Rep. Jamie Raskin sent a sharply worded six-page letter to President Donald Trump on Sunday following new information his committee received from a whistleblower. The whistleblower alleges that Ghislaine Maxwell is preparing a “commutation application” for the Trump administration and receiving preferential treatment while incarcerated.
Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, accused the Trump administration of allowing “a corrupt misuse of law-enforcement resources.” He demanded that Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche testify before the Judiciary Committee immediately to “answer for this corrupt misuse of law enforcement resources and potential exchange of favors for false testimony exonerating you and other Epstein accomplices.”
The letter serves as a follow-up to an August 12 letter that Raskin and other Democrats sent to the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Prisons regarding Maxwell’s transfer to Federal Prison Camp Bryan. This minimum-security facility, according to Raskin, represents an “apparent flagrant violation of BOP policies,” including one that explicitly prohibits the placement of sex offenders in such facilities.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for child sex trafficking and other offenses connected to Jeffrey Epstein, the former financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide in jail in 2019.
Previously, Maxwell was held at FCI Tallahassee in Florida, a “low security” prison for men and women. FPC Bryan, where she was transferred, is a “minimum security” camp exclusively for women. The transfer followed Maxwell’s two-day meeting in July with Deputy Attorney General Blanche in Tallahassee. During this meeting, her attorney stated that they discussed “about 100 names” associated with Epstein, after the Trump administration promised to release additional information about the deceased sex offender.
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