Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met on Thursday with Ghislaine Maxwell for several hours at a federal courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team moved forward with appealing her case to the Supreme Court on Monday, three days after the accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein met with a top Justice Department official. The convicted child sex trafficker’s team filed a new brief with the Supreme Court urging it to overturn her conviction.

The Jeffrey Epstein saga that has sucked much of the oxygen of this week's news cycle began a new chapter in Florida's state capital.