The Department of Justice asked Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers, associate of Jeffrey Epstein, if he would be willing to speak with US prosecutors, and the attached attorney general Todd Blanche said Tuesday that he hopes to meet her in the coming days.
The decision to request a meeting with Maxwell occurs at a time when the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, has faced a growing pressure from the president’s supporters, Donald Trump, to disclose additional materials related to Epstein, who committed suicide in a jail cell in 2019 while waiting to be tried for sexual traffic charges.
“President Trump has told us to publish all credible evidence,” Blanche said in a statement published in the social network X.
He also added that if Maxwell “has information about someone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ (Department of Justice) will listen to what she has to say.”
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US Department of Justice asks Ghislaine Maxwell, associate with Epstein, to speak with prosecutors
Blanche said he has been in contact with Maxwell’s lawyers to see if he is willing to talk to prosecutors. “I anticipate meeting with Mrs. Maxwell in the next few days,” he said.
“I can confirm that we are in conversations with the Government and that Ghislaine will always testify with the truth. We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to discover the truth in this case. We have no other comment at this time,” said David Oscar Markus, Maxwell’s lawyer.
Some of Trump’s most staunch supporters requested in recent weeks the resignation of Bondi, after he backed down in a promise he made at the beginning of the year that the department made additional material, including “many names” and “many flight records” in relation to Epstein customers.
After disseminating only a select number of records that did not throw new light on the case, the department and the FBI published a joint memo earlier at the beginning of the month that threw cold water on the long -standing conspiracy theories about Epstein, saying that there is no “list of incriminating clients” or any blackmail evidence.
With Reuters information.
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