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Is there an audio feed that can be accessed for Ghislaine Maxwell's trial since the trial will not be televised?

By Alexis Tereszcuk
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Despite a widely circulated post's claim that people could tune in to Ghislaine Maxwell's trial via a telephone number and access code, the public information officer for the U.S. attorney's office in the Southern District of New York told Lead Stories on November 29: "No, no dial-in for the trial."

Attorneys used the number and code included in the post in October 2021 for a pretrial hearing several weeks before Maxwell's trial began on Nov. 29, 2021.

The federal court trial for Maxwell — former girlfriend and alleged co-conspirator of multi-millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — is not being televised in line with the federal ban of electronic media coverage of criminal proceedings.

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US Department of Justice U.S. v. G. Maxwell -- October 2021 hearing
US Courts History of Cameras in Courts
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