Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime associate and co-conspirator who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking crimes, is reportedly preparing a “commutation application” for the Trump administration to review, according to new allegations from a whistleblower shared with House Democrats.
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee Office has partnered Monday they received information from a whistleblower who indicated that the former British Socialite, 63, was working on filing a commuter application. They also said Maxwell received special treatment at Federal Prison Camp BRYAN in Texas — the minimum-security facility he was transferred to earlier this year.
Congressman Jamie Raskinthe ranking member and top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee of the House, stated in a news released by the prison that “Help the documents to bid cleency.
The exact content of this “commuter application” is unclear, Raskin added.
Raskin said that according to the whistleblower, Maxwell received “customized” meals that were “personally delivered” at private meetings for Maxwell and his guests. The visits are said to involve providing a “special cordoned-off area” for arriving guests, as well as “an assortment of snacks and resoles for his guests”.
Maxwell’s visitors are also reported to bring computers, which, Raskin described in the news given the risk of a computer to stop communications with the outside world “.
In one considered example, the whistleblower said that when the phone lines went down for other inmates, Maxwell gave him his call contacts and when he could be connected to call Maxwell’s Call.
The whistleblower further told the Democrats that Maxwell wants to review and edit the documents “Quickly”, he is “his” personal secretary and assistant “. The news released by the news that Maxwell’s letters will email the documents directly to the warden, who will give them to Maxwell, “who will review them and edit them to the warden who will scan.”
Other privileges allegedly granted to Maxwell will also include time to “Play with” a service desk – as well as private access to the prison’s exercise area.
Maxwell’s lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Guardian about the whistleblower’s claims.
In a statement to the Guardian, Abigail Jackson, a spokeswoman for the White House, said that the “White House does not comment on potential clemency requests”.
“As President Trump has said, pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell is not something he’s thinking about,” Jackson added.
Over the weekend, reports surfaced that Maxwell told friends and family in emails from prison that he was “much happier” in his previous prison.
In August, Maxwell was transferred from a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida, to a minimum security camp in Texas, where most inmates serve time. Non-violent offenses and white collar crimes. The shift, which experts describe as “never before“, It happened just days after he was interviewed about the Epstein case by the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche – who previously served as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.
That interview comes as the Trump administration faces increasing pressure to release more documents related to its own sex-trafficking investigation in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
In Monday’s news release, Raskin also announced that he had sent a LYRICS of Trump, demanding answers about the whistleblower allegations, and also called for the President to reject Maxwell’s Comutut request.
“You should not offer any form of clemency to this convicted and unrepentant sex offender,” Raskin wrote in LYRICS. “Your administration should not provide him with room service, with puppies to play with, with law enforcement officers waiting on him, or with any special treatment or institutional privilege.”
Raskin requested that Blanche appear for a public congressional hearing to discuss the revelations and also asked three questions of Trump.
Raskin asked whether Trump had discussed a potential commutation, or any form of presidential clemency, for Maxwell with Blanche or others, whether he had directed Blanche or anyone else in the administration to provide Maxwell with the transfer to the prison camp, or to give her favorable and preferential treatment in prison, and lastly, whether Maxwell, her attorneys, family or representatives have made any promises to Trump or his attorneys.
Raskin asked for answers to the questions on 24 November.
In October, the US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from Maxwell of his sex-trafficking conviction.