Ghislaine Maxwell Hires Ex-Prosecutors to Help Avoid Prison (1)

Ghislaine Maxwell has hired a multi-lawyer legal team with experience in cases involving murder, terrorism, securities crimes and even a notorious drug lord.

To fight charges she helped Jeffery Epstein sexually abuse girls, Maxwell enlisted two former federal prosecutors in New York, Christopher Everdell and Mark Cohen. She also is using the Denver duo of Laura Menninger and Jeffrey Pagliuca, who were already defending her against civil lawsuits filed by Epstein’s victims.

The team on Friday will request bail for the former socialite, whom the government has labeled an “extreme flight risk.”

In a court filing late Thursday in a ...