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Ghislaine Maxwell transferred to NYC custody to face sex abuse charges<\/p><\/div>\n
Maxwell faces a judge on Tuesday<\/h3>\n
By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News<\/p>\n
Lawyers for\u00a0Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>, the British socialite who was best buddies with convicted sex-offender\u00a0Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, are arguing she be released from lock-up due to health risks stemming from COVID-19.<\/p>\n Maxwell was arrested on July\u00a02 in\u00a0New Hampshire<\/a>\u00a0on charges she conspired with Epstein to sexually abuse minors and then lied to\u00a0prosecutors about it.<\/p>\n Maxwell’s lawyers filed a memo Friday with the court opposing the government’s motion for detention. They claim health risks associated with\u00a0coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0and a $5 million bond should be enough to let Maxwell wait out her trial at home.<\/p>\n Maxwell’s lawyers also claimed the government has not met its burden under bail reform laws to hold her in detention.<\/p>\n “The proposed bail conditions are consistent with those approved\u00a0by courts in the Circuit in other high-profiles cases, and should be approved here,” her lawyer wrote.<\/p>\n Maxwell, who has a bail hearing on Tuesday, was arrested in Bradford, New Hampshire. She had been living in her million-dollar mansion which features 156 acres of mountainside property, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n She is facing six charges for conspiring with Epstein in a multi-state sex trafficking ring involving three unnamed minors between 1991 and 1997.<\/p>\n If convicted, she would face 35 years in prison.<\/p>\n