Ghislaine Maxwell, a co-conspirator of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is asking President Donald Trump to commute his 20-year prison sentence, a whistleblower told House Democrats.
The whistleblower provided information to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee and also claimed that Maxwell was given preferential treatment in prison.
“The file is large and there are so many attachments that I am having trouble keeping it all together,” Maxwell wrote in an email to her attorney, Leaf Safian, seen by NBC News. The subject of the email is “Application for commuting allowance.”
House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., in a letter to Trump on Monday called on the administration to release information about the reduction request and urged Trump to deny the request.
“This convicted and unrepentant sex offender should not be granted any form of pardon,” Raskin wrote. “The government should not provide her with room service, play with her puppy, have her every need attended to by federal law enforcement officers, or provide her with any special treatment or institutional privileges.”
Mr. Raskin asked Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to appear at a Congressional hearing to discuss the revelations.
A whistleblower, whose identity was not disclosed by the committee, said Maxwell was transferred to a minimum-security prison camp where she received what she called “concierge-style” treatment, including customized meals, permission to go to the playground after hours, and time to play with a puppy that the inmate was training to become a service dog.
The whistleblower also claimed that POW camp leaders complained that they were “tired of having to be Maxwell’s bitch.”
NBC News has reached out to Maxwell’s lawyers and the White House for comment.
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