Attorney General William Barr vowed swift justice shortly after Epstein's death, but the wheels of justice were rather sluggish, taking 11 months to arrest Ghislaine Maxwell.
According to the Department of Justice, Maxwell "is charged with one count of enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, one count of conspiracy to entice a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, one count of transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, one count of conspiracy to transport a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, and two counts of perjury, each of which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.”
Now the wheels of justice appear to be misaligned.
Maxwell faces a maximum sentence of 35 years for the charges against her. Strangely enough, Maxwell wasn't indicted for the sex trafficking of minors, which carries a 15-year to life sentence, even though numerous Epstein victims, including Annie Farmer, Jennifer Araoz, Jane Doe, Virginia Guiffre, among others, have accused Maxwell of sex trafficking them as minors. So, Maxwell’s indictments are dubious.
The New York Times provided the Justice Department with six individuals—Ghislaine Maxwell, Sarah Kellan, Leslie Groff, Adriana Ross, Nadia Marcinkova, and Haley Robson—who were complicit in Epstein’s pedophilic crimes. But only Maxwell has been indicted.
The Justice Department sat on a mountain of evidence that implicated Maxwell in child trafficking, but, yet, its belated indictments never charged her with child trafficking. The Justice Department is currently sitting on a mountain of evidence that reportedly implicates Sarah Kellan, Leslie Groff, Adriana Ross, Nadia Marcinkova, and Haley Robson as co-conspirators in child trafficking.
Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre’s accounts of being molested have withstood the ire of adversarial defense lawyers in civil litigation, when she named the following men as perpetrators: Alan Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, billionaire Glenn Dubin, former US senator George Mitchell, modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, billionaire Les Wexner, and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak.
If the Department of Justice plans on indicting the powerful men whose names have surfaced as perpetrators, then logic dictates that it would require a number of witnesses—not exclusively Maxwell. So why hasn’t the Justice Department, in the very least, indicted the other Epstein procurers?