Ghislaine Maxwell eyeing commutation, whistleblower tells House Democrats | Ghislaine Maxwell
Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime partner and accomplice who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking crimes, is reportedly preparing a “commitment application” for the Trump administration to review, according to new allegations from a whistleblower shared with House Democrats.
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee announced On Monday, they said they had received information from a tipster that the 63-year-old British former socialite was trying to apply for commutation. They also said Maxwell received special treatment at the Bryan federal prison camp in Texas; This camp was the minimum security facility to which he was transferred earlier this year.
Congressman Jamie RaskinThe ranking member and top Democrat on the House judiciary committee noted in a press release that the prison warden also “helped” Maxwell “copy, print, and send documents” for her clemency request.
Raskin added that the exact content of this “exchange exercise” is unclear.
Raskin notes that Maxwell received “personalized” meals that were “personally delivered” to her cell, and the warden “personally” arranged private meetings for Maxwell and her visitors, according to the tipster. The visits allegedly included providing a “specially cordoned area” for visitors to arrive, as well as “a variety of snacks and drinks for guests.”
Maxwell’s visitors were also reportedly allowed to bring computers; Raskin described it in the news release as “an unprecedented action by the Warden, given the security risk and the potential for Ms. Maxwell to use a computer to conduct unmonitored communications with the outside world.”
In one alleged case, the tipster said that when other inmates’ phone lines were cut, Maxwell was given specific instructions on who to tell her contacts to call and how to connect those staff members to relay the call to Maxwell.
The whistleblower also reportedly told House Democrats that Maxwell “essentially used” the director as her “personal secretary and administrative assistant” when she wanted to “quickly” review and edit documents. The news release states that Maxwell’s reporters will email the documents directly to the Director, who will provide them to Maxwell, “who will review and edit them and return them to the Director for scanning and forwarding to the original sender.”
Other privileges allegedly granted to Maxwell include “play” time with the service dog pup (a perk the news release noted “is not normally allowed”) and special after-hours access to the prison exercise area.
Maxwell’s lawyer did not immediately respond to the Guardian’s request for comment on the whistleblower’s allegations.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told the Guardian that “the White House does not comment on possible clemency requests.”
“As President Trump has stated, pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell is not something he is considering,” Jackson added.
Reports emerged over the weekend that Maxwell had told friends and family in emails from prison that she was “much happier” at the Texas facility than in her previous prison.
In August, Maxwell was moved from a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida, to a minimum-security camp in Texas where most of the inmates are imprisoned. non-violent crimes and white-collar crimes. The transfer that experts define as follows:unprecedented” incident occurred just days after Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who previously served as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, was interviewed about the Epstein case.
The interview comes as the Trump administration faces growing pressure to release more documents related to the Epstein investigation and amid intense speculation about Trump’s personal ties to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, who was found dead in a New York prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
In a press release on Monday, Raskin also announced that he had sent a message. letter He demanded a response to the Trump whistleblower’s allegations and also called on the president to reject Maxwell’s request for relief.
“There should be no clemency granted to this convicted and unrepentant sex offender,” Raskin wrote. letter. “Your management should not provide him with room service, puppies to play with, federal law enforcement officers tending to his every need, or any special treatment or institutional privileges.”
Raskin requested that Blanche attend a public congressional hearing to discuss the statements and also asked Trump three questions.
Raskin asked whether Trump had discussed with Blanche or others a potential commutation or any presidential pardon for Maxwell, whether he had directed Blanche or anyone in the administration that Maxwell be transferred to a prison camp or that she be given preferential and preferential treatment in prison, and finally whether Maxwell, her lawyers, her family, or her representatives had made any promises to Trump or his lawyers.
Raskin requested answers to his questions by November 24.
In October, the US supreme court refused to hear Maxwell’s appeal of her sex trafficking conviction.
