https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-maxwell-q-anon-hearing-20210119-b5liwmphhzf6xolytsktawxozq-story.html A routine court hearing on the unsealing of documents in a civil case against Ghislaine Maxwell was overwhelmed Tuesday by more than 14,000 followers of the insane QAnon conspiracy theory. A conference line used by reporters and the public to listen to the remote proceeding was at capacity. A YouTube personality who managed to get access to the hearing broadcast it on his channel to more than 14,000 listeners who shared bizarre conspiracies about a global sex trafficking cabal in a livechat. Ghislaine Maxwell attends the La Mer and Oceana celebration for World Ocean Day 2008 at 620 Loft & Garden June 4, 2008 in New York City. Ghislaine Maxwell attends the La Mer and Oceana celebration for World Ocean Day 2008 at 620 Loft & Garden June 4, 2008 in New York City. (Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images) Word of the livestream reached Manhattan Federal Judge Loretta Preska, who halted the hearing. “Whoever is doing this, you are operating against the law. I suspect there’s a way to find out, so I will ask you most respectfully to stop doing it. We’ve had enough of a lack of the rule of law around here, let’s try to observe it,” she said. The YouTube stream was then cut. Court rules ban recording or rebroadcasting of hearings. [More New York] NYC man accidentally sets himself on fire while lighting cigarette » Maxwell is awaiting trial on charges of grooming victims of Jeffrey Epstein in the mid-1990s. Preska is overseeing the lengthy process of unsealing documents in a civil suit brought by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre against Maxwell. Epstein’s underage sex trafficking scheme is fodder for QAnon conspiracy theorists who believe the world is is controlled by Satan-worshipping cannibalistic pedophiles. Maxwell has pleaded not guilty.