Preska acknowledged that the public thirst for details about Maxwell might go “unsatiated,” but determined that Maxwell’s sex life was adult consensual behavior that should remain her private business. The judge gave all parties until Jan. 27, absent an appeal by Maxwell’s lawyers over the redacted portions, to unseal and make public a voluminous number of documents.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article248600605.html
Hearing on unsealing of Ghislaine Maxwell documents disrupted by QAnon crazies
A routine court hearing on the unsealing of documents in a civil case against Ghislaine Maxwell was overwhelmed Tuesday by more than 14,000 followers of the insane QAnon conspiracy theory.
A conference line used by reporters and the public to listen to the remote proceeding was at capacity. A YouTube personality who managed to get access to the hearing broadcast it on his channel to more than 14,000 listeners who shared bizarre conspiracies about a global sex trafficking cabal in a livechat.
Word of the livestream reached Manhattan Federal Judge Loretta Preska, who halted the hearing.
“Whoever is doing this, you are operating against the law. I suspect there’s a way to find out, so I will ask you most respectfully to stop doing it. We’ve had enough of a lack of the rule of law around here, let’s try to observe it,” she said.
The YouTube stream was then cut. Court rules ban recording or rebroadcasting of hearings.
Maxwell is awaiting trial on charges of grooming victims of Jeffrey Epstein in the mid-1990s. Preska is overseeing the lengthy process of unsealing documents in a civil suit brought by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre against Maxwell.
> "insane QAnon conspiracy"
> "objective journalism"
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