A routine cover letter from the U.S. Attorney's Office dated October 26, 2021, transmitting witness materials and discovery to Ghislaine Maxwell at MDC Brooklyn in preparation for her December 2021 sex trafficking trial.

This is a standard procedural document from U.S. Attorney Damian Williams of the Southern District of New York, instructing the Metropolitan Detention Center to provide Ghislaine Maxwell access to enclosed witness materials and discovery evidence. The letter was sent approximately one month before Maxwell's trial began on November 29, 2021. Such transmittal letters are common in federal criminal cases where defendants must review voluminous discovery materials while incarcerated.

Key Highlights

• •Routine discovery transmittal letter dated October 26, 2021, about one month before trial
• •Signed by Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney who would later call Maxwell's crimes 'one of the worst crimes imaginable'
• •Maxwell was reviewing millions of documents on a government-provided laptop at MDC Brooklyn
• •Part of case 20 Cr. 330, which resulted in Maxwell's conviction on 5 felony counts in December 2021

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