Deputy Attorney General To Meet With Epstein Accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will meet pinch convicted activity trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein subordinate Ghislaine Maxwell successful nan adjacent respective days, Attorney General Pam Bondi said connected Tuesday morning.

Maxwell was convicted of activity trafficking successful 2021 for recruiting and grooming aggregate teenage girls for complete a decade to beryllium sexually abused by Epstein. She was investigated and indicted during nan first Trump management and tried and convicted during nan Biden administration.

The gathering was confirmed by Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Markus, who has been requesting meetings pinch Trump management officials and has suggested that Maxwell should beryllium freed.

“I tin corroborate that we are successful discussions pinch nan authorities and that Ghislaine will ever attest truthfully," Markus said. "We are grateful to President Trump for his committedness to uncovering nan truth successful this case.”

NBC News has reported that Maxwell did not inquire for a plea statement and was not offered 1 starring up to her trial, according to statements made by national prosecutors successful pre-trial hearings astatine nan time. After being convicted successful a proceedings successful New York, she was sentenced to 20 years successful national prison.

In a statement, Blanche said nan Justice Department stood by its July 6 connection that "no grounds was uncovered" that different individuals should beryllium charged successful nan Epstein case. He said nan connection "remains arsenic meticulous coming arsenic it was erstwhile it was written."

Blanche past appeared to knock nan activity of prosecutors overseen by then-Attorney General Bill Barr during nan investigation and indictment of Epstein and Maxwell during Trump's first term. He besides appeared to knock nan activity of prosecutors overseen by Attorney General Merrick Garland who prosecuted Maxwell nether nan Biden administration.

"Until now, nary management connected behalf of nan Department had inquired astir her willingness to meet pinch nan government," she said. "That changes now."

Maxwell was recovered blameworthy connected Dec. 29, 2021, of conspiracy to entice minors to recreation to prosecute successful forbidden activity acts; conspiracy to carrier minors to participate successful forbidden activity acts; transporting a insignificant to participate successful forbidden activity acts; activity trafficking conspiracy; and activity trafficking of a minor.

She has appealed her condemnation and is serving her 20-year condemnation astatine a national situation successful Florida.