So 'husband of GMax handled tracking of 80% of sea faring shipping? Wayfair? Victoria's Secret? Bain Capital (R Maxwell founder) TerraMar? Child Protection Agencies? NXIVM? Ray Chandler? Epstein Island? It's all coming together. Scott Borgerson was moving product for GMax and they got married so they couldn't be compelled to testify against each other.

CargoMetrics Founder and CEO Scott Borgerson Resigns

October 2, 2020

Scott Borgerson has resigned from his role as CEO of CargoMetrics, the shipping data analytics company he founded in 2010, gCaptain has learned. Tradewinds News broke the story today that Borgerson stepped down due to intense media interest surrounding his rumored links with Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. Privately-held CargoMetrics has confirmed that Borgerson did in fact resign as CEO and from company’s board in late July to “ensure his presence would not become a distraction from the work he believes in so deeply,” the company said in a statement to gCaptain. CargoMetrics’ President and Chief Operating Officer Jes Scully has been appointed CEO of the company and he has also been named to the company’s Board, the company said.

Boston-based CargoMetrics Technologies was founded by Borgerson in 2010 as data-driven investment company that uses proprietary software to provide real-time insight into the global shipping industry. The company has long been considered a front-runner in the space of big data in shipping and has attracted investments from tech bigwigs such as Eric Schmidt, former CEO and executive chairman of Google, and hedge fund investor Paul Tudor Jones. In 2017, the company entered into an equity agreement with Maersk Tankers, giving the A.P. Moller-Maersk unit access to CargoMetrics’ data and software.

With Scully now at the helm, CargoMetrics says it is continuing its expansion in earnest. “At CargoMetrics, we continue to be innovative leaders in tracking and analyzing global seaborne trade, providing valuable, predictive insight to those in the shipping and financial markets,” CargoMetrics’ statement said. “At this exciting time in our 12-year-old company’s evolution, long-time President and Chief Operating Officer Jes Scully has been appointed CEO and has been named to the CargoMetrics Board. There is no individual more qualified than Jes to lead our exceptional interdisciplinary team of software engineers, data scientists, mathematicians, and maritime experts as CargoMetrics realize its vast potential.”

https://gcaptain.com/cargometrics-founder-and-ceo-scott-borgerson-resigns/

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Former Epstein lawyer drops out of appeal for NXIVM leader Raniere

Nov. 11, 2021

ALBANY — When Marc Fernich took on the criminal appeal of imprisoned NXIVM leader Keith Raniere in July, the onetime lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein said “government shouldn't be in the business of policing morality.” Less than five months later, Fernich is no longer in the business of representing Raniere. Court documents filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit show that Fernich — who did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday — is no longer part of Raniere's legal team, and that California-based attorney Joseph M. Tully is in. Tully recently filed a $12 million lawsuit on behalf of NXIVM loyalist Marc Elliot against Starz over its four-part series "Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult." He's the latest in a revolving door of attorneys who have worked on Raniere's appeal.

In June 2019, a federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Raniere on all charges, including sex trafficking, forced labor conspiracy and racketeering crimes. The former Halfmoon denizen and purported self-help guru known to followers as “Vanguard" is serving a 120-year sentence in a federal facility outside Tucson, Ariz. Raniere's legal team is being reshuffled just weeks after federal prosecutors in Brooklyn revealed a new development in the case: that an associate of the jailed Raniere allegedly possessed court-restricted evidence and sexually explicit photos of a victim. Senior U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis, who presided over Raniere's trial, had ordered that such pre-trial evidence was not to be shared by anyone outside the defense team. But prosecutors said Raniere associate Suneel Chakravorty possessed the information and planned to use it on Raniere's behalf. Chakravorty denied doing so.

The judge ordered all past and present attorneys for Raniere to give sworn declarations stating that they had not disclosed or shared the information with outside individuals. At trial, Raniere was defended by attorneys Marc Agnifilo, Teny Geragos, Paul DerOhannesian and Danielle Smith, the latter two based in Albany at the time. Raniere enlisted appellate lawyers that included Jennifer Bonjean, who successfully represented the comedian Bill Cosby in his appeal, as well as Steven Alan Metcalf II, Joseph McBride and Martin Tankleff. Fernich joined Raniere's appeal in early July along with Jeffrey Lichtman, whose high-profile clients have included drug cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera and John A. "Junior" Gotti, the son of the late Gambino crime family boss.

Lichtman told the Times Union on Thursday that he's no longer representing Raniere.

Fernich represented Epstein, the late Manhattan financier and notorious sexual predator who was found dead in his jail cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan in what was ruled a suicide on Aug. 10, 2019. Fernich was on Epstein's legal team at the time of his death, when he faced a long list of federal charges. After taking Raniere's case, Fernich told the Times Union, "Personal autonomy and individual choice, however unorthodox, are essential values. To the extent Keith's prosecution infringed those values, I hope to help vindicate them. Government shouldn't be in the business of policing morality."

So far, Tully's criticism of the judge is related to legal questions. In a brief filed with the Manhattan-based Second Circuit, Tully said that at trial, Garaufis erred in his instructions to the jury pertaining to Raniere’s sex trafficking charges and the judge's definition of the term "commercial sex act." Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn are expected to respond by Jan. 5. Raniere and five co-defendants were all convicted in the 2018 NXIVM case.

Nancy Salzman, 67, who co-founded NXIVM and its Executive Success Programs with Raniere in 1998, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison; she does not need to report to prison until Jan. 19. Seagram's heiress Clare Bronfman, 42, the former Clifton Park resident who was NXIVM's longtime operations director and a principal financial supporter, is serving six years and nine months in a Philadelphia federal prison. Like Raniere, she is appealing her case.

Also convicted were former NXIVM members Allison Mack, 39, the former "Smallville" actress, and Lauren Salzman, 45, the company's former director of education and Nancy Salzman's daughter. Both women pleaded guilty to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy and cooperated with prosecutors. Mack is serving a three-year prison sentence in California. Lauren Salzman testified at trial as the government's star witness against Raniere, and received five years probation. Another defendant, former NXIVM bookkeeper Kathy Russell, 63, formerly of Halfmoon, pleaded guilty to visa fraud. She received two years of probation.

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Former-Epstein-lawyer-Fernich-drops-out-of-appeal-16612655.php

GMax Husband Scott Borgerson was Director of TerraMar in 2013

In 2016, it was as if she’d disappeared. “I have not seen her in a zillion years,” said one acquaintance recently, the type who would run into her on the New York social circuit’s endless round of boutique openings and gala dinners and fashion shows. Speculation veered wildly: The islands? London? Europe?

Now, it seems, Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime friend, apparent employee, and alleged co-conspirator, was closer than that. For the past few years, as the Daily Mail first revealed on Wednesday, the 57-year-old has been living in and outside of Boston. Four people who’ve met with her there said that she’s been in a relationship with a Boston-based tech entrepreneur, Scott Borgerson. Borgerson, in interviews this week, said, “I am not dating Ghislaine” and described her as a “former friend”; meanwhile, all four people said they understood the relationship to be, or that it had been described to them as, romantic. (Borgerson did not respond to requests by phone and email for comment.)

Borgerson, 43, shares Maxwell’s love of the ocean. He graduated with honors from the Coast Guard Academy and got a Ph.D. in international relations from Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. In 2009, he co-founded CargoMetrics, a tech company that brings data analytics to bear on global trade by sea, using its findings to inform investments, consult on fleet optimization, and create new products for the industry. He still serves as its CEO.

Maxwell and Borgerson have been acquainted since at least 2013, when he was listed, for one year, as a director of her oceans-conservation nonprofit, the TerraMar Project, on federal tax filings. In June 2014, the two spoke together at “Governing the Ocean Commons: Growing Challenges, New Approaches,” an event sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, where Borgerson was a visiting fellow.

In 2015, Maxwell was battling Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Epstein’s accusers, in federal court. The case was finally settled out of court two years later. By then, Maxwell was involved with Borgerson and had moved to Massachusetts. In 2016, she sold her Upper East Side mansion for a little more than $15 million. That year, Tidewood LLC, a limited-liability corporation, bought a parcel of land in Manchester-by-the-Sea, a scenic town about 35 miles outside of Boston, for $2,450,000. Minutes from a Manchester-by-the-Sea zoning-board meeting two years later would identify the homeowner behind Tidewood as Scott Borgerson.

An acquaintance of Borgerson’s counseled him through his divorce from the mother of his two children and socialized with him and Maxwell near the beginning of their relationship. “I did know about her background with Jeffrey Epstein,” the acquaintance said, “but I didn’t understand the extent until it all came to the fore.” Maxwell never spoke about it to him.

The acquaintance called Maxwell an “incredibly well-read and educated” woman who could be insightful but also manipulative. As to his friend Borgerson, “he changed pretty dramatically,” he said: the way he dressed, the way he spoke. “Despite the qualms, I think the money and the connections she presented to him were too good to resist.” Photographs taken by the Daily Mail show a lavish house, and in 2018, Borgerson applied to the zoning board for permission to add “a natural swimming pool and a new two-story, two-car garage attached addition with a second floor in-law apartment.” Locals have spotted Maxwell around the Manchester-by-the-Sea property.

In the years before Epstein’s arrest on July 6 and indictment on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy, Borgerson and Maxwell socialized with Harvard professors around Boston. Meanwhile, the TerraMar Project had changed its contact address on tax filings to that of DGC, an accounting firm in Woburn, Massachusetts. “I’m sorry, but I can’t share any client information,” an executive there said when asked about TerraMar’s abrupt closure on July 12. TerraMar’s activities were, to say the least, unusual, and questions have been raised about its work since it shuttered. Tax records show that Maxwell had been lending money to her own charity, and by 2017, it was carrying $500,812 in liabilities, $549,093 of which was for repayment of a loan to Maxwell herself.

https://www.thecut.com/2019/08/ghislaine-maxwells-great-escape-didnt-get-her-far.html

Ghislaine Maxwell Is Secretly Married. Here’s Everyone She’s Reportedly Dated

July 15, 2020

TOPLINE Ghislaine Maxwell has a husband, according to reports that emerged from her detention hearing Tuesday, but she won’t tell prosecutors his identity. Besides the disgraced and dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, here’s everyone his alleged recruiter has reportedly dated over the years:

KEY FACTS

Maxwell has made no “mention whatsoever about the financial circumstances or assets of her spouse, whose identity she declined to provide to Pretrial Services," said assistant U.S. Attorney Allison Moe during Tuesday’s hearing, revealing that the British socialite is married.

Most recently, Maxwell was linked to tech CEO Scott Borgerson in 2019, and reportedly stayed in his $3 million Massachusetts mansion after Epstein died by suicide, but he rejected those claims in a New York Post article

Gateway computer founder Ted Waitt and Maxwell dated around 2005, and broke up around 2011 or 2012, but not before Maxwell attended former first daughter Chelsea Clinton’s July 2010 wedding as Waitt’s guest.

Maxwell began dating Jeffrey Epstein around 1992, shortly after she arrived in the U.S., a move she made after her father and publishing giant Robert Maxwell died under mysterious circumstances.

Maxwell was reportedly in a “serious relationship” prior to 1992 with the late Italian aristocrat and millionaire Count Gianfranco Cicogna, a businessman and stunt pilot who died in a 2012 plane crash.

SURPRISING FACT

Maxwell was first linked to Epstein in the press in an April 24, 1993 Daily Mail article about London’s “It” girls: “Ghislaine Maxwell, meanwhile, has—at 31—become utterly inseparable from her New York boyfriend, Jeff Epstein.”

CRUCIAL QUOTE

“Despite her association with Epstein, now in its fifth year, it is possible that Ghislaine could pull off a still bigger surprise on 5 July, by getting married—but not to him,” wrote the London Evening Standard in a April 24, 1997 article. “She has, after all, always approached men in a spirit of adventure.”

KEY BACKGROUND

Maxwell, 58, faces six charges from 1994 to 1997 related to her alleged participation in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. She entered a not guilty plea during Tuesday’s hearing, and she’s denied all previous allegations against her. Maxwell was laying low for close to a year before her July 2 arrest. The FBI took her into custody from a secluded house in Bradford, New Hampshire. It took 20 armed agents to secure Maxwell’s arrest. Officers were forced to breach the front door of the home after they observed Maxwell, through a window, fleeing a room and shutting the door behind her. Once they entered, they found a cell phone covered in tinfoil, a tactic that officers said was meant to avoid detection by law enforcement. Maxwell was denied bail Tuesday after proposing a $5 million bond and that she would stay in a luxury hotel. She is scheduled to go on trial in July 2021.

FURTHER READING

Long Before Ghislaine Maxwell Disappeared, Her Mogul Father Died Mysteriously (Forbes)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2020/02/28/long-before-ghislaine-maxwell-disappeared-came-her-mogul-fathers-mysterious-death/?sh=70cad4bb5869

https://news.sky.com/story/ghislaine-maxwell-is-secretly-married-but-has-not-revealed-her-partners-identity-us-prosecutors-say-12029139

https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/07/05/20-armed-agents-and-officers-took-part-in-ghislaine-maxwells-arrest/?sh=7c1bb2ed4cc2

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/07/15/ghislaine-maxwell-is-secretly-married-heres-everyone-shes-reportedly-dated/?sh=5fa8836f74c5

Prince Andrew accusations left out of Epstein-Maxwell case

November 23, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — When Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime companion Ghislaine Maxwell goes on trial next week, the accuser who captivated the public most, with claims she was trafficked to Britain’s Prince Andrew and other prominent men, won’t be part of the case. U.S. prosecutors chose not to bring charges in connection with Virginia Giuffre, who says Epstein and Maxwell flew her around the world when she was 17 and 18 for sexual encounters with billionaires, politicians, royals and heads of state. She isn’t expected to be called as a witness in Maxwell’s trial, either. Prosecutors will focus instead on four other women who say they were recruited by Maxwell as teenagers to be abused by Epstein. None has alleged the type of abuse by powerful international figures that Giuffre has detailed in interviews and court filings. Bypassing Giuffre’s allegations about Andrew will keep the most explosive allegations against Maxwell out of the trial, but it will also allow prosecutors to avoid a big risk.

Records, witnesses and photos back up many parts of Giuffre’s account of her time with Epstein, the financier who died by suicide in 2019 while jailed ahead of his own sex trafficking trial. But Giuffre has acknowledged getting key details wrong in her story over the years, including initially falsely saying in a lawsuit that she had been 15 when Epstein began to abuse her. The men she’s accused have spent years attacking her credibility. Maxwell’s lawyers might have tried to have some of them testify. Besides Andrew, Giuffre has said she was sexually trafficked to former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, the noted lawyer Alan Dershowitz, the French modeling scout Jean Luc Brunel and the billionaire Glenn Dubin, among others. All have said her accounts are fabricated.

David Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor who’s not involved in the case, said making Giuffre part of the Maxwell case could have complicated matters unnecessarily. “There is no reason to give the defense anything to work with that can sow the seeds of reasonable doubt,” Weinstein said. Giuffre’s lawyers declined an interview request, but she has stood by her allegations and repeatedly shown a willingness to go into civil court to prove them, sitting in depositions and assembling a legal team that includes one of America’s most influential lawyers, David Boies.

https://apnews.com/article/ghislaine-maxwell-entertainment-lifestyle-virginia-prince-andrew-60348f70fd605c26c26615ffc5ed5f14