“The United States also agrees that it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein.”

Of the many long tails of the Jeffrey Epstein saga, that phrase, embedded in his 2007 plea deal with federal prosecutors, carried the most immediate legal weight for Ghislaine Maxwell, the late financier’s ex-girlfriend and accomplice. Over a summer of backlash to Donald Trump ’s administration’s handling of the Epstein files, the British socialite, convicted in 2021 of facilitating Epstein’s sexual abuse of minors, returned to the fore as a theoretical Rosetta stone for the mysteries that continue to haunt the ever relevant case. More quietly, Maxwell was pursuing an effort to overturn her conviction on the basis that the sweetheart deal, and its cruci

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