December 4, 2025 • 11 mins
Ghislaine Maxwell has initiated a habeas corpus petition in a last-ditch attempt to challenge her imprisonment, signaling a dramatic escalation in her ongoing legal fight. The filing reveals that Maxwell plans to represent herself as she petitions the court for release, an unusual move that underscores both the desperation and the high-stakes maneuvering behind the scenes. While the petition itself has not yet laid out specific legal grounds, the timing is strategic: Maxwell is making this push just as scrutiny around the Epstein network is intensifying and new transparency measures threaten to expose previously sealed material tied to her case.
At the same time, the Justice Department is moving to unseal grand jury records and related documents under newly mandated transparency rules, a shift that Maxwell fiercely opposes. Her legal team argues that releasing these materials could jeopardize any future appeal or post-conviction litigation she may pursue. Advocates for survivors, however, view her filing as yet another attempt to stall public accountability and keep critical details of the Epstein network shielded from view. The collision between Maxwell’s habeas corpus bid and the government’s unsealing push sets the stage for a pivotal legal showdown—one that could influence not only her own fate but the broader public reckoning surrounding Epstein’s crimes.
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At the same time, the Justice Department is moving to unseal grand jury records and related documents under newly mandated transparency rules, a shift that Maxwell fiercely opposes. Her legal team argues that releasing these materials could jeopardize any future appeal or post-conviction litigation she may pursue. Advocates for survivors, however, view her filing as yet another attempt to stall public accountability and keep critical details of the Epstein network shielded from view. The collision between Maxwell’s habeas corpus bid and the government’s unsealing push sets the stage for a pivotal legal showdown—one that could influence not only her own fate but the broader public reckoning surrounding Epstein’s crimes.
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bobbycapucci@protonmail.com
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Ghislaine Maxwell will plea for prison release, new court filing says
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. Glenn Maxwell has announced that she is filing
a petition with the court to attempt to get released
from prison. And the type of petition that she filed
is called a habeas corpus petition, and it's pretty much
the last stop for Glenn Maxwell. We all know that
(00:21):
she has failed at every turn to get released from prison,
whether that's the appeal or the mistrial or anything else
she's tried. We know that that's all failed, and we
know that it was never going to be successful. There's
not a court in the land, as we've seen, that's
going to take a look at the evidence that's been
presented against Glaine Maxwell and let her out of prison.
(00:43):
Not a court in the land. So has this really
all just been about Glayne Maxwell trying to get out
of prison or is there something else bubbling beneath the
surface when it comes to Maxwell and the Trump administration.
In this episode, that's what we're going to talk about.
And to start out, we have an article from USA
Today and the headline Blaine Maxwell will plead for a
(01:04):
prison release. New court filing says this article was authored
by Terry Collins. Glene Maxwell, the close associate you mean,
co conspirator and convicted accomplice of the late disgraced financier
and accused sex offender, not accused an actual sex offender
went to prison for it. Please learn the story, intends
to file a petition asking a judge to release her
(01:27):
from prison. In a court filing to US District Court
Judge Paul Engelmeyer on Wednesday, December third, Maxwell's attorneys did
not provide specific details on what legal grounds she would
argue in her habeas corpus petition seeking her prison release. Well,
that's because it's not real. I mean it's real in
the sense it's going to get filed, but they know
(01:47):
they're not gonna be victorious. The whole entire idea is
to keep things gummed up to make sure things aren't
released as far as grand jury documents or anything to
do with Glenn Maxwell that might connect the dots. That's
the whole entire motivation here. For her and for Trump,
Maxwell knew she was never getting out of prison. So
(02:08):
what's the next best thing? Try and better your surroundings, right,
go to a better facility, And how do you do that? Well,
you call the Trump administration and say you're ready to
play ball. But what she meant by playing ball was
not giving up names or giving up people that might
have been involved. What she meant was by protecting the administration.
(02:29):
That's what she meant by playing ball. The court filing
also states that Maxwell plans to file her petition pro say,
meaning she would represent herself and pursue her early release
without the help of a lawyer. Well, I wonder where
Oscar David Marcus is. My guess is this is all
part of the plan. So Maxwell can argue later on
(02:50):
that she had no idea what she was doing, and
she wasn't represented by legal counsel, so she needs another
crack at it, That's my guess. Now, do I know
that that's what's going to happen. Of course not. But
when you're dealing with these people, there's always five moves
behind the one they're making. I mean, all of a sudden,
Glenn Maxwell isn't gonna have legal representation. Okay, I guess.
(03:10):
Maxwell's petition also comes almost two months after the US
Supreme Court rejected the appeal of her conviction and sentenced Well,
that's because all of it was just. Anyone telling you
that Gallainne Maxwell caught a raw deal is brain dead.
They must be suffering from CTE from too many hits
to the dome piece, because there's no way you could
(03:31):
look at the evidence and say that Glainne Maxwell got
a raw deal. Now, does that mean she's the only
one that should be in prison? Of course not. That's
not what I'm saying. But don't try that. What about ism?
Bullshit with me. Everybody needs to pay up, pay up,
pay up, including Glenn Maxwell. So there is no scenario
on Earth where Glayne Maxwell should be released from prison,
(03:52):
zero chances that should ever happen. It should even be
a discussion. And the only reason that it is a
discussion is because Trump knows it helps them. If he
had nothing to gain here, do you really think he'd
be engaging in this kind of back and forth with Maxwell,
sending the Deputy Attorney General to have a conversation with her,
and then moving her to Camp Brian. None of that's normal.
(04:13):
Nothing about this is normal, not from the start to
the finish to now, no answers, nobody telling us what's
going on, why she was transferred. The whole last thing
smells like a corpse rotting in the sun. She is
currently in a minimum security women's prison in Texas after
being transferred from a federal prison in Florida. The move
(04:33):
came shortly after she was interviewed about Epstein by Deputy
Attorney General Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump's former defense attorney.
And can you imagine how bad Todd Blanche did in
that interview. It was one of the most pathetic things
I've ever seen. Imagine having Golain Maxwell in front of you,
having all the information that the Justice Department has, and
(04:54):
then going easy on her the way Todd Blanche did.
There's no excuse for that. There's no explanation for that.
Of course, they were trying to help her out and
guide her along. Maxwell should be charged for perjury for
lying to Todd Blanche during this deposition. You can't have
a profit session and then bullshit the Deputy Attorney General.
If you or I lied to an FBI agent, We're
(05:16):
going to go to prison, buck Layne. Maxwell. She can
do whatever she wants, obviously, So once again, tell me,
how is any of this stuff normal? None of it is.
Nothing that's happening when it comes to Maxwell, is even
close to being status quo or the way things usually work.
And I think one of the most maddening parts is
(05:36):
the silence that's coming from the administration. People have legitimate questions,
and the administration acts like none of this has taken place,
like they don't have an obligation to be forthcoming as
to why they moved one of the most notorious traffickers
of all time to a prison camp. How about some
basic answers, that's all, And you can save the whole
(05:57):
entire national security bullshit for somebody else. This stuff right
here has nothing to do with national security and everything
to do with the fact that there's a cover up
taking place right in front of our eyes. The court
filing also came on the same day that House Democrats
on the Oversight Committee released never before seen photos and
videos from a private Caribbean island that Epstein once owned.
(06:19):
The Justice Department has until December nineteenth to release more
records from its files under a law Congress pasted in November.
And look, I have my doubts about what we're going
to get. Like I've told you from the jump, I'm
sure they're going to give us something. Right they have
to by law. But what is it going to entel.
Is it going to be just a bunch of black
blocks on pages, everything adapted, or are they going to
(06:42):
do their job correctly and give the American people the
glimpse behind the curtain that they deserve. Unfortunately, I highly
doubt that they respect you enough to give you this information. Instead,
they're going to keep the bullshit going. They're going to
keep the gas lighting going, and the cover up is
going to keep growing. But at this rate going to
be too many moving parts, and something's going to break
(07:03):
down at some point, and when it does, there's a
chance that this whole entire thing gets exposed for what
it is. The House Oversight Committee did not immediately return
USA Today's request for a comment about Maxwell's core filing. Well,
I don't think they have anything to say about it.
What would they say about it. There's nothing that they
have to do with that, right. Maxwell isn't coming in
(07:25):
to talk to them. She already said so. So I
think that Congress really has no light to stand on,
if you will, when it comes to Glenn Maxwell and
forcing her to do anything. Continuous controversy over Epstein's criminal
case files have tormented Trump. Epstein and Maxwell were friends
of Trump in the nineties and early two thousands, and
of course when Trump's asked about Maxwell or Epstein, he
(07:47):
always has amnesia. Right, they were never really close. He
didn't really know them, and what he did know about him,
he really disliked them. Has there ever been somebody who
could master revisionism the way Donald Trump has? It is
true an art form. During his twenty twenty four campaign
for president, Trump supported were at leasing the Epstein files,
but Trump's Justice Department released a memo in July stating
(08:10):
that no further disclosure of the documents was necessary after
teasing a truckload of Epstein files in March, and I
remember when that was all happening. I remember people telling me, oh,
here it comes, the transparency is coming. Like somebody on
Twitter named are we the Baddies or whatever actually have
the audacity to try to argue that we were going
(08:30):
to get these files. And then when the files don't come,
people like that, Well they just move the goalpost, right, Oh, well,
we're going to get this later on and trust the plan.
And no, nobody trusts anything that's coming out of this administration.
Why would you. They literally had this teed up. They
could have been the heroes, right, they could have been
everything they say they are, But the truth is they
(08:52):
never were any of that. All that talk about being
crusaders for justice, protect the children, only to be exposed
as the swamp creatures that they actually are. They went
from draining the swamp to residing in it. It sparked
unusual dissension within the Republican Party and a movement to
force a vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Well, look,
(09:14):
I think that most people, whether you're a publican, Democrat
or anything in between, thinks that there's something going on
here that needs to be exposed. And I'm sure most
people feel like we're not getting the real story. And
if you've spent even just a little bit of time
following along with what's going on, you know that something
is seriously, seriously wrong and that things aren't on the
(09:35):
up and up, especially when it comes to Glenn Maxwell.
There is no way in hell Glenn Maxwell should have
been moved, No way in hell, there's no justification for it,
and they won't even try and make pretend to offer
any And that's all because it's part of the quid
pro quo plot with the Trump administration, Glenn Maxwell shuts
up and she gets moved. Right. She knew she wasn't
(09:57):
getting out, But the second best thing is to get
moved to Camp Ryan. And the only way to do
that is to sing a song that Trump wants to hear.
And what did Maxwell do in that meeting? She shares,
sang a song that Donald Trump wanted to hear, and
then of course she gets you know, the treatment she's getting.
How can you look at that and say, oh, this
(10:17):
is okay, there's nothing wrong here, because from where I'm sitting,
there's a lot wrong there, and all of it points
to a gigantic cover up. While Trump constantly called the
issue a hoax, he surprisingly reversed course and supported releasing
the files as the bill swiftly passed through the House,
the Senate and was signed by Trump on November nineteenth. Yeah,
(10:39):
because he had no other choice. He knew he was cooked,
He knew that that vote was gonna go against him.
So instead of getting steamrolled and looking like an idiot,
he decided to jump on board at the very end
and tell Republicans that they should, you know, sign on.
But why didn't he do that from the beginning? Why
are you fighting tooth and Nell to keep this stuff
out of the public view? Why do you want to
(10:59):
keep everything on the hush, Why do you want to
keep everything wrapped up under a seal? Why don't you
want to just give us transparency? And most importantly, why
are you playing ball with Kallaine Maxwell? And in the
next episode, I'm gonna give you my theory as to
why Gallaine Maxwell was moved and what the real motivation
behind it was. But until then, that's gonna do it
(11:21):
for this one. All of the information that goes with
this episode can be found in the description box.
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. Glenn Maxwell has announced that she is filing
a petition with the court to attempt to get released
from prison. And the type of petition that she filed
is called a habeas corpus petition, and it's pretty much
the last stop for Glenn Maxwell. We all know that
(00:21):
she has failed at every turn to get released from prison,
whether that's the appeal or the mistrial or anything else
she's tried. We know that that's all failed, and we
know that it was never going to be successful. There's
not a court in the land, as we've seen, that's
going to take a look at the evidence that's been
presented against Glaine Maxwell and let her out of prison.
(00:43):
Not a court in the land. So has this really
all just been about Glayne Maxwell trying to get out
of prison or is there something else bubbling beneath the
surface when it comes to Maxwell and the Trump administration.
In this episode, that's what we're going to talk about.
And to start out, we have an article from USA
Today and the headline Blaine Maxwell will plead for a
(01:04):
prison release. New court filing says this article was authored
by Terry Collins. Glene Maxwell, the close associate you mean,
co conspirator and convicted accomplice of the late disgraced financier
and accused sex offender, not accused an actual sex offender
went to prison for it. Please learn the story, intends
to file a petition asking a judge to release her
(01:27):
from prison. In a court filing to US District Court
Judge Paul Engelmeyer on Wednesday, December third, Maxwell's attorneys did
not provide specific details on what legal grounds she would
argue in her habeas corpus petition seeking her prison release. Well,
that's because it's not real. I mean it's real in
the sense it's going to get filed, but they know
(01:47):
they're not gonna be victorious. The whole entire idea is
to keep things gummed up to make sure things aren't
released as far as grand jury documents or anything to
do with Glenn Maxwell that might connect the dots. That's
the whole entire motivation here. For her and for Trump,
Maxwell knew she was never getting out of prison. So
(02:08):
what's the next best thing? Try and better your surroundings, right,
go to a better facility, And how do you do that? Well,
you call the Trump administration and say you're ready to
play ball. But what she meant by playing ball was
not giving up names or giving up people that might
have been involved. What she meant was by protecting the administration.
(02:29):
That's what she meant by playing ball. The court filing
also states that Maxwell plans to file her petition pro say,
meaning she would represent herself and pursue her early release
without the help of a lawyer. Well, I wonder where
Oscar David Marcus is. My guess is this is all
part of the plan. So Maxwell can argue later on
(02:50):
that she had no idea what she was doing, and
she wasn't represented by legal counsel, so she needs another
crack at it, That's my guess. Now, do I know
that that's what's going to happen. Of course not. But
when you're dealing with these people, there's always five moves
behind the one they're making. I mean, all of a sudden,
Glenn Maxwell isn't gonna have legal representation. Okay, I guess.
(03:10):
Maxwell's petition also comes almost two months after the US
Supreme Court rejected the appeal of her conviction and sentenced Well,
that's because all of it was just. Anyone telling you
that Gallainne Maxwell caught a raw deal is brain dead.
They must be suffering from CTE from too many hits
to the dome piece, because there's no way you could
(03:31):
look at the evidence and say that Glainne Maxwell got
a raw deal. Now, does that mean she's the only
one that should be in prison? Of course not. That's
not what I'm saying. But don't try that. What about ism?
Bullshit with me. Everybody needs to pay up, pay up,
pay up, including Glenn Maxwell. So there is no scenario
on Earth where Glayne Maxwell should be released from prison,
(03:52):
zero chances that should ever happen. It should even be
a discussion. And the only reason that it is a
discussion is because Trump knows it helps them. If he
had nothing to gain here, do you really think he'd
be engaging in this kind of back and forth with Maxwell,
sending the Deputy Attorney General to have a conversation with her,
and then moving her to Camp Brian. None of that's normal.
(04:13):
Nothing about this is normal, not from the start to
the finish to now, no answers, nobody telling us what's
going on, why she was transferred. The whole last thing
smells like a corpse rotting in the sun. She is
currently in a minimum security women's prison in Texas after
being transferred from a federal prison in Florida. The move
(04:33):
came shortly after she was interviewed about Epstein by Deputy
Attorney General Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump's former defense attorney.
And can you imagine how bad Todd Blanche did in
that interview. It was one of the most pathetic things
I've ever seen. Imagine having Golain Maxwell in front of you,
having all the information that the Justice Department has, and
(04:54):
then going easy on her the way Todd Blanche did.
There's no excuse for that. There's no explanation for that.
Of course, they were trying to help her out and
guide her along. Maxwell should be charged for perjury for
lying to Todd Blanche during this deposition. You can't have
a profit session and then bullshit the Deputy Attorney General.
If you or I lied to an FBI agent, We're
(05:16):
going to go to prison, buck Layne. Maxwell. She can
do whatever she wants, obviously, So once again, tell me,
how is any of this stuff normal? None of it is.
Nothing that's happening when it comes to Maxwell, is even
close to being status quo or the way things usually work.
And I think one of the most maddening parts is
(05:36):
the silence that's coming from the administration. People have legitimate questions,
and the administration acts like none of this has taken place,
like they don't have an obligation to be forthcoming as
to why they moved one of the most notorious traffickers
of all time to a prison camp. How about some
basic answers, that's all, And you can save the whole
(05:57):
entire national security bullshit for somebody else. This stuff right
here has nothing to do with national security and everything
to do with the fact that there's a cover up
taking place right in front of our eyes. The court
filing also came on the same day that House Democrats
on the Oversight Committee released never before seen photos and
videos from a private Caribbean island that Epstein once owned.
(06:19):
The Justice Department has until December nineteenth to release more
records from its files under a law Congress pasted in November.
And look, I have my doubts about what we're going
to get. Like I've told you from the jump, I'm
sure they're going to give us something. Right they have
to by law. But what is it going to entel.
Is it going to be just a bunch of black
blocks on pages, everything adapted, or are they going to
(06:42):
do their job correctly and give the American people the
glimpse behind the curtain that they deserve. Unfortunately, I highly
doubt that they respect you enough to give you this information. Instead,
they're going to keep the bullshit going. They're going to
keep the gas lighting going, and the cover up is
going to keep growing. But at this rate going to
be too many moving parts, and something's going to break
(07:03):
down at some point, and when it does, there's a
chance that this whole entire thing gets exposed for what
it is. The House Oversight Committee did not immediately return
USA Today's request for a comment about Maxwell's core filing. Well,
I don't think they have anything to say about it.
What would they say about it. There's nothing that they
have to do with that, right. Maxwell isn't coming in
(07:25):
to talk to them. She already said so. So I
think that Congress really has no light to stand on,
if you will, when it comes to Glenn Maxwell and
forcing her to do anything. Continuous controversy over Epstein's criminal
case files have tormented Trump. Epstein and Maxwell were friends
of Trump in the nineties and early two thousands, and
of course when Trump's asked about Maxwell or Epstein, he
(07:47):
always has amnesia. Right, they were never really close. He
didn't really know them, and what he did know about him,
he really disliked them. Has there ever been somebody who
could master revisionism the way Donald Trump has? It is
true an art form. During his twenty twenty four campaign
for president, Trump supported were at leasing the Epstein files,
but Trump's Justice Department released a memo in July stating
(08:10):
that no further disclosure of the documents was necessary after
teasing a truckload of Epstein files in March, and I
remember when that was all happening. I remember people telling me, oh,
here it comes, the transparency is coming. Like somebody on
Twitter named are we the Baddies or whatever actually have
the audacity to try to argue that we were going
(08:30):
to get these files. And then when the files don't come,
people like that, Well they just move the goalpost, right, Oh, well,
we're going to get this later on and trust the plan.
And no, nobody trusts anything that's coming out of this administration.
Why would you. They literally had this teed up. They
could have been the heroes, right, they could have been
everything they say they are, But the truth is they
(08:52):
never were any of that. All that talk about being
crusaders for justice, protect the children, only to be exposed
as the swamp creatures that they actually are. They went
from draining the swamp to residing in it. It sparked
unusual dissension within the Republican Party and a movement to
force a vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Well, look,
(09:14):
I think that most people, whether you're a publican, Democrat
or anything in between, thinks that there's something going on
here that needs to be exposed. And I'm sure most
people feel like we're not getting the real story. And
if you've spent even just a little bit of time
following along with what's going on, you know that something
is seriously, seriously wrong and that things aren't on the
(09:35):
up and up, especially when it comes to Glenn Maxwell.
There is no way in hell Glenn Maxwell should have
been moved, No way in hell, there's no justification for it,
and they won't even try and make pretend to offer
any And that's all because it's part of the quid
pro quo plot with the Trump administration, Glenn Maxwell shuts
up and she gets moved. Right. She knew she wasn't
(09:57):
getting out, But the second best thing is to get
moved to Camp Ryan. And the only way to do
that is to sing a song that Trump wants to hear.
And what did Maxwell do in that meeting? She shares,
sang a song that Donald Trump wanted to hear, and
then of course she gets you know, the treatment she's getting.
How can you look at that and say, oh, this
(10:17):
is okay, there's nothing wrong here, because from where I'm sitting,
there's a lot wrong there, and all of it points
to a gigantic cover up. While Trump constantly called the
issue a hoax, he surprisingly reversed course and supported releasing
the files as the bill swiftly passed through the House,
the Senate and was signed by Trump on November nineteenth. Yeah,
(10:39):
because he had no other choice. He knew he was cooked,
He knew that that vote was gonna go against him.
So instead of getting steamrolled and looking like an idiot,
he decided to jump on board at the very end
and tell Republicans that they should, you know, sign on.
But why didn't he do that from the beginning? Why
are you fighting tooth and Nell to keep this stuff
out of the public view? Why do you want to
(10:59):
keep everything on the hush, Why do you want to
keep everything wrapped up under a seal? Why don't you
want to just give us transparency? And most importantly, why
are you playing ball with Kallaine Maxwell? And in the
next episode, I'm gonna give you my theory as to
why Gallaine Maxwell was moved and what the real motivation
behind it was. But until then, that's gonna do it
(11:21):
for this one. All of the information that goes with
this episode can be found in the description box.
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