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Two top US politicians have demanded to interview Ghislaine Maxwell in prison this week over claims she is receiving “preferential treatment” behind bars.
They have called on US Attorney General Pam Bondi to allow them to visit the jailed former ‘Madam’ of late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who is serving 20 years for sex trafficking.
Democratic Congressmen Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia – who respectively serve on the House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight Committee – released a statement saying they have been alerted to Maxwell’s alleged perks by “more than a dozen whistleblowers”.
Among the claims were that she is allowed to use a laptop computer without supervision and is being given bottled spring water while other inmates drink tap water at the minimum-security women’s Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas.
Congressmen Raskin and Garcia also stated in a letter to the Attorney General that they have received “multiple reports” that prison staff “may have tolerated, encouraged and even engaged in widespread sexual abuse and misconduct” of inmates.
They further allege the prison’s warden, Tanisha Hall, is helping to shield Maxwell, 64, from public scrutiny.
In their letter to Ms Bondi, the politicians say they have been told that Hall has “threatened inmates that if they so much as looked at the press, they would be transferred to mixed-sex prisons more than 1,000 miles away in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.”
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In a separate letter, the lawmakers have asked the Justice Department’s Inspector General to open a criminal investigation into reports of prison employees’ alleged “misconduct.”
Their demand to question Maxwell has been slammed by the one-time British socialite’s lawyer, David O Markus, who said in a statement: “The rule of law matters most when it protects the least popular defendant.
“Humane treatment isn’t special treatment, and political prison tours don’t move the country forward.”
This latest twist in the case comes little over a week before Maxwell – who was transferred to Prison Camp Bryan last year from a much tougher women’s federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida – is scheduled to appear at a Congressional deposition hearing.
Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer confirmed: “Our lawyers have been saying that she’s going to plead the fifth, but we have nailed down a date – February 9 – where Ghislaine Maxwell will be deposed by this committee.”
It was revealed last week in new court papers that Maxwell now claims 29 friends of Epstein, who died in prison in 2019, have been shielded from prosecution as a result of “secret settlements” with the Justice Department.
Her attorneys have filed a habeas corpus petition, seeking to overturn her conviction, arguing that “prosecutors cut deals with Epstein associates while prosecuting her as if no such deals existed.”
