WASHINGTON — Home Republicans subpoenaed Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell for a deposition subsequent month, citing the “immense public curiosity and scrutiny” surrounding her case and voluminous federal investigative information on the infamous deceased pedophile.
Maxwell is tentatively scheduled to sit down for a deposition Aug. 11 on the Federal Correctional Establishment Tallahassee, the place she has been serving a 20-year jail sentence since 2022 after being convicted of collaborating in a intercourse trafficking conspiracy involving the abuse of dozens of minors — some as younger as 14 years outdated.
“Whereas the Justice Division undertakes efforts to uncover and publicly disclose extra info associated to your and Mr. Epstein’s circumstances, it’s crucial that Congress conduct oversight of the federal authorities’s enforcement of intercourse trafficking legal guidelines typically and particularly its dealing with of the investigation and prosecution of you and Mr. Epstein,” wrote Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) in a canopy letter accompanying the subpoena.
“Specifically, the Committee seeks your testimony to tell the consideration of potential legislative options to enhance federal efforts to fight intercourse trafficking and reform using non-prosecution agreements and/or plea agreements in sex-crime investigations.”
The Oversight panel’s subcommittee Activity Power on the Declassification of Federal Secrets and techniques had requested a Division of Justice briefing on the federal probe of Epstein and subsequently the discharge of “the whole lot of the Epstein information.”
To date, the DOJ has declined to launch all however a handful of paperwork beforehand disclosed as a part of Maxwell’s trial, which led to a conviction in December 2021.
On July 6, a joint DOJ-FBI memo concluded that Epstein, 66, dedicated suicide in his Manhattan lockup on Aug. 10, 2019, and that there was no “shopper checklist” of different perverts aware of the sickening scheme, no foundation to cost third events and “no credible proof discovered that Epstein blackmailed distinguished people as a part of his actions.”
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Deputy Legal professional Normal Todd Blanche on Tuesday revealed that he was additionally planning to satisfy with Maxwell “within the coming days.”
“President Trump has advised us to launch all credible proof. If Maxwell has details about anybody who has dedicated crimes towards victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say,” Blanche stated in an announcement.
“Till now, no administration on behalf of the Division had inquired about her willingness to satisfy with the federal government. That adjustments now.”
David Oscar Markus, Maxwell’s lawyer, stated in assertion that his shopper “is taking this one step at a time. She appears to be like ahead to her assembly with the Division of Justice, and that dialogue will assist inform how she proceeds.”
“If Ms. Maxwell agrees to testify earlier than Congress and never take the fifth—and that is still a giant if—she would testify honestly, as she at all times has stated she would and as she’s going to with Mr. Blanche,” added Markus.
“The reality shouldn’t be feared or preemptively dismissed. No earlier prosecutor from the Southern District of New York or elsewhere has had the braveness to satisfy with Ms. Maxwell and ask her these essential questions. So we’re grateful to Mr. Blanche and his DOJ that they’re approaching this with an open thoughts. That’s how our system is meant to work.”
