
Ghislaine Maxwell
Subpoenaed By Congress …
As Judge Denies DOJ Request to Unseal Grand Jury Docs
Published
1:22 PM PT — Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer David Oscar Markus tells TMZ … “We perceive Speaker Johnson’s basic concern—Congress ought to all the time vet the credibility of its witnesses. But on this case, these considerations are unfounded. If Ms. Maxwell agrees to testify earlier than Congress and never take the fifth—and that continues to be a giant if—she would testify honestly, as she all the time has mentioned she would and as she is going to with Mr. Blanche. The fact shouldn’t be feared or preemptively dismissed. No earlier prosecutor from the Southern District of New York or elsewhere has had the braveness to fulfill with Ms. Maxwell and ask her these essential questions.
So we’re grateful to Mr. Blanche and his DOJ that they’re approaching this with an open thoughts. That’s how our system is meant to work. As for the Congressional subpoena, Ms. Maxwell is taking this one step at a time. She appears to be like ahead to her assembly with the Department of Justice, and that dialogue will assist inform how she proceeds.”
Ghislaine Maxwell has been subpoenaed by the United States Congress amid questions in regards to the so-called Epstein Files.
Republican Congressman James Comer — the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chair — introduced the information Wednesday … sharing a press release which reads, partially, “The facts and circumstances surrounding both your and Mr. Epstein’s cases have received immense public interest and scrutiny.”
Congress desires to set the deposition for August 11 at Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee, the place Maxwell is incarcerated.
Maxwell was accused of soliciting and grooming minors for abuse and intercourse crimes from 1994 to 2004 … and was convicted on 5 counts, together with intercourse trafficking of a minor in December 2021. She was sentenced to twenty years in federal prison about 6 months later.
The announcement of the subpoena comes on the identical day a U.S. federal decide denied the Justice Department’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts associated to one among Jeffrey Epstein’s federal investigations … with the decide claiming the division’s request did not meet any of the exceptions which might permit the discharge of such testimony.
Of course, many are demanding for the discharge of the information after members of the Trump administration assured the general public no consumer checklist exists … a stark departure from previous feedback made throughout the presidential election final yr and even earlier in his first six months in workplace.
President Trump himself has instructed curious inquirers to cease asking about Epstein … popping off angrily in a fashion which some conservatives have defended.
However, a current article by the Wall Street Journal alleging Trump drew the silhouette of a unadorned lady to incorporate in a 2003 birthday letter to Epstein raised much more eyebrows … although Trump has since sued the Journal’s dad or mum firm for the story he says it whole BS.
It appears to be like like Republicans aren’t dropping this investigation … and, Maxwell might inform all quickly sufficient.