Lawyers urge leniency at sentencing for Ghislaine Maxwell


              FILE - Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, center, speaks alongside William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, during a news conference to announce charges against Ghislaine Maxwell for her alleged role in the sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple minor girls by financier Jeffrey Epstein, Thursday, July 2, 2020, in New York. Lawyers for Maxwell urged leniency at sentencing, asking a judge Wednesday, June 15, 2022, to disregard a probation department recommendation of a 20-year prison term for her sex trafficking conviction and role in Epstein’s sex abuse of teenage girls. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
            
              FILE -  In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell enters the courtroom escorted by U.S. Marshalls at the start of her trial, Nov. 29, 2021, in New York. Lawyers for Maxwell urged leniency at sentencing, asking a judge Wednesday, June 15, 2022, to disregard a probation department recommendation of a 20-year prison term for her sex trafficking conviction and role in financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex abuse of teenage girls.  (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams, File)
Lawyers urge leniency at sentencing for Ghislaine Maxwell