Prosecutors and defense attorneys arrived at the federal courthouse in downtown Tallahassee at about 9 a.m. to kick off , Jeffrey Epstein's right-hand woman in the decade-long sex-trafficking scheme the two orchestrated.

Maxwell's defense attorney, David Markus, walked up to the courthouse and briefly spoke to reporters, while federal prosecutors dodged the cameras and entered the courthouse through a back entrance in two SUVs in tinted windows.

The second-highest-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice, alongside other department representatives, spent all of July 24 probing Maxwell for information in hopes of finding any new leads in the Epstein case.

After a nearly eight-hour question-and-answer session, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche posted on social media that

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