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On July 2, Ghislaine Maxwell was finally arrested in New Hampshire, in an early morning raid by the FBI that involved the use of bolt cutters and some stealth on the part of agents.

When Maxwell first faced a judge, she is reported to have broken down in tears and asked why this was happening to her.

There’s a Netflix series you might want to watch, Ghislaine – should give you a little insight.

Ahead of her trial, where she faces charges that she helped recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse minors, prosecutors are arguing that Maxwell’s request for home confinement be denied.

They say she is “skilled at hiding and had wrapped a cell phone in foil to attempt to evade detection by authorities”, reports CNN, adding that she would be an “extreme flight risk” if home confinement was allowed before the trial:

In the Monday filing, prosecutors said her proposal for home confinement, GPS tracking, and a $5 million bond secured, in part, with a property in the United Kingdom, is worth “nothing.”

They said Maxwell has shown a skilled ability to hide. When FBI agents went to arrest Maxwell at a mansion in New Hampshire [below] on July 3, instead of obeying the agent’s order to open the door, Maxwell fled to another room and closed the door behind her, according to the court filing. After the FBI breached the door they found Maxwell inside and arrested her.

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“As the agents conducted a security sweep of the house, they also noticed a cell phone wrapped in tin foil on top of a desk, a seemingly misguided effort to evade detection, not by the press or public, which of course would have no ability to trace her phone or intercept her communications, but by law enforcement,” prosecutors wrote.

If you want to know how wrapping a phone in tin foil would help block signal, and incoming calls, you can read this.

In terms of avoiding law enforcement, the phone foiling was a fail, and it further bolsters arguments that she not be allowed home confinement.

Prosecutors outlined how Maxwell’s brother hired former members of the British military to guard his sister at the New Hampshire property, with one guard given a credit card to shop on her behalf:

Prosecutors also cited Maxwell’s own wealth as a means for her to flee the country. Maxwell disclosed to the US Treasury Department that in 2018 and 2019 she held at times $2 million at an English bank and had a $4 million balance at a Swiss bank.

Maxwell holds French citizenship, which prosecutors added could see her flee to the country, which does not extradite its own citizens.

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 Prosecutors also in their filing rejected Maxwell’s claim that the charges against her are barred by a nonprosecution agreement that Epstein signed in 2007 with federal prosecutors in South Florida.

The filing said that Maxwell “was not a party to that agreement nor named in it as a third-party beneficiary.” Prosecutors also said that the deal is not binding on their office, in the Southern District of New York.

Time to answer for decades of abuse, Ghislaine.

Her detention hearing will be held today, via video call, in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

[sources:cnn&cnbc]