{"id":1175736,"date":"2021-12-31T14:35:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T19:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1175736"},"modified":"2021-12-31T14:35:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T19:35:04","slug":"maxwells-brother-ghislaine-a-scapegoat-for-epstein-she-wont-flip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maxwells-brother-ghislaine-a-scapegoat-for-epstein-she-wont-flip\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxwell&#039;s Brother: Ghislaine a &#039;Scapegoat&#039; for Epstein, She Won&#039;t &#039;Flip&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaxwells-brother-ghislaine-a-scapegoat-for-epstein-she-wont-flip%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1175736&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236890741-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">British socialite and convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell has been offered up as a \u201cscapegoat\u201d for deceased millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, her brother has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Maxwell, 65, the son of British media tycoon Robert Maxwell and older brother of now-convicted sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, said that his sister is nothing more than a patsy for the sex crimes against children by Jeffrey Epstein, who allegedly killed himself in a New York prison cell in 2019.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe man who was not on trial and should have been on trial \u2013 but escaped the ability of the prosecution to put him on trial because they lost him on their watch, which everyone has conveniently forgotten about \u2013 could not be tried,\u201d Mr Maxwell <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/ghislaine-maxwell-scapegoated-for-crimes-of-jeffrey-epstein-claims-her-brother-12506738\">said<\/a> in an interview with Sky News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd therefore they had to find someone who could be tried. They chose Ghislaine Maxwell. They were perfectly entitled to do that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the position the defence has taken \u2013 and that I continue to take \u2013 is that she was scapegoated in a process that was flawed from the start and she was not given a fair trial and she has not had justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Maxwell went on to profess that he believes Ghislaine was innocent of the charges levied against her, despite being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/29\/ghislaine-maxwell-found-guilty-in-sex-trafficking-trial\/\">found guilty<\/a> of five of six counts of sexual exploitation and trafficking girls as young as fourteen years old for Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI accept that these accusers were victims of Jeffrey Epstein. What I do not accept is that they were victims of Ghislaine Maxwell,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ghislaine made a \u201ca terrible, terrible judgement about Jeffrey Epstein,\u201d Maxwell said, but added: \u201cThat is not a crime\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ian Maxwell tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joepike?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@joepike<\/a> that his sister has been made a &#8220;scapegoat&#8221; for the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s legal team are planning to launch an appeal after she was found guilty of recruiting underage girls for Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1k7YBY2JTP\">https:\/\/t.co\/1k7YBY2JTP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l1PgxE2vQm\">pic.twitter.com\/l1PgxE2vQm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews\/status\/1476905691378069506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Believing in his sister\u2019s supposed innocence, Ian Maxwell downplayed the idea of her \u201cflipping\u201d on Epstein\u2019s co-conspirators.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe know, because the prosecution has said, that they have never made her any offer and she has never made them any offer,\u201d Maxwell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to change. I don\u2019t know what Ghislaine has to say about anyone else. Her position is that she did not participate or was aware of these terrible activities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSo her logical position must be that\u2019s to be continued, and therefore why is she suddenly going to start producing names and who knows what? So I don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the trial, high profile figures on both sides of the Atlantic were alleged to have travelled on the millionaire pedophile\u2019s infamous private jet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/29\/ghislaine-maxwell-found-guilty-in-sex-trafficking-trial\/\">including<\/a> Britain\u2019s Prince Andrew, and former American presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that many more prominent people were connected to Epstein, however, the future of any other potential prosecutions is currently unclear.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>This week, Prince Andrew, who is currently facing civil litigation in the United States, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/prince-andrew-accuser-cannot-sue-because-she-isnt-in-us\/\">filed a motion to dismiss<\/a> the suit from Virginia Giuffre&nbsp;on the grounds that she no longer resides in America and therefore the court should not have jurisdiction in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Giuffre claims that the member of the British Royal Family sexually abused her at the age of 17 while she was being trafficked by Epstein. Prince Andrew has consistently proclaimed his innocence,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/11\/15\/prince-andrew-i-have-no-recollection-of-ever-meeting-epstein-victim-who-named-him-in-underage-sex-ring\/\">saying<\/a>&nbsp;in 2019: \u201cIt didn\u2019t happen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In October, London\u2019s Metropolitan Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/11\/no-further-action-uk-police-drop-jeffery-epstein-sex-probe-against-prince-andrew\/\">announced<\/a> that it would not pursue any criminal action against the Duke of York after reviewing evidence provided in the civil suit from&nbsp;Giuffre.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">U.S. Prosecutor Says Prince Andrew Has Provided \u2018Zero Cooperation\u2019 in Jeffrey Epstein Probe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S248bF1XrS\">https:\/\/t.co\/S248bF1XrS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1221856395269566464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British socialite and convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell has been offered up as a \u201cscapegoat\u201d for deceased millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, her brother has claimed. Ian Maxwell, 65, the son &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}