Jeffrey Epstein’s predatory enabler, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been found guilty on five of six counts related to her participation in sexual assaults of minors. Four women testified that Maxwell was the facilitator of their abuse, essentially grooming them to be raped by Epstein.
Maxwell was found guilty of conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts; conspiracy to transport minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity; transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity; sex trafficking conspiracy; sex trafficking of a minor. The lone count on which Maxwell was acquitted, enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, applied only to one Jane Doe victim.
NEW YORK (AP) — The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
The verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring sordid accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14, told by four women who described being abused as teens in the 1990s and early 2000s at Epstein’s palatial homes in Florida, New York and New Mexico.
Jurors deliberated for five full days before finding Maxwell guilty of five of six counts. As the verdict was read, Maxwell appeared to show little reaction behind a black mask. She stood with her hands folded as the jury filed out, and glanced at her siblings as she herself was led from the courtroom, but was otherwise stoic.
She faces the likelihood of years in prison — an outcome long sought by women who spent years fighting in civil courts to hold Maxwell accountable for her role in recruiting and grooming Epstein’s teenage victims and sometimes joining in the sexual abuse.
The defense had insisted Maxwell was a victim of a vindictive prosecution devised to deliver justice to women deprived of their main villain when Epstein killed himself while awaiting trial in 2019.
During the trial, prosecutors called 24 witnesses to give jurors a picture of life inside Epstein’s homes — a subject of public fascination and speculation ever since his 2006 arrest in Florida in a child sex case. (read more)
All the cameras will fail. Guards will be asleep. Etc.
NO. She won’t talk. They’ll wait to see if she writes her memoirs.
Yep. Let me guess. Two guards fail to check her cell but lie and say they did. The camera outside the cell does not work for some reason. Even though she was on suicide watch, she had a bunk bed and Giza sheets. And she suffocated from covid and not the sheet around her neck. So said the DOJ and coroner.
Sounds about right. Lol
Don’t forget that her cell mate gets moved to a different section of the prison the day before she hangs herself in the high-security wing for special prisoners!
And I would be perfectly happy if that now happened. Why should taxpayers pay for this person’s breakfasts for the next 65 years?
Rudy-G, who once ran that prison, called the game exactly. So, let’s just save a little money here and do it once again. Some people do not deserve to live. 🤷♂️
Even hardened criminals and prison guards have DAUGHTERS.
I would not mind paying taxes for a year’s worth of memoirs and trial testimony against all the high flyers for the low down.
Money well spent.
you forget that the predators will still (and are still) preying on children? she was a facilitator (not to minimize her role).
Biden is a predator and a facilitator. Where do you think all the unaccompanied minor illegal immigrants go?
The left are screaming “they are protecting Trump”.
Because of course that’s what they’ve been doing for the last 6 years, right? “Protecting” Trump.
They just have very strange ways of doing that, apparently.
Sheesh.
With all the outrageous lies and propaganda, my wife says how can they say that. My answer is always the same, because they lie.
James Comey protected Killery.
Daughter, Maurene Comey, the lead prosecutor protected Bubba by not bringing in the line of evidence/questioning re: illegal sex activity on Little St James Island aka pedo island. Protecting BUBBA.
AND Hillary & Chelsea. Hillary was on some of those Lolita Express flights to the island as well. I can guarantee you SHE wasn’t going along to hang at the pool or beach.
Yah. Maybe Killery is there primary protectee in all of this. Particularly since she’s been in the news and lots of chatter about her in 2024.
Bubba and who else? So many others. I think it would gob smack us all to know the names
First and foremost, Epstein was a sexual predator. He strongly came to prefer young pubescent girls. He had a girlfriend, Ms. Maxwell who obviously loved him more than he loved her…she had to come to terms with this reality. She choose to stay with Epstein as a cohort in many ways, for she was indeed groomed to the nth degree by Epstein…he had total control over her, she was his “house slave” in every way! How did she go about convincing her mind that this type of behavior was ok?
Now, she will have time to think how she became his slave in so many ways. This is merely an extension of the game the late Charles Manson played with his slaves and you know what they did for him. It is a matter of degrees.
I would hope she has many secrets and with the monies on her side of the fence she now plays her cards hardball. She will need protection, protection Gotti knew how to create and execute.
This new ride will be the ride of her life, one way or the other!
Nah, Epstein had ties with her dad. There is more to it than has been in the press.
You are mistaken: she in NO way was subordinate to him. There was a great deal of information omitted in this trial.
This is clearly a fem perspective. Poor G-Max a “house slave” Are not all women a slave these days? Of course they are! No self will, no determination, no real access to personal empowerment. Poor ladies are just victims. So very sad.
I’m calling BS on this idiotic post by R.J. Sorry sister you are not a victim. You are complicit in a lazy, manipulative victim based scheme attempting to excuse your mediocrity as victimhood. You, like all fems, seek power at the expense of someone else. Why don’t you earn the control you so long for? Answer: It’s easier to whine and beyatch about how victimized you are by nature or oppressors or whatever than to do anything substantive about “it”.
Your ideas are toothless. Man up and make a difference.
Imo age matters.
I can see victimization being applicable to a fourteen year old, but not to a seventeen year old.
DaisyD…as Doc said to Ringo: “You’re no daisy!” Hit a nerve, did I?
Your dumbass has projected into my posting a pseudo reality that only exists in your mind.
Think DJango Unchained where Samuel Jackson plays a classical role…think of the nurses who worked side by side with Dr. Mengele…or better yet, think of Joe Biden working with B. Hussein Obama…if your warped mind allows!
R.J.
Don’t try and figure it out. Some women want to be slaves. Some women like it very rough.
There is just a lot of weird stuff out there.
Many women like terrible men.
Nah. She was there because she wanted to be and did what she wanted to do. She is no wallflower, or of underling mentality.
She is very rich by her family wealth and has never known anything but the good life. Unfortunately, it seems, a good many very wealthy people are perverts.
I’ve read many accounts saying her father recruited her to spy for Mossad and she recruited Epstein. And both of them were involved in creating influence thru blackmail. While they are perverted, testimony about how both of them “trained” the girls fits the theory that this was an entrapment/blackmail scheme.
Bingo!
I wondered how long it would be before someone would attempt to make Maxwell a victim. Claiming that she was enslaved by Epstein is pure hogwash. This woman was born into luxury most of us cannot even imagine. As an adult woman she ran in elite social circles with the wealthiest of individuals and her association with Epstein was simply a means to continue that lifestyle. Wealthy elites believe that they are above the so called rule of law that applies to the masses. Money can in many instances get you out of virtually any jam one might get themselves into. So I suspect that those who engaged in these illicit sexual activities convinced themselves that these young women were treated well and exposed to luxuries they would never have attained on their own. To make Maxwell a victim is an affront to any sense of justice and an affront to all those who have been victimized by the global elites who believe that they are entitled to any pleasure life can offer them.
Just saw a meme of Jeffrey Epstein with his arm around Maxwell.
The text? “Love is finishing each other’s sentences.”
😆😆
Great or what?????😂
Well she’s going to get to finish his “jail” sentence! I wouldn’t call that love!
C’mon man!
She asked for a Covid shot? So sad …got the Rona and died.
GoodLawgic (Joe Nieman?), an attorney, has covered the trial daily. Here’s his 10:53 video detailing the verdict and potential sentencing for the 5/6 charges of which she was convicted. He details each charge and the legal mandate for sentencing. She’s likely to spend the rest of her life in prison.
Yep. About one week.
How I want to see her body language when the verdict was read out!
She chose her path, that of money and warped celebrities. The lady has no morals.
And neither do the celebrities who got to have their secrets hidden/buried in court!
I saw a post that said she stared straight ahead and then reached over and poured herself a glass of water with no emotion!
The actions of a person going through the motions. Because she knows she’s gonna walk eventually. Just has to go through this little snafu before being free again.
Just watch.
no they (the predators so far unamed) cannot afford for her to continue to breathe.
Credit for time served!
I agree with you except no Lady she is!! Scum imho.
First of many to fall from grace.
What grace did she ever have other than sin and evil. it is the fools who were fooled.
Unlikely, unless you really believe in coincidences:
1) Comey’s daughter was on the prosecution team;
2) The judge is up for a promotion to the 2nd Circuit US District Court of Appeals (the Senate Judiciary Committee took up her nomination on 15 December). She was nominated by Schumer.
3) The judge ordered the record of this trial to be sealed.
The female judge is a man!
OK, here’s what I don’t get.
I understand 100% what was going on and why. I also think that an unbelievable number of our elites are involved in ped. (the why on that I do not understand).
If your GM and you obviously think you are safe and untouchable but creepy bf is arrested and then arkancided, don’t you have a tell all somewhere?
I hope like crazy she does but I thought McAfee did and nothing happened there.
This story is not over but hopefully the end is not suicide/
It will look like suicide, same as Jeffie, but she too will be whisked off to the same pretty little island that they put Jeffie on and they will serve their life sentences there, in absolute decadence and luxury. Slaves to those who now hold their illicitly gotten goods. The price is keeping their mouths shut.
Easy peasy.
Why do you think they’re still alive? These people are soulless killers, they think nothing of turning on former allies.
There is no end as long as fools are open to being fooled. It is no different than “Useful Idiots” who support Biden and support Commonest/Fascist/Totalitarians as opposed to supporting the Constitution.
People willing to be sheep standing at the foot of slaughterhouse chutes following evil goats. Every time you see someone voluntarily wearing a mask you witness a fool. You witness a sheep waiting its turn up the slaughterhouse chute.
I don’t believe that McAfee killed himself either.
He even had a tattoo that said “$ WHACKD”.
He said he would never kill himself and that’s why he got the tattoo.
There will be no tell all under this administration, perhaps the next a year from now.
” (the why on that I do not understand)” — Satan is at work in the world is the why.
This spectacle is intended to try and end and do the hush hush so all the other global elites don’t have to face the music for being involved. This was never about what despicable things Maxwell did. Its about protecting other powerful men so they threw her on the fire as a distraction knowing the media will now consider it closed.
Holy crap, the media barely covered it! They won’t have any problem considering it closed.
With the promise—you don’t name names you don’t “suicide” and your appeal will go through.
Gee, ya think she’ll begin to talk and reveal names?
If she does she’s dead. If she tells anyone they’re dead. She knows. Her operation included many, obviously wasn’t only Epstein.
They will offer her a deal if she lies and reveals the names they tell her to. The Deep State will try to use this to take out PDJT.
Did she commit suicide yet??? Slipped on a bar of soap 5 times and cracked her noggin DOA. Did she get a hot shot from Dr. Fauci ?
Do you people realize who and what she was? Do some research on her dad. This whole trial is a cover up for the deep state.
Well, I think so. I agree it is a cover up for the deep state.
What’s your take on it?
Is the verdict the end of the story?
This verdict and case sort of buttons up everything neatly – “all the baddies have been caught, the entire horrible pedo thing is behind us. Move on and let’s not speak of it again.”
Buraq is probably the biggest child trafficker in history.
IMO That’s why it’s so important to keep the Southern border open to all.
Exactly.
Her dad was Robert Maxwell. He was a media mogul and former member of British Parliament.
Robert Maxwell disappeared while at sea on his luxury yacht.
Some say he may have fallen overboard, and most people suspected suicide. They found his body in the Atlantic Ocean.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Maxwell
His ties to MI6?
“They found his body in the Atlantic Ocean.” that is what was reported. Think about it. bodies sink, then may resurface if not eaten by predators. How many predators in Atlantic?
Yes, her father was a billionaire peer in England and she grew up close friends with the wealthiest people in the world including royalty all over Europe!
Nobody Names Their Child Ghislaine
Maybe someone knows her real name.
Ghislaine is the French feminine form of the French masculine name Ghislain, a Latinized form of the Germanic name Gislin which is derived from the ancient Germanic root word gisil, which meant “hostage or pledge” , and was the name of a 7th Century Belgian Saint. Other derivations are Gisele, Gilbert, Jeffrey, Geoffrey, Gisela, etc, depending on origin era and in countries of France, Germany, Italy, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English, Catalan, or Hungarian.
So, Yes. Many people name their child as some form of Ghislaine.
Very interesting; thank you.
There simply HAVE to be videotapes and other forms of evidence. Epstein (who didn’t kill himself) could not have accumulated THAT much wealth without evidence. Do we have to wait for Bill Clinton to die … which could come any day now by the looks of him?
How far ahead of Bill was Harry Reid?
That is the question, in years – in the Democrat Pantheon- in Sin?
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Co-incidence that that second-named guy died yesterday, as the verdict was delayed . . .?
They are being kept in the same room as Huma Abedin’s, Hillary Clinton’s, and Hunter Biden’s computers.
Wouldn’t it be great for them to start dropping like flies! A girl can dream.
Did you see the pics taken by FBI in Epstein’s NYC mansion, PURPORTEDLY of VHS tapes, hard drives and such, boxes and boxes?
The FBI disappeared all the tapes and evidence.
there were videos. FBI “lost” them
If nothing comes to light in the near future and she is still alive one of these things is true: she doesn’t have any incriminating evidence, she has a deadman switch, or they believe she’s too scared to talk.
We Want Bill.
WE WANT BILL.
WE WANT BILL..
As resourceful and connected as Epstein was, I doubt his operation for gathering blackmail material on as many of the most wealthy and powerful people he could was not intended for his own sole benefit. I would guess to keep an operation like that going for as long as he did required someone or some ones to help grease the skids, help out when local authorities threatened etc. An organization willing to pay handsomely as well perhaps. An organization that would greatly treasure such information if it intended to hold power illegitimately and would find it irresistible to help achieve its goals. Only a few names so far of the rich and powerful involved. Jeff is gone. Ghislaine probably doesn’t have long to live. I wonder if the only reason she made it through her trial was to provide some closure point however weak to the victims so we can move on and put this sordid mess behind us and forget it ever happened.
She’s a disgusting human being, and now she has nothing left to lose (except her life) who will she spill the beans to?
This might sound strange to some here but Maxwell is actually small fish.
The pedo elite are the world’s rulers, all else is fluff, these so called people buy and sell countries, have unlimited power and wealth.
Peodophilia is used as a form of currency between them, not only children though there practices include all manner of sick and twisted behavior including satanic worship and human sacrifices to mass child trafficking networks.
They are actually the ones that run the world drug organization’s .
Most people take a glimpse and are that disgusted they turn away as to have a good look defies even to most basic of all human principles, the evil elite know this and play on it.
They throw the dog a bone once in a while and that’s all Maxwell is.
Trump knows of what I speak there is no way he couldn’t that I believe is the hidden reason they went after him so hard, how do I know, I have been there and lived to tell the tale.
The only way to rid the world of its problems is to fully expose the pedo elite, this however is problematic as most havn’t got the fortitude to handle such truth.
If one thinks of the most disgusting things one can multiple by a thousand and your just getting warm!
I did not write this today, thirty years of research and personal experience has led me to my conclusions.
Drag it all into the sunlight. Evil just breeds in darkness. Need to expose it to kill it.
The 24th Prime Minister of Australia was a pedo called Paul Keating, he has a daughter named Katherine Keating, just so happens Katherine and Ghislain were and are best lifelong friends.
Has anybody even seen a glimpse of this fact anywhere !!
That’s right !
Keating senior is also buds with baglady !
I could go on but I think you get the picture.
There are no coincidences.
You are spot on, and Ill also add abortion into the mix of human sacrifices. People who think that this couldnt be happening in our modern too “civilized” society are only fooling themselves, or choose to be ignorant towards reality.
Not being a smartass but I know I’m spot on, and yes you can add abortion into the mix.
This topic cannot be allowed to continue as taboo if this war is to be won.
As much as the pain it causes to enter this warren you must be prepared to stand at hells gates.
This is the most difficult task I ever endured by a long shot, such is my warning, it can be done though and there is an escape route .
A further word of warning no matter how shining your armour will be battered and torn.
I’ll be glad to see some justice for the so called small fish.
I won’t hold my breath. She might get lucky with her obama appointed judge.
Alison?
or
Nathan?
Which is it, for Pat’s sake?
Women sometimes wear a bob
But that’s a Butch
just sayin’
Dont forget the gun running. How do you guys think Hedge Funds were able to outperform Mutual Funds for so long? Hedge funds were able to invest in other things as well as stocks. Sex, Drugs and Weapons appear to perform better than traditional stocks.
I read the Vigilant Citizen for awhile. But I had a newborn curled up on my lap and a toddler and with my maternal protective instincts I couldn’t take it. Can’t bring myself to go back. But I know.
What happened to Jim Caviziel’s new movie about child trafficking? It was supposed to be out by now. Haven’t heard a word about it……..
This will NOT end well for the pedophiles. Thank you Lord.
That picture of Bill Clinton and Maxwell at Chelsea’s wedding says everything you need to know!
Not really. After all, our guy was at the wedding too.
Got a picture of “our guy”?
I don’t think he was there. No images at all, and a snotty vanity fair article about how desperate he was for the invite that never came.
Went to look andnaure enough, herebis a link:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/donald-trump-chelsea-clinton-wedding
I don’t think so. But Hillary and Bill were at PDJT’s wedding to Melania. They were quite friendly before PDJT found out what a pervert Epstein is and had to kick him out of Maro Lago.
Whew! Thank God THAT’S over with!
Now Hillary can run in 2024 and calmly say “that’s old news. I don’t even know who that woman is.”
/s
“At this point, what difference does it make?”
gotta get the vernacular right
“What difference – at this point – does it make?”
Proper word placement and punctuation are essential
In the George Zimmerman trial, placement of a simple hyphen made the difference between
a creepy-a$$ cracker
and
a creepy a$$-cracker
I’ll be here all week if there are any more grammar or punctuation questions
How long do you think her sentence will be? I say 4 years minus time already served.
Eternity.
She needs to giver her attorney all the information to release about the vile filthy wealthy Cretins, vile corrupt politicians, vile corrupt judges, vile media whores like Katie Couric,
vile Hollywood Cretins, and whomever else, who romped with Epstein.
and condemn the attorney to death also?
What about the perverts who were the recipients of such perversion? Do they escape because they’re rich pigs?
To quote The Outlaw Josie Wales
“I reckon so”
They got a pimp. How about all the big-name johns?
I smell ARKANSIDE coming round the bend!
Every man and woman caught up in the Epstein blackmail scam is demonic. All who defend them are demonic. The Unitparty is demonic. All who facilitate the current government and defend it are demonic.
When will everybody finally realize that we are in a battle of good versus evil?
I am not perfect man. In my youth and later years I sinned. Did bad things. But never, never in my life did I
think I would see the kind of depravity and demonic behavior I am seeing now by those in the public limelight.
I know it was foretold, but I still held the illusion it was not going to be in my life time. I was wrong.
I am prepared to die in the fight of Good and Evil. I was given a second chance when I got saved from colorectal cancer. So I am an instrument of God. My beloved wife has been told I may have to do something, one day, that costs me my life. But I will do it gladly, knowing that in the end, the demonic forces will be cast out forever.
All our loved ones passed before us await us. We must make them proud. Be steadfast, Keep your powder dry. Trust in God. Hold those dear to you close. Never back down.
She will have a stroke like Julian.
Word on the street is the Aussie Guv is negotiating a deal whereas Assange returns to Australia.
People there don’t know the extent of support Assange has here and to add this has grown.
The political points to be scored in such a move are massive.
One of Maxwell’s victims is Australian and word is there is a connection with Clinton- Epstein-Maxwell- and Katherine Keating, Assange having the “dirt”.
It’s live now, the Tim Pool timcast show, guest is Amanda Milius, the producer of the Plot Against the President movie and Luke (can’t remember his last name) – the guy that snuck onto Epstein’s island and took videos and posted them on the internet.
It’s really quite an episode the first 20 -30 minutes all over this verdict.
I guarantee you the FBI,CIA, SDNY etal. have all the Epstein evidence. Video’s, flight logs ,pics, computers,phones, EVERYTHING! None will ever see the light of day and will only be used for maximum leverage/extortion of the politicians,Judges and anyone else they need to control. This woman can spill her guts till the cows come home, but there will be no evidence to back up any of her claims. She’s more than likely soon to be a just another Covid death statistic..
And guess what,
The judge has ordered the Ghislaine Maxwell case sealed. That’s a horrible decision.
Young girls were trafficked, impregnated, forced to have abortions and their abusers should be held accountable.
A judge has ordered the settlement between Epstein and Prince Andrew and OTHERS to be unsealed on Jan. 3rd. Any guess who the others may be?
The positive from this trial is the public now knows more than they did before. We do not know everything, but we do know more. Exposure of truth is a wonderful thing.
Judge orders settlement between Virginia Giuffre and Prince Andrew and OTHERS be unsealed on Jan. 3, 2022. Any guess who others may be?
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.564713/gov.uscourts.nysd.564713.59.0_1.pdf
If she was going to rat on any still living co-conspirators, she would have done so already. They’re glad she didn’t. She showed us- when the verdict was read to her, cool as a cucumber. Was she thinking about all that time behind bars in a slimy rat-infested lock-up, with bad lighting? Probably not. Her mind was working on what favors she could call in during her appeal. This isn’t over yet. That’s because it’s not a military tribunal. If it was they’d be frog-marching her to the gallows, first thing in the morning.
Wonder why that is? So a woman arranging an underage girl for sex is illegal but a powerful, wealthy, politically well connected man having sex with that underage girl isn’t? Who knew?
To anyone who thinks that she will talk and tell all and name names. Ask yourself who would she talk to? Who would even air what she said? The FBI and Wray will not even show up and listen. The police will just refer her to the FBI. The mainstream media liars including Fox News are only interested if she names Trump and Republicans. Wikileaks is shut down.
She has all that info and no one will listen. All that info and no one will ever hear a word she says. The FBI already took all the evidence and blackmail material she had hidden. She has nowhere to go. She will rot in jail, probably in solitary confinement a good deal of the time.
She had her chance to speak. Now she is that tree in the forest that falls and no one will ever hear.
Even fi she had spoken the judge and prosecutor would have struck it out
She must have the goods lodged somewhere
Not following, but quick read of the highlights and the comments leaves this sense:
Jury acquittal closes it for all parties. That not being the case, a guilty verdict will result in penalty phase TBD. There’s room to maneuver yet. Probably a deal cut, one that couldn’t be refused. Time won’t be excessive, and what time gets marked prob won’t be served by far. Leverage in that. Safer to be in protective custody than free and exposed to nervous parties. Hard place, but arguably leverage on both sides to work out a least worst outcome for her. FWIW.
Cherry on top is sealed proceedings.
They’ll give her a deal if she falsely accuses PDJT. Watch. Hopefully she has a come to Jesus moment and decides to be a decent person who tells the truth.
Just another “expendable”. Globalist underlings take note.
Maxwell will be rubbed out same as Epstein so she can never tell how Bill and Hillary Clinton and at least half a dozen powerful Senators were in cahoots with Epstein in this racket. As well as foreign big shots like Prince Andrew. Notice the DOJ only prosecuted Maxwell and none of the politicians. She has to know what awaits her.
Who knows where Fed trillions and Israeli criminals go?
Can’t audit, can’t see.
Her father was Mossad
I followed the trial on Substack. I’m not defending her but she was railroaded. No real facts came out, just their words against hers. The jury was plodding along until the judge commented that they would have to work through the weekend. Verdict came out the next morning.
I’m hoping she has a nuclear trigger that if something happens to her, the names will come out. I want these slime balls exposed. I figure half of Congress will leave and 2-3 Supreme Court justices will leave. And so forth.
Coroner’s Report already filled out. Cause of Death: Myocardial Infarction and Respiratory Arrest; Contributory cause: Myocarditis; SARS/CoV-2. Body prepared for cremation.
I wish she or her family would leak the nsames of the rapists
Ghislaine Hoch, daddy’s girl… fear not, we know your true crimes against America.
J Epstein, brought in as the heir to the family business…blackmail, in the name of their beloved.
To the wiki we go, to find out why the media never wanted this story.
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Ian Robert Maxwell MC (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a British media proprietor, former member of Parliament (MP), suspected spy, and fraudster.[1] Originally from Czechoslovakia
Israeli controversy Edit
1948 war
A hint of Maxwell’s service to Israel was provided by John Loftus and Mark Aarons, who described Maxwell’s contacts with Czechoslovak communist leaders in 1948 as crucial to the Czechoslovak decision to arm Israel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Czechoslovak military assistance was both unique and crucial for Israel as it battled for its existence. According to Loftus and Aarons, it was Maxwell’s covert help in smuggling aircraft parts into Israel that led to the country having air superiority during their 1948 war of independence.[48]
Mossad allegations; Vanunu case Edit
The Foreign Office suspected that Maxwell was a secret agent of a foreign government, possibly a double agent or a triple agent, and “a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia”. He had known links to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), to the Soviet KGB, and to the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.[49] Six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence services attended Maxwell’s funeral in Israel, while Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogised him and stated: “He has done more for Israel than can today be told.”[50]
Shortly before Maxwell’s death, a former employee of Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate, Ari Ben-Menashe, approached a number of news organisations in Britain and the US with the allegation that Maxwell and the Daily Mirror’s foreign editor, Nicholas Davies, were both long-time agents for Mossad. Ben-Menashe also claimed that, in 1986, Maxwell informed the Israeli Embassy in London that Mordechai Vanunu revealed information about Israel’s nuclear capability to The Sunday Times, then to the Daily Mirror. Vanunu was subsequently kidnapped by Mossad and smuggled to Israel, convicted of treason and imprisoned for eighteen years.[51]
Ben-Menashe’s story was ignored at first, but eventually journalist Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker repeated some of the allegations during a press conference in London held to publicise The Samson Option, Hersh’s book about Israel’s nuclear weapons.[52] On 21 October 1991, Labour MP George Galloway and Conservative MP Rupert Allason (also known as espionage author Nigel West) agreed to raise the issue in the House of Commons under parliamentary privilege protection,[a] which in turn allowed British newspapers to report events without fear of libel suits. Maxwell called the claims “ludicrous, a total invention” and sacked Davies.[53] A year later, in Galloway’s libel settlement against Mirror Group Newspapers (in which he received “substantial” damages), Galloway’s counsel announced that the MP accepted that the group’s staff had not been involved in Vanunu’s abduction. Galloway referred to Maxwell as “one of the worst criminals of the century”.[54]
That picture of Bill and Chelsea — do all dads look so glum on the day their daughter gets married? Just seemed a strange look on the face of the Father of the Bride. My husband was cracking jokes so our daughter would be smiling and comfortable as they walked. I can imagine a little tear, but that face is odd.