The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell , leaving in place her conviction and 20-year prison sentence for trafficking underage girls in a scheme with the late financier.

Maxwell, 62, had asked the high court to review whether she was improperly prosecuted despite Epstein’s 2007 non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors in Florida. Her lawyers argued the agreement should have shielded her from charges brought by a separate U.S. attorney’s office in New York over a decade later.

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