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U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan
said Maxwell remained a "significant risk of flight" and that no
conditions, including her proposed $28.5 million bail package,
would reasonably assure she would show up in court.
Maxwell, 59, has pleaded not guilty to charges she helped the
financier Jeffrey Epstein recruit and groom three teenage girls
for sex between 1994 and 1997, and lied about her role.
She has been held in a Brooklyn jail since her arrest last July,
which came 11 months after Epstein died in his Manhattan jail
cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Lawyers for Maxwell did not immediately respond to requests for
comment.
After Nathan rejected two prior bail requests, Maxwell on Feb.
23 offered to renounce her non-U.S. citizenships, and move most
of her and her husband's assets into an account to be monitored
by a retired federal judge.
Her lawyers said Maxwell wanted to defend herself at trial, and
the new conditions should assuage concern she might seek a "safe
haven" in the United Kingdom or France.
But the judge said Maxwell could still resist extradition if she
fled, and even with the monitor still had access to "sufficient"
assets to help her evade prosecution.
Nathan is also considering 12 motions by Maxwell to dismiss,
narrow or weaken the government's criminal case.
Maxwell has said the government targeted her only because
Epstein killed himself and prosecutors wanted someone else to
blame, and that she was covered by Epstein's own 2008
non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors in Florida.
The case is U.S. v. Maxwell, U.S. District Court, Southern
District of New York, No. 20-cr-00330.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Matthew
Lewis)
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