Mega Edition: Ghislaine Maxwell And Her Failed Attempts To Seal Information (3/19/26)

0:00Alright, let's jump into this article from ABC News, and let's see what author James Hill has to say. Headline. Judge denies Golan Maxwell's request for private juror screening. I mean, they live in this fantasy world where they think that anything that they want, they're gonna get. And up until recently, that's the case, right? But now, in this case, Golan Maxwell and her team are learning, that's not how we're rocking anymore. So all of your technicalities, your loopholes, your PS, that shit's dying on the vine. A federal judge on Thursday denied requests from Golan Maxwell, the accused accomplice, co-conspirator, general all around scumbag, fellow child abuser, and bipedal serpent, of deceased sex offender, pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, to have prospective jurors for her criminal trial question privately. Outside the view of the public and the press, and to keep a jerry questionnaire under

1:04seal. Maxwell's attorneys had argued that the extraordinary measures were necessary to effectively screen for potential bias and for exposure to a tsunami of publicity about the high-profile sex trafficking case. I mean, wow, breaking news, I don't know where you're gonna find somebody who is not biased against alleged child traffickers, child abusers, and co-vorters of people like Jeffrey Epstein. Pretty hard not to find people that aren't biased, I guess you'd have to go to New York High Society to find those people, right? I wonder what Alan Dershowitz is doing. Think Leon Black wants to sit on the jerry? I mean, that's how ludicrous these people are. I'm sure that Golan Maxwell's team is pining for that. Let's get us some high society individuals on the jerry, that way we can get ourselves off. Obviously hyperbole from me there, but what does that even mean? No, everyone is biased against people who are children, except other people who are children.

2:09So good luck, I mean, good luck. But the fact that Judge Nathan smacked them down here and said, not the public's gonna see the process, the public is gonna see what's going on here, and none of your winging or gnashing of the teeth is going to make a difference. This case amplifies the likelihood that jurors will be more apprehensive and constrained to respond openly and honestly in an open court within earshot of other jurors, members of the public, and the media. Maxwell Attorney Bobby Sternham wrote in a court filing last week. I mean, look, I get it, right? Try to do that for your client, and Maxwell's team had to try and make this move. Here's the problem, and this is what I've been pointing out from the very beginning, and I have really not too many other people are talking about it. The fact of the matter is this, have you heard any of her lawyers come out and talk about

3:09her innocence? All they've talked about is her conditions in jail, the technicalities, the media, the members of the public, they're trying to set it up for the appeal. That's all they're doing, they know they're cooked, they have zero shot at this trial. There's not much I'm sure about in this world, but I'm pretty sure that they have zero shot at this trial, and you can see that with the way her team is behaving, the way they're going about her defense, and the way they're going balls to the wall with the technicalities and the loopholes. They understand, these aren't stupid people, these lawyers, they understand that if they get into a courtroom, and Maxwell gets, you know, a cross-examined, by Alice and Mo, it's going to be an absolute disaster. So what do you do? Try not to go to trial in the first place, right? And that's certainly what they're up to. They don't want to go to trial, folks, no way, no how.

4:15The proposal from Maxwell's defense team, which federal prosecutors opposed, would have been a departure from typical procedure in the Manhattan federal court where her trial is scheduled. In most instances, a judge conducts screenings of groups of prospective jurors in open court after consulting with prosecutors and defense counsel about the questions to be posed. And if this is good for the goose, good for the gander. She's always expecting some kind of special treatment, and once again, whenever I hear about her and special treatment, I just think about Khalif Browder. And any sort of empathy I had for Maxwell goes right out the window. I don't care about you're sitting in your jail cell, how bad, how rough on you, can't go to your parties, how terrible, no empathy for her. In court filings last week, prosecutors contended that Maxwell had presented no persuasive reason to depart from the well-established practice.

5:18Absolutely. If everybody else goes about it this way, and everybody else has to go about it this way, so does Maxwell, breaking news, Golan Maxwell, breaking news, Maxwell family, you're not in London anymore, you're in the fucking United States of America, and you're going to pay the price. The party is over for you people. The court should ask most questions in open court, and ask sensitive questions, such as those that relate to sexual abuse and media exposure, at Sidebar, wrote Assistant US Attorney Allison Moe, and that's the procedure that they usually use, right? So why should it be changed here? Well, this is the first case ever where there's sensitive material? Of course not. There's procedure for all of this. But Maxwell thinks she's a bobbit off, folks. She's better than everybody, breaking news, baloney sandwich eater, you're not. Enjoy your stay at the courtesy of the American taxpayer.

6:23But Maxwell's lawyers argue those conventional procedures are inadequate to ferret out potential bias and prejudice because of the sensitive nature of the charges and the intense negative media coverage about Maxwell and Epstein in every conceivable form. Well, yeah, that's what happens, okay? I hope this is a warning shot over the bow to the rest of these fucking disgusting people. We're not going to tolerate your bullshit anymore. We're paying attention now. You want to let's locked up in our houses for 19 months? Well, guess what? Time to reap what you sow. Negative media coverage. That's usually what happens when you're running a human trafficking ring that abuses children and women, just saying. The negative publicity has been so pervasive, vitriolic, and extreme that Miss Maxwell has been demonized in the press during a row. No, wrong. She's been demonized by her own actions.

7:23Nice try to, you know, refurbish her image here, but that's not going to work. Zero chance that's working. The coverage has been this way because they have avoided justice for so long and people have had enough. Even their pals in the legacy media are forced to report on it now. And I know that much must stick in their crawl when they have to do it, but, you know, private and individual questioning would encourage a potential, potential jurors to answer questions more completely and honestly because the jurors would not be influenced by or influenced, the answers given by fellow jurors, or fear and embarrassment and giving an honest response to her. What? All of a sudden, she's the advocate of all these jurors, oh, I don't want them to feel uncomfortable. This is your shut up, alright? So glad that Judge Nathan told them to kick rocks here. Such a ridiculous ask, folks, an absolutely ridiculous ask.

8:27Always about the special treatment for this lady, and at the same time, crying that she's being treated so bad. US District Judge Alison Nathan, who's overseeing Maxwell's trial, also denied her a quest to allow Maxwell's lawyers and prosecutors to question each potential juror individually for up to three minutes after the court concludes its inquiries. The initial jury pool for the case is estimated to include about 600 people who will fill out jury questionnaires in early November, Nathan said, she expects to reduce the pool to about 50 to 60 people before she questions each prospective juror in person. The final panel will consist of 12 jurors and six alternates. So this is pretty much standard operating procedure, right? They weed down the pool of jurors, a nice big pool of 600 people, right? That gives you a nice wide range of people, then they whittle that down to 50 or 60, then

9:27she questions those 50 or 60, and they decide who the 12 jurors are going to be in conjunction with the defense and the prosecution. So I'm very interested to watch this process unfold again. I'm not like somebody who usually follows the procedures, right? So this is all kind of new to me as far as, you know, the nuances of all of this. So it's always nice to learn something along the way. Late Wednesday, the reporters committee for Freedom of the Press and a coalition of 17 media organizations registered objections to Maxwell's proposed secrecy surrounding the jury selection process. So the news media obviously is is dead set on having this stuff be open to the public. And it's nice to see that, you know, the media is finally paying attention here instead of trying to, you know, run cover for their friends, but it's funny that ABC News is one

10:32of these outlets that was arguing for this considering they had a Virginia Roberts interview that they squashed. So talk about it. The questioning is a critical stage of criminal proceedings. And the public interest in favor of access is correspondingly weighty. RCFP attorney Katie Townsend wrote in a letter to the U.S. District Judge, Alison Nathan, who's overseeing Maxwell's case. The media coalition, which includes ABC News, argued that a proposed jury questionnaire that was filed under seal last week by Maxwell's attorneys without government objection should be made part of the public record. Maxwell's lawyers contended the documents should remain sealed to avoid media coverage that may prejudice the jury selection process. So again, this is just all the back and forth that you see in cases like this between the lawyers just at a higher degree because of the level of this case.

11:33So they're right now as we speak. I guarantee these lawyers are going back and forth behind the scenes trying to hammer out the particulars. I mean, we're only a little more than a month out from the trial. So things are going to start moving a lot quicker now. Given jurors the opportunity to view the questionnaire before they come to court to fill it out is like a take home exam and they can fill out all the answers and do all the research and decide what answers they want to put on those papers. Sternum said during the hearing Thursday, I think there's an opportunity for people motivated to want to sit on this jury for a variety of reasons. That's valid. I, you know, what? I got to give her, you know, the tip of the cap there, that is a valid concern. If I was being tried, I'd be worried about that too. We all know how people like to insert themselves and stuff like this. Everybody wants to be the hero.

12:34Everybody wants to be, you know, the superstar of the show and there's a lot of crazy people out there. So I could see that as one valid concern, right? But not valid enough for me to jump on board with them if I was the judge. Nathan Rule that Maxwell generalized concerns about media coverage, we're not sufficient to overcome the public's first amendment right of access to court proceedings, including the jury selection process. Hallelujah. Imagine that, the Constitution being upheld, holy shit, what country am I in? The public has a right to access the first amendment, okay? A lot of times we forget about that and we forget that our constitutional rights are being trampled on on a regular basis these days. The party's sole rationale for sealing the submission is to avoid at a general level

13:37media coverage that may prejudice the jury selection process, Nathan said. But jurors are sworn to give true and complete answers to the questionnaire. If a juror is being dishonest, we will smoke that out, the judge added. So according to Judge Nathan, they're going to smoke out anybody who is potentially up here playing games. And according to her, they're going to have the proper jury pool ready to go. Maxwell 59 has pleaded not guilty to charges that she assisted, facilitated and contributed to Epstein's abuse of four minor girls from 1994 to 2004. Prosecutors alleged Maxwell befriended the young girls and helped to put them at ease, knowing that they would eventually be sexually abused by Epstein. And she took part, okay? Let's be real. According to the survivors, not only was she a facilitator, she also took part in some of the abuse, okay? Let's be very frank about all of this.

14:42Maxwell's lawyers have argued in court filings that federal prosecutors pursue charges against her as a substitute for Epstein, who died by suicide in New York, what? Who died by suicide, allegedly, in a New York federal jail in 2019, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Jury selection is set to begin in Maxwell's case on November 15th, with the trial schedule to open two weeks later. Oh well, there you have it, folks, it's heating up. We're getting closer to this day. We're getting closer to seeing Maxwell in court, and we're getting closer to justice. And as I've said many times, that train has left the station. It's barreling down the tracks and heading directly for Galen Maxwell. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that at bobbykopucci at protonmail.com. You can also find me on Twitter, at bobby-underscore-capu-cci.

15:52All of the links that go with this episode can be found in the description box. All right, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Hope everybody's having a great Saturday morning out there, and hopefully the rest of your weekend is even better. Today, we're going to talk a little bit more about Galen Maxwell and the new court filings that her and her team are trying to keep under wraps. Now we all know the situation with juror number 50 at this point, and we all know that team Maxwell is pushing hard for a mistrial. Now to go along with all of that, they have these new filings that they want to keep under seal because according to them, they don't want juror number 50 to get any information that he might not have. They want to make sure that they're not making it easy for him if in the event he gets prosecuted or what have you.

16:53Now the prosecutors on the flip side of that, they're calling for transparency, which is crazy considering the federal government doesn't even know how to spell transparency usually. But at least in this case, the prosecutors are saying, no, we don't want this stuff under seal, and they're challenging the filings by the defense. So it's going to come down to judge Nathan making a ruling on what's going to be sealed, what's not going to be sealed, and what's going to be for public consumption. Now you all know where I stand on this. I think everything should be for public consumption. Anything that has been put to rest, if you will, stuff court documents about Jeffrey Epstein or people who might be dead or arrested, whatever, all of that stuff should be public knowledge. It should be open for the public to consume and there should be no transparency whatsoever when it comes to the Jeffrey Epstein criminal enterprise. Unless, of course, that we're keeping, you know, under wraps the name of people who were

17:58abused, then of course, you don't want that stuff out there. I'm talking about information about those who were involved in the crimes. There should be no blanket of secrecy. There should be no, there should be no protection. It should be all transparent, right? Once these people are outed, once, you know, this case hits the court, I don't want to hear about, oh, let's keep this under wraps anymore. Enough of that. This is not a national security issue. We don't have Boris over here from whatever the new version of the security services in Russia trying to figure out what's up with Goliens Maxwell. This is CYA type shit. When they keep things sealed as far as the federal government, like their investigation into what happened into the Jeffrey Epstein's death in the jailhouse, it's not because it's national security. It's because they don't want to have egg on their face. And they know they dropped the ball. And we've experienced that so much here in the Jeffrey Epstein case and the investigation

19:01into what happened. It has been a brick wall, basically, when you're looking for information. And it has to do with Jeffrey Epstein's death, forget about it. But it's just been the way this case has been conducted from the very beginning. So much secrecy. People who should be outed, not being outed. And somehow these people, the so-called elite, continue to be protected. Thankfully, that's starting to change. And more people have had enough. More people like you out there are not buying the bullshit line that's being fed to them. And that's a good thing because there is a massive awakening going on. And I'm not talking about any nonsense about, you know, this conspiracy theory or that. I'm talking about, in general, amongst people around the world, waking up and understanding that the circumstances that we find ourselves in are not good. And when you have people like Jeffrey Epstein and the people protecting him at the very highest levers of control, it's never going to work out well for the rest of us.

20:07So if we can't come together in rally to stand up to people like Jeffrey Epstein and human traffickers, then I don't know what sort of common ground we can find. One thing I will say, though, is throughout this whole entire time I've been researching this case, there have been people from all walks of the political spectrum who have come together and dropped all of their political BS beefs to work to try and bring justice here. And I think that's the proper way forward, right? Common ground. I mean, if we can't find common ground going after people like Epstein, I don't even know what to say. But thankfully, most people who are interested in this case have only one goal in mind, and that is bringing the people who are responsible for these heinous crimes to justice. All right, so we have an article today from Bloomberg headline Maxwell prosecutors oppose keeping new trial request under seal. This article was authored by Patricia Hurtado.

21:12Glenn Maxwell's prosecutor said her request for a new trial based on a juror's disclosure that he was the victim of childhood sexual abuse should be public. A hundred percent, like I just said in the monologue there, honestly, I don't believe that anything should be under seal at this point unless it has to do with privacy for the survivors. If you're named as somebody in this case, a person of interest, somebody was hanging around Epstein, sorry to say, but any kind of privacy that you should be entitled to is out the window. Last month, the British socialite, you mean human trafficker, Patricia Hurtado, that's what she is, a convicted felon, not a socialite, former socialite. Do we call, you know, Charlie Manson, a former construction worker or whatever the hell he did before he killed people or sent people off to kill people? Do we call John Wayne Gacy, the engaging loving clown? No, of course not. Call him a murder or serial killer, a sick fuck, just like Glenn Maxwell.

22:17Filed the request under seal with her lawyer, Christian Everdel, arguing on Tuesday that public disclosure would provide a roadmap for the juror and give him an improper preview of information he shouldn't have. Maxwell's jury was anonymous and the man was only known as juror 50 during the trial. So again, what they're saying is their reasoning for trying to keep this under seal is that it would give juror number 50, Scotty David, kind of an idea of what's going on here and they don't want that to happen, right? They don't want him to be prepared. They don't want his lawyer, Todd Spodeck to be prepared. So they're trying to keep it under seal and under wraps for as long as possible. Prosecutor Maureen Comey on Friday rejected Maxwell's claims as unfounded, arguing that there was no reason for the filings to remain sealed because the material was already made public by the juror when he spoke with the media. Makes sense, right? Dude spoke to the media, gave up the information already, what are you talking about under seal?

23:21It's the deal with all of this sealed nonsense. Now obviously, if you're Galen Maxwell and her team, I could see why they'd want to keep everything sealed. They know that it's a bad look for them no matter what happens. Maybe not in this instance so much, but as far as documentation throughout this whole thing, they knew that it would cast a bad light on their client. So that's why Galen Maxwell and her team fought so hard to keep those documents from the original deposition out of the public light. Thankfully, Judge Presco wasn't having it, and she released a bunch of those documents and still more are on the way. But if it was up to Galen Maxwell and her team, everything would have been kept in the dark, forever. There can be no need to hide from public view a discussion of public materials, Comy said. The defense's suggestion that her defense briefing contains information from some significant investigation into juror 50 is not accurate.

24:22The motion does not contain any significant material that is not otherwise public. So that's Maureen Comy pretty much poo-pooing the idea, telling the court, look, we don't need this to be sealed. We don't need this to be kept under wraps. There's nothing in there that would be considered detrimental. So in our opinion, meaning the prosecution's opinion, we don't want this documentation sealed, which is kind of funny considering Maureen Comy and friends usually love the seal shit. Several media organizations have also urged US District Judge Alison Nathan to unseal the proceedings. Maxwell, who was convicted in December of enticing, grooming, and sexually abusing underage girls with her former boyfriend, Jeffrey Epstein, again, you say right here in this article Mr. Tato, that she was convicted of enticing, grooming, and sexually abusing underage girls, but you still call her a socialite at the beginning, okay, it makes sense.

25:24With her former boyfriend, you mean co-conspirator, fellow child abuser, Jeffrey Epstein, that's what you mean, right? Not our boyfriend. Requested a new trial after the juror told several media outlets that his revelation of past sexual abuse helps weigh other jurors to convict. And again, that's what his statement is, right? That's the way he sees things. Now I wonder if the other jurors see things quite that way. Do they feel like they were swayed by Scotty David, or is this another example of Scotty David wanting to be the hero of the story? While prospective jurors were asked whether they had been victims of sexual abuse, the juror, who identified himself as Scotty David, his first and middle names, told Reuters that he flew through the Jerry questionnaire. And again, just a public service announcement. If you're ever doing Jerry duty or you're called to sit in and be part of a Jerry, probably a good idea to answer all of the questions truthfully, probably a good idea and not to fly through

26:27the questionnaire, like you're taking a ninth grade math test, Abba Daba, the whole way through on your, you know, it's just, it's ridiculous. Say attention, do the right thing and don't try and insert yourself in the story. I just don't understand that whole entire mentality. These people that want to be the story. What you're doing is making things much more difficult on these survivors. If this moron had never came out and spoke all this nonsense to the media, just kept his mouth shut and didn't insert himself, we wouldn't even be talking about this right now. We'd be talking about sentencing, you know, all of the good stuff that comes after a conviction of an animal like Maxwell. But no, Jerry or Jerry number 50, Scottie David decided he'd come out, run his fat yap, and now here we are. So hopefully all of this stuff that they're talking about remains unsealed and ready for public consumption because nobody trusts anything that's going on, right?

27:29Nobody wants to hear about, oh, well, this is under seal or the public can't consume this. That's out of belly full of that. And it's time for the federal government, especially, to just be correct when it comes to Maxwell and Epstein, unseal all the documentation that should be unsealed, everything that pertains to the case because nobody trusts the official narrative from Jeffrey Epstein being killed or dying in prison or jail, I mean, to Epstein being protected by people in intelligence services. Nobody trusts the institutions anymore. And that is the one thing that everybody seems to agree on. He also said he didn't remember such a question, but would have answered honestly if asked. Prosecutors have asked the judge to question the juror, but Nathan hasn't ruled on the request. So again, we're really waiting on Judge Nathan, right? That's what it all comes down to.

28:30She's going to make the decision. She's going to decide if this goes to more of an investigation, if there is a mistrial or whatever it might be, it all is going to rest on what Judge Nathan eventually decides. So we can speculate until that day comes, right? But we don't know what's going on in her head. We don't know which way she's going to land. Hopefully it's on the side of transparency and all of this stuff remains unsealed. But we all know how it works, right? We all know the deal with this kind of thing and how the federal government conducts itself. They will say that there's an active investigation when you try and get information about insert situation here. You know, many times people ran into that, try and get freedom of information acts as far as Jeffrey Epstein's death. What they'll say is, well, this is an ongoing and active investigation. So we can't release any of this information to you.

29:30And that is how the government gets by, right? When you when you file a freedom of information act that all they have to say is up, this is an active investigation can help you. And we see that so often with the federal government. And we have seen that a lot with the Jeffrey Epstein case for sure, especially after this dude's death. Now as far as Maxwell in the situation here, again, I don't really know how this is going to end up. I don't know if Maxwell is going to get a mistrial. I don't know, right? I'm just being honest with you folks. I'm not going to sit here and say, oh, she's not going to get a mistrial. This is over and done with because we don't know. My feeling is that Judge Nathan isn't going to find enough here. I feel that Judge Nathan will eventually take a look at all of this. And I believe that the conviction will stand. Now we can argue until the cows come home about Scotty David and his conversation, right? Was it improper? Wasn't it improper?

30:30And there's a lot to argue there. Do I think that he should be talking to the media after a verdict such as this? No, probably not. But that said, the stipulations didn't state that they weren't allowed to speak to the media. So you know, you can't really blame them there. But for me, it certainly looks like he was less than truthful, right? And if that's the case, then he's an absolute clown. That's really what it comes down to. If you're lying on the jury questionnaire, you're lying to get on the jury because you have an axe to grind or something like that. And it can end up leading to the situation we're in now. And yeah, you're a clown, okay? But I'm very interested to see which way this ends up as far as from a transparency perspective. Because it could tell the tale moving forward as far as what we're going to see unsealed

31:33and what we're going to see kept under wraps. And personally, I want everything dumped. And when Judge Preska was releasing all of those documents, it was very, very helpful to the investigation, to the research, because you can go and cross reference things now, right? It's one thing to hear a report source says it's a whole nother thing when that same exact information is in court filings, right? It brings a lot more weight to it. So one can say whatever they want, but when you say something under oath and it's in court documentation, it brings a whole different feel to it. Because now you have the threat of perjury hanging over your head. Although if you're not truthful, the federal government has the in to who really make your life miserable and hell and believe me, they love to do it. Whenever you're sitting down with the FBI and they're doing one of their 302s, oh, they love to walk people into perjury traps. So it's going to be interesting moving forward to see how this transparency situation breaks

32:36down here and to see what Judge Nathan decides. I'm leaning towards no mistrial. I'm leaning towards this conviction standing. But that said, Maxwell's definitely going to appeal one way or the other. And then this case will get bumped up to the appeals court and they'll have a look and they'll have to say the one thing that Maxwell can't be too happy about, however, is that the same appeals court that's going to get a look at this. Well, Judge Nathan is going to be sitting on that appeals court soon. So she's going to know the case in and out. I'm sure her colleagues will rely on her, you know, a adjudication of this case to get information from her clerks or whatever it might be so they have a full robust idea about what happened. Maxwell and her chances moving forward, I don't think they're very good folks. And to be honest with you, I can't see Glenn Maxwell ever getting out of jail.

33:38I think she's going to serve this whole sentence. And at her age with the years she's facing looks like baloney sandwiches and jailhouse case at Diaz are on the menu for the rest of her life. All right, folks, that's going to do it for this morning's episode. I'll be back later on today at some point with some more. But until then, there's some context episodes coming your way. Hope that everybody has an awesome day. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that at Bobby Capucci at protonmail.com. That's B-O-B-B-Y-C-A-P-U-C-C-I at protonmail.com. You can also find me on Twitter at B-O-B-B-Y underscore C-A-P-U-C-C-I. The link that we discussed can be found in the description box.