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Cas6dse@-¢raip 320s Asn tDGcWAEh/ 2021 , RiHDO3AL572ge Page Wof 8 LAW OFFICES OF BOBBI C. STERNHEIA 212-243-1100 * Main 33 West 19th Street - 4th Floor 917-306-6666 * Cell New York, New York 10011 888-587-4737 * Fax bc@sternheimlaw.com April 15, 2021 Honorable Alison J. Nathan United States District Judge United States Courthouse 40 Foley Square New York, NY 10007 Re: United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell S2 20 Cr. 330 (AJN) Dear Judge Nathan: We write in reply to the government’s April 9th letter opposing a trial continuance. The defense has been steadfastly and diligently preparing for a July 12 trial based on the original indictment, a date set on the condition that there would be no superseding indictment adding substantive charges. The recently filed superseding indictment directly contravenes that agreement and adds two new charges which vastly expand the relevant time period from a four- year period in the 1990s to an eleven-year period stretching from 1994 to 2004. These additions significantly alter the scope of the government’s case and necessarily shift the focus of the defense’s trial preparation. Instead of being focused on mounting a defense to the allegations of the three accusers from the 1990s, as we have been doing, the defense will now have to spend considerable time and resources investigating allegations of new conduct in a completely different time period involving numerous additional witnesses, and with all of the difficulties that COVID restrictions still place on a meaningful defense investigation. We do not want to postpone the trial but have no choice but to ask for a continuance. The government bears responsibility for this need, having filed a late-breaking superseding indictment based on a witness who has been known to the government since the Florida DOJ-OGR-00020307