The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s challenge to her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein .

The decision means that Maxwell’s conviction on three counts and her 20-year criminal sentence remain in place.

Maxwell’s lawyers argued in court papers that an agreement Epstein made with prosecutors in Florida, in which the then-U.S. attorney pledged not to prosecute him or potential co-conspirators, should apply to one of the three counts in her case, which was prosecuted in New York. A statue titled “Best Friends Forever” depicting Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands appeared on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and was removed by U.S. Park Police the next day.

At issue in Maxwell’s appeal is whether the term

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