Ghislaine Maxwell: Court upholds sex trafficking conviction [Video]

NEW YORK –

A U.S. court on Tuesday upheld disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction on sex trafficking charges for helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein abuse underage girls.

Maxwell’s lawyers had argued that her convictions violated an agreement Epstein reached with federal prosecutors 15 years ago in which he agreed to plead guilty to sex crimes and his co-conspirators were granted immunity. The lawyers also said some of the charges were brought after the statute of limitations had expired, and alleged judicial errors during her trial and sentencing.

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But a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected all of those arguments.

“Identifying no errors in the District Court’s conduct of this complex case, we affirm the District Court’s … judgment of conviction,” Judge Jose Cabranes wrote in the ruling.

Maxwell, …