The Department of Justice on Monday asked the Supreme Court to reject an appeal request from Ghislaine Maxwell, the one-time girlfriend and associate of late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, stating that her argument against her conviction is incorrect.

Maxwell, who is serving 20 years in prison for conspiring with and aiding Epstein in sexually abusing underage girls, says that a co-conspirator’s clause included in a 2007 non-prosecution agreement with Florida federal prosecutors barred her from being prosecuted in New York, reports ABC News.

“That contention is incorrect, and petitioner does not show that it would succeed in any court of appeals,” U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer, while responding to Maxwell’s request.

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