Friday, January 16, 2026

On Epstein Files Rep Massie and Khanna Ask SDNY Judge To Appoint Special Master


By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Jan 13 – With Ghislaine Maxwell in prison, she reportedly offered to testify to Congress about Jeffrey Epstein, presumably for a pardon.

Then she said she would invoke the Fifth.

Now after the Epstein files votes on Capitol Hill, from the SDNY Judge who took over the Maxwell file from Judge Nathan, this:

Order on Patreon here.

Just past noon on November 26 the US Attorney's Office filed a four page letter, on Patreon here

On December 3, Maxwell's counsel acknowledged the new Act but wrote "Ms. Maxwell respectfully notes that shortly she will be filing a habeas petition pro se. Releasing the grand jury materials from her case, which contain untested and unproven allegations, would create undue prejudice so severe that it would foreclose the possibility of a fair retrial should Ms. Maxwell’s habeas petition succeed.

An order was also issued in USA v. Epstein - which obviously had less discovery - before Judge Richard M. Berman....

On December 9 Judge Engelmayer granted DOJ's motion, full 24 page order on Patreon here

On January 13, Reps Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna filed a letter brief asking Judge Engelmayer to "appoint a Special Master and/or Independent Monitor for the purpose of ensuring all the documents and electronically stored information are immediately made public to be in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act." Filing on Patreon here

Inner City Press, with its Maximum Maxwell book restored here, will cover all filings.

After having asked Maxwell herself question when she did a press conference in the UN. After that, Inner City Press was banned from the UN by SG Antonio Guterres. His spokesman Stephane Dujarric on July 14, 2025 refused to answer written questions, including:

On deadline, explain why Ghislaine Maxwell was granted a press conference in the UN briefing room, and why a UN correspondent who did a fundraiser with Ghislaine Maxwell - convicted of sex trafficking here in SDNY, and known at the time to be manager for Jeffrey Epstein - is allowed in daily and can ask questions, while Inner City Press which asked and asks remains banned, with 6/19/25 application to MALU pending, none of the promised (by Dujarric) answers to written questions like this provided

      No answers.

Inner City Press continues reporting on the UN (where Ghislaine Maxwell was allowed a press conference and SG  Antonio Guterres  had a rep on her Terramar board  (video here, story here).

This case is USA v. Maxwell, 1:20-cr-330 (Engelmayer)

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