#Guard stood ‘knee to knee’ with Ghislaine Maxwell in commode

A jail guard stood “knee to knee” with Ghislaine Maxwell as she used the bathroom at her Brooklyn lockup — in an attempt to intimidate and humiliate the accused madam, her lawyer claimed in court papers filed Monday night.

The guard, a “team leader” at the Metropolitan Detention Center, suspected Maxwell of improperly taking legal papers from her attorney, Bobbi Sternheim, after the pair met to discuss her case on Saturday, according to the filing.

A group of guards confiscated Maxwell’s legal documents and threatened her with punishment for allegedly taking non-approved papers from her attorneys, her lawyer alleged.

“We want you to know that what you did was a very serious infraction. It was so serious
that it is worthy of an incident report and a disciplinary. It has been decided this time you
will receive a caution,” guards told Maxwell after they sifted through the documents, the court papers state.

Maxwell was then given permission to use the bathroom, where a guard allegedly decided to intimidate her further.

“Unlike any other occasion, the guard team leader stood knee to knee with Ms. Maxwell while Ms. Maxwell sat on the commode in the small area containing one toilet and a sink,” Sternheim wrote in the letter to Judge Alison Nathan.

“Having a guard standing over her while she used the commode caused Ms. Maxwell to feel intimidated and humiliated.”

The letter was filed the same day Maxwell attorney David Markus pleaded with a federal appeals court to release her on bail pending her trial in the Southern District of New York.

Maxwell is facing 80 years in prison on charges related to allegedly procuring underage girls for multimillionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse in the 1990s and early 2000s.

She’s pleaded not guilty to all counts and maintains her innocence.