Federal judge slaps down Ghislaine Maxwell petition for new trial as ‘rambling,’ ‘meritless’

A federal judge rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s latest effort to overturn her conviction, blasting her petition as "lengthy and rambling" and finding her claims "all meritless" and "all or almost all" frivolous.

U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer denied Maxwell’s post-conviction challenge in an opinion filed Monday in the Southern District of New York and made public Tuesday, writing that the evidence against the convicted Jeffrey Epstein associate at trial was "overwhelming."

Maxwell...