The social media giant argues if the Texas Supreme Court allows the cases to proceed, it could lead to a 50-state patchwork of laws regulating online service providers.
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In her latest motion for bail while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell offered Tuesday to renounce her French and U.K. citizenships.
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Jeffrey Epstein’s lenient nonprosecution agreement in 2007 allowed the pedophile financier to defer federal charges and instead plead guilty to
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Canadian fashion executive Peter Nygard on Friday was denied bail while he fights extradition to the United States to stand trial for sex crimes.
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In a bid to chip away at her six-count criminal indictment, Ghislaine Maxwell lambasted the government’s case on grounds of vagueness and double jeopardy.
Read moreCameraman Theodore Wilfred Gyi pleaded guilty in federal court in California to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking for working with the operators of the website GirlsDoPorn to coerce young women to appear in porn videos.
Read morePolice officers have a “non-trivial” privacy interest in their unit assignments, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled, so the Las Vegas Review-Journal cannot request information regarding police unit assignments related to sex-trafficking cases without showing it will advance a significant public interest.
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Finding that Ghislaine Maxwell poses the same flight risk as when she was arrested, a federal judge refused Monday to let the British socialite out of jail before her trial on charges of assisting Jeffrey Epstein recruit girls and young women for sex.
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Accusing the government of scapegoating her to make up for its aborted prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell told a federal judge Wednesday that her relationship with the late pedophile is no reason to deny her bail.
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The U.S. government considers Jeffrey Epstein’s globe-trotting ex-girlfriend far too big a flight risk to allow bail as she awaits trial on sex-trafficking charges, prosecutors wrote Friday to a federal judge.
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Forty women dealt the latest blow to tech company PornHub Tuesday, suing the website and its parent company MindGeek for allegedly ignoring — and profiting from — the purported sex trafficking enterprise run by GirlsDoPorn, a website the same women blew the whistle on in a fraud trial last year.
Read moreCanadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been indicted on federal racketeering and sex-trafficking charges, New York prosecutors announced Tuesday.
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In a newly unsealed letter, Ghislaine Maxwell has proposed a $28.5 million bail package in a renewed bid to be released from the Brooklyn jail where she has been detained for the last five months awaiting trial on criminal sex trafficking counts.
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Moments before sentencing Keith Raniere to over a century in prison Tuesday, a federal judge rebuked the former sex cult leader’s lawyer for arguing his client deserved a lesser sentence because “we’re sentencing on his perspective.”
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More than a dozen files whose disclosure Ghislaine Maxwell fought bitterly to keep under wraps became public on Thursday morning, including a deposition in which prosecutors say she perjures herself.
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A Second Circuit panel appeared wary Tuesday of keeping Ghislaine Maxwell’s old civil deposition testimony under wraps as she goes to trial for her role in the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking web.
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Seagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison on Wednesday for her role as the longtime financier of purported self-help group NXIVM, which was essentially a pyramid scheme with sex slaves.
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Tens of thousands of girls across Asia are being forced into marriage by desperate families plunged into poverty because of the coronavirus pandemic, as campaigners warn years of progress tackling the practice is being undone.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein charged with trafficking underage girls for sex, cannot await trial in the general prison population, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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