{"id":83654,"date":"2025-07-22T16:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/83654\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:41:14","slug":"deputy-attorney-general-to-meet-with-epstein-accomplice-ghislaine-maxwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/83654\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy attorney general to meet with Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche intends to meet with convicted sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in the next several days, Attorney General Pam Bondi said <\/a>Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking in 2021 for <\/a>recruiting and grooming multiple teenage girls<\/a> for over a decade to be sexually abused by Epstein. She was investigated and indicted during the first Trump administration and tried and convicted during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

The meeting was confirmed by Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, who has been requesting meetings with Trump administration officials and has argued that Maxwell did not receive a fair trial<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can confirm that we are in discussions with the government and that Ghislaine will always testify truthfully,” Markus said. “We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case.\u201d<\/p>\n

NBC News has reported that Maxwell did not ask for a plea agreement and was not offered one before her trial, according to statements made by federal prosecutors at the time. After being convicted in New York, she was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.<\/p>\n

\"ToddTodd Blanche at Manhattan Criminal Courtork in 2024. Mark Peterson \/ Pool via Getty Images file <\/p>\n

Blanche, in a statement on Tuesday on X posted by Bondi<\/a>, said the Justice Department stood by its July 6 decision to release no further documents in the Epstein case, which sparked an uproar among Trump supporters that has proven to be one of the largest political challenges of Trump\u2019s second term. The president has repeatedly called on his supporters to move on and focus on other topics, and at one point called them \u201cstupid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump supporters criticized the decision, citing repeated promises from Bondi that she would release documents related to the Epstein case. Multiple Republican members of Congress and right-wing influencers have also criticized Bondi, whom Trump has defended.<\/p>\n

Blaming other prosecutors<\/p>\n

In an unusual step, Blanche appeared to publicly criticize the work of the Justice Department prosecutors who investigated Epstein during George W. Bush\u2019s second term, Trump\u2019s first term and Biden\u2019s term. <\/p>\n

“Until now, no administration on behalf of the Department had inquired about her willingness to meet with the government.” Blanche said, referring to Maxwell. “That changes now.”<\/p>\n

“Justice demands courage,” Blanche added in a separate X post. <\/a>“For the first time, the Department of Justice is reaching out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: what do you know?” <\/p>\n

Legal experts have questioned the credibility of Maxwell’s claims, given her role in enabling Epstein’s abuse of minors for over a decade. They have also criticized the investigation of Epstein carried out by the Justice Department during the George W. Bush administration. <\/p>\n

In a 2008 plea deal<\/a> overseen by then-U.S. Attorney in South Florida Alex Acosta, Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges of procuring a person under 18 for prostitution and felony solicitation of prostitution. <\/p>\n

The agreement required Epstein to register as a sex offender and serve about a year in a Florida county jail. But he was able to leave almost daily for work<\/a>, and was allowed to have his own private security detail behind bars.<\/p>\n

\"jeffJeffrey Epstein on March 28, 2017.New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP file<\/p>\n

Eleven years later, Epstein was indicted on July 8, 2019<\/a>, during Trump’s first administration, on federal charges of sex trafficking minors in New York. His case ended after he was found dead in his jail cell roughly one month later. <\/p>\n

A medical examiner\u2019s office ruled he died by suicide, a conclusion that Bondi and Blanche supported in the July 6 statement issued by the Justice Department and the FBI. <\/p>\n

Roughly a year later, Maxwell was indicted indicted<\/a> on federal charges on July 9, 2020. Maxwell was found guilty on Dec. 29, 2021, of multiple counts of conspiring to sex traffic minors and later sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. But her trial did not reveal proof that other men sexually abused the minors.<\/p>\n

Continued conspiracy theories<\/p>\n

For years, the cause of Epstein\u2019s death, his high-profile contacts, <\/a>his initial plea bargain, and the graphic details of his alleged crimes have fueled conspiracy theories<\/a> and demands that the government release all it knows about the case. <\/p>\n

Trump helped fuel these theories in the past, saying during his presidential campaign last year that he would have \u201cno problem\u201d looking into an Epstein client list.<\/p>\n

After becoming attorney general, Bondi repeatedly promised to release documents related to the Epstein case. In a Fox News interview in February<\/a>, Bondi said an Epstein client list was \u201csitting on my desk right now to review.\u201d <\/p>\n

FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino also called for the release of Epstein documents before being chosen by Trump for their current positions. <\/p>\n

But the July 6 joint statement <\/a>by the DOJ and FBI said that an exhaustive internal review of Epstein-related records had not produce enough evidence to prosecute any other individuals. <\/p>\n

“A systematic review revealed no incriminating ‘client list,'” the agencies said. “There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”<\/p>\n

\"Image:Ghislaine Maxwell at the start of her trial in 2021.Jane Rosenberg \/ Reuters<\/p>\n

Multiple federal judges have rejected appeals of Maxwell’s conviction, and her current appeal is before the Supreme Court. She is serving her 20-year sentence at a federal prison in Florida.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., continued to criticize Trump’s handling of the Epstein case. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf you tell the base of people, who support you, of deep state treasonous crimes, election interference, blackmail, and rich powerful elite evil cabals, then you must take down every enemy of The People,\u201d Greene said in a social media post<\/a>. \u201cIf not. The base will turn and there\u2019s no going back. <\/p>\n

“Dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies,” she added. “They want the whole steak dinner and will accept nothing else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche intends to meet with convicted sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":83655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-83654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114897884542563566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}