will.
* She has a whole jail floor to herself.
* Before she arrived, other women inmates had to clean and polish the floor three times so it would be ready for her.
* She also gets an extra hour of recreation time a day. During her rec time, the other women are locked out of the recreation area and they can see her jogging in the outdoor space.
Animal Farm is alive and well at the MDC.
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