A routine discovery cover letter from the U.S. Attorney's Office to Ghislaine Maxwell at MDC Brooklyn, transmitting witness materials and discovery documents for her federal criminal case.

This document is a standard legal correspondence dated October 26, 2021, from U.S. Attorney Damian Williams of the Southern District of New York to Ghislaine Maxwell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. The letter accompanied witness materials and discovery evidence being provided to Maxwell as part of her federal sex trafficking prosecution (Case No. 20 Cr. 330). This was sent approximately one month before her trial commenced on November 29, 2021. Maxwell was ultimately convicted on five of six counts on December 29, 2021, and later sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Key Highlights

• •Standard discovery transmittal letter from federal prosecutors to the defendant
• •Signed by U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, who later called Maxwell's crimes 'one of the worst crimes imaginable' after her conviction
• •Maxwell's federal inmate registration number was 02879-509
• •Sent one month before trial began in November 2021

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