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Epstein Files: Justice Department Asks Supreme Court to Uphold Ghislane Maxwell's Sentence | Crime Alert 6AM 07.16.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news. Now I'm Drew Nelson.
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  Speaker 1: Yet more scrutiny on the Jeffrey Epstein case. The Justice
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  Speaker 1: Department urging the Supreme Court to deny Glen Maxwell's appeal.
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  Speaker 1: On Monday, federal lawyers asked the court to leave her
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  Speaker 1: sex trafficking conviction in place, the request coming as pressure
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  Speaker 1: grows over how the DOJ has handled the Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 1: case files. Sixty three year old Maxwell is serving twenty
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  Speaker 1: years in prison. The New York jury found her guilty
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one on five charges, including sex trafficking
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  Speaker 1: of a minor and conspiracy. Her release is set for
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirty seven. She's currently being held in Tallahassee, Florida.
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  Speaker 1: In her appeal, Maxwell argued that the case should be
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  Speaker 1: thrown out. She said she was protected under Epstein's two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and seven plea deal. She also claimed the statute
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  Speaker 1: of limitations had run out. The Second Court rejected her arguments,
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  Speaker 1: but she told the Supreme Court that different courts have
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  Speaker 1: ruled differently on the issue. She said justices should step
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  Speaker 1: in to clarify her. Lawyer, David Oscar Marcus, took aim
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  Speaker 1: at President quote. He's known as the ultimate deal maker,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm confident that he would agree that the government
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  Speaker 1: should uphold its promises. Marcus went on to say it
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  Speaker 1: was quote particularly unjust for Maxwell to stay in prison
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  Speaker 1: over a quote broken promise from the government. The DOJ
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  Speaker 1: filing comes after it told the public there was no
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  Speaker 1: new information in Epstein's case. Some reports claim Congress may
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  Speaker 1: call on Maxwell to testify. Sources say she is open
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  Speaker 1: to it. Her lawyer did not reply to METIA requests
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  Speaker 1: for comment. More Crime and Justice news after this, A
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  Speaker 1: man camping in Idaho is mistaken for Travis Decker, the
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  Speaker 1: man accused of killing his three daughters, triggering a massive
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement response. The man named Nick was camping in
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  Speaker 1: Bear Creek on July fifth when someone thought he looked
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  Speaker 1: like Travis Decker. Your instinct isn't to think that was me.
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  Speaker 1: So my first thought was, oh my god, we spent
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  Speaker 1: the night next to a murder. That is it's rightening,
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  Speaker 1: that's Nick. On Idaho's six News. Decker, of course, wanted
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  Speaker 1: for the murder of his three daughters. In Washington, officers
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  Speaker 1: question him for thirty minutes. They examined his tattoos, glasses, hat, beard,
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  Speaker 1: shirt and earrings. He was eventually cleared. Decker, aged thirty two,
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  Speaker 1: is still missing. He served in the Army from twenty
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  Speaker 1: thirteen to twenty twenty one and has survival training. Police
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  Speaker 1: say he killed Peyton, Evelyn and Olivia during a court
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  Speaker 1: ordered visit on May thirtieth. Their bodies were found on
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  Speaker 1: June second at a campsite in Shelan County. They had
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  Speaker 1: zip ties and plastic bags on their heads. Cause of
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  Speaker 1: death listed as asphyxiation. Decker's truck was found nearby with
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  Speaker 1: two bloody handprints. Google searches from his phone showed he
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  Speaker 1: looked up quote how to relocate to Canada and quote
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  Speaker 1: jobs Canada. Decker's ex wife, Whitney, says she wants him
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  Speaker 1: found quote dead or alive. He is white, five eight,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred ninety pounds, black hair, brown eyes, and tattoos,
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  Speaker 1: but he may have changed his looks. A twenty thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars reward is being offered. Anyone with tips should call
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred three three one two. An Indianapolis mother is
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  Speaker 1: charged with trying to sell her baby for sex. Morgan
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  Speaker 1: d Stapp, thirty two years old, was arrested on July eighth.
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  Speaker 1: She's accused of offering her seven month old daughter for
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  Speaker 1: abuse in exchange for four hundred dollars. The FBI started
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  Speaker 1: looking into her case last November. Snapchat reported messages from
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  Speaker 1: her account, one message saying, quote, you can figure for
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  Speaker 1: four hundred dollars. I'll provide my address. I live alone.
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  Speaker 1: She later said her account was hacked. A search warrant
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  Speaker 1: found seven thousand messages from her account over three days.
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  Speaker 1: She'd asked people to buy nude photos so she could
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  Speaker 1: quote buy diapers for the baby. She added over four
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  Speaker 1: hundred users during that time. She's being held on a
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  Speaker 1: two hundred thousand dollars bond, with her first court date
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  Speaker 1: set for Friday. A California farm worker dies after falling
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  Speaker 1: from a greenhouse roof during a chaotic immigration raid. Himei
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  Speaker 1: a Lanise, aged fifty seven, died two days after falling
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  Speaker 1: thirty feet during a federal raid at Glasshouse Farms near Camereo.
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  Speaker 1: His family said he broke his neck and skull and
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  Speaker 1: lost a lot of blood. Doctors found no brain activity.
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  Speaker 1: His wife came from Mexico to say goodbye, and his
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  Speaker 1: family chose to take him off life support at that time.
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  Speaker 1: Alanie had worked there for ten years. He always sent
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  Speaker 1: money to his daughter and wife in Mitua Khan, Her
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  Speaker 1: niece wrote on GoFundMe, quote, they took one of our
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  Speaker 1: family members. We need justice. The fundraiser has collected over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty four thousand dollars. The raid began
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  Speaker 1: early Thursday at Glasshouse sites in Camerao and Carpenteria. Federal
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  Speaker 1: agents and National Guard troops carried out search warrants. DHS
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  Speaker 1: said they arrested three hundred and nineteen people and rescued
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  Speaker 1: fourteen miners from forced labor. Agents wore helmets and camouflage
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  Speaker 1: as protesters clashed with law enforcement outside the property. Smoke
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  Speaker 1: bombs were used. One protester fired a gun during the raid.
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  Speaker 1: Alanis called his family and said he was hiding. They
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  Speaker 1: believed he fell while running from agents, the DHS officials said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: although he was not being pursued by law enforcement. This
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  Speaker 1: individual climbed up to the roof of a greenhouse and
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  Speaker 1: fell thirty feet. For US citizen and were also arrested.
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  Speaker 1: During the protests, United farm Workers said some US citizens
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  Speaker 1: were forced to delete photos from their phones. Glasshouse Farms
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  Speaker 1: says they followed the law. President Trump praised the raids.
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  Speaker 1: Governor Gavin Newsom of California called them chaos, fear and terror.
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  Speaker 1: DHS says the investigation is still ongoing. At least ten
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  Speaker 1: migrant children were found at Glasshouse Farms. A jury orders
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  Speaker 1: a Georgia hotel to pay forty million dollars to a
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  Speaker 1: sex trafficking survivor, including thirty million dollars punitive damages. The woman,
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  Speaker 1: known as JG, was sixteen when she was trafficked at
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  Speaker 1: the United Inn in Decatur, Georgia. She said she was
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  Speaker 1: raped more than two hundred times in the course of
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  Speaker 1: forty days in twenty eighteen. JG said the hotel let
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  Speaker 1: it happen. Housekeepers clean her room many times a day,
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  Speaker 1: seeing condoms and doing nothing about it. A law alert
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  Speaker 1: with her name and photo even came out while she
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  Speaker 1: was still there and nothing was done. The night manager
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  Speaker 1: had warned the traffickers about police and even helped them
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  Speaker 1: change rooms to avoid being Detective detectives called the hotel
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  Speaker 1: one of the top five sex trafficking spots in the county.
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  Speaker 1: JG says she still has nightmares and flashbacks. This case
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  Speaker 1: is setting a legal precedent, as the verdict is expected
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  Speaker 1: to influence other cases. More trials are scheduled this year,
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  Speaker 1: including one involving a Super eight hotel in Tucker, Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Authority say this is the first civil sex trafficking case
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  Speaker 1: under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act to reach a
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  Speaker 1: jury verdict. For the latest crime and justice news, follow
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