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n order to help to determine my status to assess fees, you should know that I am a member of the news media with the legal publication Law&Crime. (See here: n awandcrime.com.) This request is made as part of news gathering and not for a commercial use.

Ghislaine Maxwell's case is a matter of great national importance considering her involvement in the broader Jeffrey Epstein scandal. The overarching scandal has, for years, touched upon issues of alleged corruption by local, state and federal officials and has reportedly involved serial governmental incompetence.

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