{"id":470630,"date":"2023-01-07T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=470630"},"modified":"2023-01-17T01:15:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T01:15:22","slug":"ghislaine-maxwell-hires-convicted-sexual-predator-harvey-weinstein-s-lawyer-in-attempt-to-appeal-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ghislaine-maxwell-hires-convicted-sexual-predator-harvey-weinstein-s-lawyer-in-attempt-to-appeal-sentence","title":{"rendered":"Ghislaine Maxwell Hires Convicted Sexual Predator Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s Lawyer In Attempt To Appeal Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>mega Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has sought the expertise of Harvey Weinstein &#8216;s lawyer to appeal her conviction, RadarOnline.com has learned. Maxwell, 61, officially hired Attorney Arthur L. Aidala , who represented Weinstein at his criminal trial, where he was found guilty of rape and sexual assault. In 2021, the 61-year-old former socialite was found guilty of charges related to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal . Eventually, Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years behind bars by a New York court. mega While official documents to appeal her sentence have not yet been filed, Maxwell initiated the first step in the planned process. Aidala confirmed that he filed paperwork on January 6 to represent Maxwell as counsel in an attempt to overturn her sentence. The attorney stated that the planned appeal is not to determine whether or not Maxwell was guilty but rather would take aim at the judge who oversaw the conviction. &#8220;We believe the trial judge made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has sought the expertise of Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s lawyer to appeal her conviction, RadarOnline.com has learned. Maxwell, 61, officially hired Attorney Arthur L. Aidala, who represented<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}