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#SouthernDistrictOfNewYork

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People (7)

  • Alison Nathan Federal judge, formerly an Obama White House lawyer, who presided over Ghislaine Maxwell's prosecution in Manhattan and sentenced her to 20 years three months after her own commission to the Second Circuit.
  • Jed Rakoff Former chief of securities fraud prosecutions in Manhattan, appointed a federal judge by Bill Clinton, who rejected the SEC's Citigroup settlement in 2011 and presided over the 2023 Epstein suits against JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank.
  • Laura Menninger Denver trial lawyer of Haddon, Morgan and Foreman, formerly a Goldman Sachs analyst and law clerk to Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who defended Ghislaine Maxwell in Giuffre v. Maxwell and United States v. Maxwell.
  • Loretta Preska Manhattan federal judge appointed by George H.W. Bush, chief judge from 2009 to 2016, who inherited the sealed Giuffre v. Maxwell record in 2019 and managed its unsealing through 2026.
  • Paul Engelmayer Manhattan federal judge and former Thurgood Marshall clerk and Major Crimes chief who inherited Ghislaine Maxwell's closed criminal case and ruled on its grand jury record under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
  • Richard M. Berman Manhattan federal judge, a former Javits aide and Warner Cable general counsel, who ordered Jeffrey Epstein detained in 2019, let victims speak before dismissing his indictment, and later unsealed its grand jury record.
  • Robert W. Sweet Former New York deputy mayor and Carter-appointed Manhattan federal judge who sentenced Towers Financial's Steven Hoffenberg in 1997 and presided over the sealed Giuffre v. Maxwell record until his death in 2019.

Events (4)

  • Giuffre v. Maxwell Virginia Giuffre's 2015 defamation suit against Ghislaine Maxwell in the Southern District of New York, settled in 2017, whose sealed discovery record was litigated for a decade and reached by a 2019 grand jury subpoena.
  • Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank The Virgin Islands' 2022 federal suit accusing JPMorgan of facilitating Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking, heard by Judge Jed Rakoff with two victims' bank suits and settled in 2023 for 75 million dollars.
  • United States v. Epstein Federal sex-trafficking prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein in Manhattan, indicted July 2019 and dismissed after his death in jail that August, whose sealed grand jury record was ordered released in December 2025.
  • United States v. Maxwell Federal sex-trafficking prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell in the Southern District of New York, ending in a 2021 conviction and 20-year sentence, whose grand jury record was unsealed under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.