The US Senate unanimously approved a resolution on Wednesday opposing any presidential pardon or other form of executive clemency for Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking offences, according to The New York Post.

Maxwell, who has been convicted on sex trafficking charges, was associated with Epstein for decades before he died in a New York jail cell.

Longtime Epstein associate serving 20-year sentence for sex-trafficking crimes has exhausted series of appeals