Ghislaine Maxwell will not be sprung from jail like Cosby: federal judge

A federal judge on Friday rejected ghislaine-maxwell” target=”_blank”>Ghislaine Maxwell’s< dismissed in the wake of bill-cosby” target=”_blank”>Bill Cosby’<

The disgraced comic was let out of prison in June after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court found a prosecutor’s decades-old agreement should have shielded him from being charged with crime.

“Even if this Court agreed with the analysis in [Cosby’s case], that opinion sheds no light on the proper interpretation of the NPA in this case,” Nathan wrote.

The judge also dismissed Maxwell’s claim that prosecutors had waited too long to charge her with trafficking crimes that allegedly took place between 2001 and 2004.

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Maxwell also unsuccessfully argued it was unfair for prosecutors to use her testimony from a lawsuit filed by accuser Virginia Giuffre to build a criminal case.

The 59-year-old British socialite has pleaded not guilty to an eight-count indictment accusing her of grooming underage rape victims for the late financier. If convicted, she faces 80 years behind bars.

She is being held in a new-york-city” target=”_blank”>Brooklyn< to read more on the New York Post.

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