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(NewsNation) — Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice in sex trafficking minor females, will not face a congressional deposition until after the U.S. Supreme Court considers her appeal.
The convicted sex trafficker was subpoenaed by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee last month, requesting her to testify Aug. 11 following the DOJ and FBI’s page-and-a-half memo that said Epstein committed suicide, was not murdered and that there was no “list” of co-conspirators.
Presently, Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for conspiring with Epstein for sexual abuse of minors.
Maxwell spoke with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last week for over nine hours over two days.
Maxwell’s legal team is appealing her case to the Supreme Court in an attempt to overturn her conviction.
On Friday, Rep. James Comer sent a letter to Maxwell stating that her deposition before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee would be postponed until after her Supreme Court issued a determination regarding her appeal, which will be considered Sept. 29.
Her lawyer, David Oscar Markus, said they would only participate if Maxwell was granted immunity, which the committee denied. Comer reiterated the committee’s denial in his letter Friday.
“Regarding your requested conditions, the Committee is willing to continue to engage in good faith negotiations. However, the Committee is unwilling to grant you congressional immunity … at this time. Further, while the Committee is unwilling to send you questions in advance, the Committee will continue its long-standing practice of engaging in forthright and detailed discussions about scoping,” Comer wrote.
Ghislaine Maxwell moved to minimum security prison camp in Texas
Maxwell was transferred from a federal prison in Florida to a federal prison in Texas, NewsNation has confirmed.
Maxwell is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons at the Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Bryan, Texas, the agency told NewsNation.
The New York Sun was the first to report Maxwell’s transfer to the minimum security federal prison in Bryan, Texas, which houses only female inmates.
A statement to CNN from Virginia Giuffre’s family and multiple Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell accusers read, “It is with horror and outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has received. Ghislaine Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children on multiple occasions, and she should never be shown any leniency. Yet, without any notification to the Maxwell victims, the government overnight has moved Maxwell to a minimum-security luxury prison in Texas. This is the justice system failing victims right before our eyes. The American public should be enraged by the preferential treatment being given to a pedophile and a criminally charged child sex offender. The Trump administration should not credit a word Maxwell says, as the government itself sought charges against Maxwell for being a serial liar. This move smacks of a cover up. The victims deserve better.”
A day after the DOJ-FBI joint memo, a source close to the White House told NewsNation that FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino would unseal evidence related to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein if their department could do so.
“I believe with full certainty that if Kash Patel and Dan Bongino had the power to operate separately from the DOJ, that they would have unsealed and released every single piece of evidence they could, while protecting victims, months ago,” the source close to the White House said in July.