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7/23/2025, 4:30:24 AM No.511102700
Uproar over the Trump administration's handling of files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation continues to grip Washington, prompting the Justice Department on Tuesday to schedule an unusual meeting with Epstein's top confidant, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the House Oversight Committee to move to subpoena her testimony amid bipartisan calls for transparency in the case.
The renewed focus on Maxwell comes amid persistent questions over Trump’s years-long friendship with Epstein, the late and disgraced financier whose sprawling sex-trafficking ring victimized more than 200 women and girls.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence in federal prison for her role in perpetuating one of the most expansive sex-trafficking rings in modern U.S. history.
It is the first time the Justice Department has approached Maxwell's counsel for a meeting, according to the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, who wrote in a statement that he would take the meeting himself "to ask: What do you know?"
"No one is above the law — and no lead is off-limits," said Blanche, formerly one of Trump's personal attorneys.
Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Markus, called Trump "the ultimate dealmaker" earlier this month, and said this week that Maxwell's team is "grateful to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case.”
"Ghislaine Maxwell is a federal prisoner right now. Obviously, she wants a pardon, so she will probably sing from whatever hymnal Donald Trump tells her to sing from," Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, told CNN this week.
"No, I don't. I don't. I don't trust them," he said. "I'm big on clarity and transparency, and that's a good reason people don't trust government in either party."
>https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-07-22/all-eyes-on-ghislaine-maxwell-as-longtime-epstein-aide-seeks-prison-relief
The renewed focus on Maxwell comes amid persistent questions over Trump’s years-long friendship with Epstein, the late and disgraced financier whose sprawling sex-trafficking ring victimized more than 200 women and girls.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence in federal prison for her role in perpetuating one of the most expansive sex-trafficking rings in modern U.S. history.
It is the first time the Justice Department has approached Maxwell's counsel for a meeting, according to the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, who wrote in a statement that he would take the meeting himself "to ask: What do you know?"
"No one is above the law — and no lead is off-limits," said Blanche, formerly one of Trump's personal attorneys.
Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Markus, called Trump "the ultimate dealmaker" earlier this month, and said this week that Maxwell's team is "grateful to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case.”
"Ghislaine Maxwell is a federal prisoner right now. Obviously, she wants a pardon, so she will probably sing from whatever hymnal Donald Trump tells her to sing from," Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, told CNN this week.
"No, I don't. I don't. I don't trust them," he said. "I'm big on clarity and transparency, and that's a good reason people don't trust government in either party."
>https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-07-22/all-eyes-on-ghislaine-maxwell-as-longtime-epstein-aide-seeks-prison-relief
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