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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 809 _ Filed 08/11/25 Page 2of31 On August 10, 2019, Epstein committed suicide while in pretrial custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (“MCC”). See generally Dkt. 670 at 3-4; Dkt. 785 at 2. On June 29, 2020, a grand jury in this District returned a six-count indictment against Maxwell, alleging that she had facilitated and participated in Epstein’s sexual abuse of multiple minor girls. It charged her with conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371; enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sex acts, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2422 and 2; conspiracy to transport minors with intent to engage in illegal sexual activity, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371; transportation of a minor with intent to engage in illegal sexual activity, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2423(a) and 2; and, in two counts, perjury, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1623. See Dkt. 1 (“Initial Indictment”). It based these charges on Maxwell’s conduct with respect to three minor victims, whom the Government identified pseudonymously. On July 8, 2020, the grand jury returned a superseding indictment that made ministerial corrections. Dkt. 17 (“S1 Indictment”). On March 29, 2021, a different grand jury in this District returned a second superseding indictment. It added two counts, based on a fourth minor victim, to whom it also referred pseudonymously. One charged a sex trafficking conspiracy, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371; the other charged sex trafficking of a minor, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1591(a), (b)(2), and 2. See Dkt. 187 (“S2 Indictment’). The S2 Indictment also broadened the time period of the sexual abuse crimes, originally alleged to span 1994 to 1997, to span 1994 to 2004. B. Trial Trial commenced on November 29, 2021, before the Honorable Alison J. Nathan, to whom this case was then assigned, and a jury, on six counts in the S2 Indictment—all but the DOJ-OGR-00015134