DOJ Questions Ghislaine Maxwell
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Earlier Wednesday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer issued the subpoena to Maxwell, which proposes that she be deposed August 11 in the low security women’s prison in Florida where she has been serving her 20-year-sentence for sex trafficking and conspiracy to recruit underage girls for sex acts.
President Trump is facing fierce backlash for how his administration has handled the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal.
Mr Trump attended a dinner organised by Maxwell at Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan in honour of her close friend the Duke of York in 1999, according to The New York Post.
"Everybody around him was kind of like, ‘oh God, we hope she won’t say anything but we really hope he doesn’t pardon her.'"
Biographer Michael Wolff alleges that Trump contemplated pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell after her arrest, fearing what she might disclose.