Deputy Lawyer Basic Todd Blanche mentioned that he’ll proceed his interview with convicted intercourse trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday and that the Justice Division (DOJ) will share extra details about the discussions at “the suitable time.”
“At present, I met with Ghislaine Maxwell, and I’ll proceed my interview of her tomorrow. The Division of Justice will share extra details about what we realized on the applicable time,” Blanche mentioned in a Thursday night post on X.
Blanche met with Maxwell, who was sentenced to twenty years in jail in 2022, for about 5 hours. Maxwell was a longtime affiliate of Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted intercourse offender and financier.
Maxwell’s lawyer David Oscar Markus mentioned that his consumer answered each query and expressed gratitude to the federal authorities for making an attempt to “uncover the reality.”
“Trying ahead to a different productive day tomorrow. Ghislaine truthfully answered each query that @DAGToddBlanche requested,” the lawyer wrote in a Thursday night post on X. “And she is going to proceed to take action. We’re grateful that the federal government is making an attempt to uncover the reality. They’ve by no means earlier than spoken along with her and we belief the method.”
“He took a full day and requested plenty of questions, and Ms. Maxwell answered each single query,” Markus said to reporters after the interview.
“She by no means stopped. She by no means invoked her privilege,” the lawyer added. “She by no means declined to reply. She answered all of the questions honestly, truthfully and to the very best of her skill.”
The interview with Maxwell in Florida comes as President Trump’s administration is beneath strain from the MAGA base and others to launch extra proof associated to Epstein’s case.
Maxwell is presently interesting her 2021 conviction to the Supreme Courtroom, whereas the DOJ has urged the justices final week to disclaim her request.
Epstein, who ran in high-powered circles, mingling amongst politicians, businessmen and vogue moguls, was discovered lifeless in his jail cell in New York whereas awaiting trial. The medical expert dominated that his demise was a suicide.
The DOJ and FBI reaffirmed the discovering in a joint, unnamed memo earlier this month, stating that Epstein died by suicide and that he didn’t hold the so-called “consumer record.” The memo has infuriated the MAGA base, who’ve been demanding extra transparency. Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi, who mentioned in February she had Epstein’s alleged consumer record “sitting on my desk proper now to assessment,” later objected to releasing extra paperwork, arguing it will be damaging to Epstein’s victims and that the batch was filled with pornographic photographs.
Bondi told Trump in Might throughout a briefing that his identify appeared a number of occasions within the Epstein recordsdata, based on The Wall Avenue Journal. Bondi additionally mentioned many different high-profile figures have been named, however that alone will not be an indication of wrongdoing. The White Home disregarded the report.
“The very fact is that The President kicked him out of his membership for being a creep. That is nothing greater than a continuation of the faux information tales concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media, identical to the Obama Russiagate scandal, which President Trump was proper about,” White Home communications director Steven Cheung mentioned in a press release on Wednesday.
Ian Maxwell said Wednesday night his sister Ghislaine “shall be placing earlier than that courtroom materials new proof that was not obtainable to the protection at her 2021 trial, which might have had a big affect on its final result.”