Epstein Files: Justice Department Asks Supreme Court to Uphold Ghislane Maxwell's Sentence | Crime Alert 6AM 07.16.25
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🗓️ 16 July 2025
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As the Justice Department faces news scrutiny over the Jeffrey Epstein case, the Feds urge the Supreme Court to deny Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal. A man camping in Idaho is mistaken for Travis Decker, the fugitive accused of killing his daughters. An Indianapolis mother is charged with trying to sell her baby for sex. A California farmworker dies after falling from a greenhouse roof during a chaotic immigration raid. A jury orders a Georgia hotel to pay $40 million to a sex trafficking survivor after the staff let the crimes happen. Drew Nelson reports.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News now. I'm Drew Nelson, yet more scrutiny on the Jeffrey Epstein case. |
| 0:07.5 | The Justice Department urging the Supreme Court to deny Gilles' appeal. On Monday, federal lawyers |
| 0:13.6 | asked the court to leave her sex trafficking conviction in place. The request coming as pressure grows over how the DOJ has handled the Jeffrey Epstein case files. |
| 0:23.3 | 63-year-old Maxwell is serving 20 years in prison. A New York jury found her guilty in 2021 on five |
| 0:29.5 | charges, including sex trafficking of a minor and conspiracy. Her release is set for 2037. She's |
| 0:35.4 | currently being held in Tallahassee, Florida. In her appeal, Maxwell |
| 0:38.8 | argued that the case should be thrown out. She said she was protected under Epstein's 2007 plea deal. |
| 0:44.8 | She also claimed the statute of limitations had run out. The second court rejected her arguments, |
| 0:49.8 | but she told the Supreme Court that different courts have ruled differently on the issue. |
| 0:54.3 | She said justices should step in to clarify. |
| 0:57.1 | Her lawyer, David Oscar Marcus, took aim at President Trump. |
| 1:00.5 | Quote, he's known as the ultimate dealmaker, and I'm confident that he would agree that the |
| 1:04.8 | government should uphold its promises. |
| 1:07.1 | Marcus went on to say it was, quote, particularly unjust for Maxwell to stay in prison over a, quote, broken promise from the government. |
| 1:14.1 | The DOJ filing comes after it told the public there was no new information in Epstein's case. |
| 1:19.4 | Some reports claim Congress may call on Maxwell to testify. |
| 1:23.0 | Sources say she is open to it. |
| 1:24.9 | Her lawyer did not reply to media requests for comment. More crime and |
| 1:29.2 | justice news after this. A man camping in Idaho is mistaken for Travis Decker, the man accused of |
| 1:41.2 | killing his three daughters, triggering a massive law enforcement response. |
| 1:45.3 | The man named Nick was camping in Bear Creek on July 5th when someone thought he looked like |
| 1:50.4 | Travis Decker. Your instinct isn't to think that was me. So my first thought was, oh my God, we |
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