@dailymailpolitics: A federal judge has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's bid to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence, ruling that her claims of 'new evidence' are meritless. Judge Paul Engelmayer said Maxwell's 'new' evidence, largely drawn from files released by the Justice Department, was 'largely irrelevant' to the charges against her. 'On the contrary, to the extent it is relevant, far from exculpating her, it incriminates her or reinforces the correctness of the legal rulings Maxwell challenges,' Engelmayer wrote in the opinion issued in the Southern District of New York. Maxwell, who represented herself in the petition, had argued that the newly released Epstein files supported claims of juror misconduct, a 2007 non-prosecution deal, prosecutorial misconduct and other errors that she said undermined her conviction. Engelmayer branded her filing 'lengthy and rambling' and said that her claims were 'all meritless and all or almost all are frivolous.' #news #politics #ghislainemaxwell #epstein

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