A routine administrative letter from the U.S. Attorney's Office providing Ghislaine Maxwell with the password to access discovery materials on a disc while she was detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

This is a brief procedural letter dated October 29, 2021, sent by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York to Ghislaine Maxwell at MDC Brooklyn. The letter, signed by Assistant United States Attorneys on behalf of U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, provides Maxwell with the password needed to access a disc containing discovery materials and Government Exhibits pertinent to her criminal case (United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell, 20 Cr. 330). This is standard legal correspondence during criminal proceedings, sent approximately one month before Maxwell's trial commenced on November 29, 2021.

Key Highlights

• •Routine procedural document from federal prosecutors to defendant
• •Sent one month before Maxwell's trial began in November 2021
• •Password-protected discovery materials were standard practice under protective orders in the case

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