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Case 22-1426, Document “Taste | 3475900, Page142 of 208 | A138 | Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 207 Filed 04/16/21 Page 1 of 34 USDC SDNY DOCUMENT | UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT a ee SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK 6 CT United States of America, a 20-cr-330 (AJN) Ghislaine Maxwell, OPINION & ORDER Defendant. ALISON J. NATHAN, District Judge: In June 2020, a grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging Ghislaine Maxwell with facilitating the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of minor victims from around 1994 to 1997. The Government filed a first (S1) superseding indictment shortly thereafter, which contained only small, ministerial corrections. The $1 superseding indictment included two counts of enticement or transportation of minors to engage in illegal sex acts in violation of the Mann Act and two counts of conspiracy to commit those offenses. It also included two counts of perjury in connection with Maxwell’s testimony in a civil deposition. Trial is set to begin on July 12, 2021. Maxwell filed twelve pretrial motions seeking to dismiss portions of the $1 superseding indictment, suppress evidence, and compel discovery. After the parties fully briefed those motions, a grand jury returned a second (S2) superseding indictment adding a sex trafficking count and another related conspiracy count. This Opinion resolves all of Maxwell’s currently pending pretrial motions other than those seeking to suppress evidence, which the Court will resolve in due course. The motions, and this Opinion, deal exclusively with the $1 superseding indictment and do not resolve any issues DOJ-OGR-00020760