Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer says DOJ requested her about roughly “100 totally different individuals” on 2nd day of interview

Washington — Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer mentioned the previous accomplice of convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein answered “each single query” throughout the 2 days she met with Todd Blanche, a high Justice Division official. 

“She was requested possibly about 100 totally different individuals. She answered questions on all people, and he or she did not maintain something again,” Maxwell’s lawyer David Oscar Markus mentioned Friday. 

“They requested about each single, each doable factor you may think about — every thing,” he mentioned. 

Maxwell, who’s serving a 20-year jail sentence for her function in serving to Epstein recruit, groom and abuse underage women, met Thursday and Friday with Blanche, the deputy lawyer normal, on the U.S. lawyer’s workplace in Tallahassee. 

Blanche mentioned Thursday the Justice Division would share extra about what the federal government discovered in these conferences “on the applicable time.” 

The Trump administration has struggled to take care of the backlash over its dealing with of Epstein’s case after a number of officers, together with President Trump, spent years urgent for the discharge of extra particulars. However a current Justice Division evaluate concluded Epstein didn’t have a “consumer checklist” and confirmed he died by suicide in 2019 in jail, shortly after he was indicted on federal intercourse trafficking costs. 

The conclusions have angered those that have pushed claims that the information have been hid to guard Epstein’s alleged checklist of distinguished purchasers. 

Mr. Trump has tried to distance himself from Epstein, who was as soon as a buddy, and has referred to as the controversy a “hoax.” 

On Friday, Mr. Trump mentioned he had not thought of a pardon for Maxwell. 

“It is one thing I have never considered,” he informed reporters earlier than leaving for Scotland. “I am allowed to do it, but it surely’s one thing I’ve not considered.” 

Maxwell’s lawyer mentioned they have not requested for something from the administration in return for her testimony, however they’d welcome “any aid.” 

“We’ve not spoken to the president or anyone a couple of pardon simply but,” he mentioned. “The president this morning mentioned he had the facility to take action. We hope he workout routines that energy in the precise and simply approach.” 

Maxwell was subpoenaed this week by the Home Oversight Committee, which needs her to testify subsequent month. Markus mentioned they hadn’t decided about whether or not to conform to questioning. 

Ashley Dickey contributed reporting.