NEW YORK CITY, NY - MARCH 15: Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend de Grisogono Sponsors The 2005 Wall Street Concert Series Benefitting Wall Street Rising, with a Performance by Rod Stewart at Cipriani Wall Street on March 15, 2005 in New York City. (Photo by Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday that he expects to meet convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell “in the coming days” to discuss potential evidence in the case of her late partner, Jeffrey Epstein.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has contacted Maxwell’s legal team “to determine whether she would be willing to speak with prosecutors from the Department” about Epstein, Blanche said in a statement posted on X by Attorney General Pam Bondi. The move was made at Bondi’s behest, the statement said, as she and others in President Donald Trump’s circle face skepticism across partisan lines over whether they have done enough to reveal information on Epstein’s sex trafficking operation and those who may have been involved in it.
“President Trump has told us to release all credible evidence,” Blanche said. “If Ghislane Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say.”
Blanche did not identify the lawyers for Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 for grooming women as young as 14 to be sexually abused by Epstein. The well-connected financier was found dead in 2019 in a jail cell, ostensibly by suicide, after facing his own sex trafficking charges.
Trump’s DOJ has concluded that Epstein had no “client list” and reaffirmed that he died by suicide, according to a memo leaked in July. The report flew in the face of longtime speculation about whether numerous powerful figures were involved in Epstein’s crimes.
The news came months after the Trump administration invited conservative influencers to receive copies of “Epstein files” that revealed scarce new information. Bondi had also signaled publicly that she was reviewing an Epstein “client list” prior to the July 6 memo claiming there was none.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino reportedly confronted Bondi over her approach and threatened to quit in frustration, according to multiple reports citing anonymous sources. Multiple Trump administration officials told the Daily Caller they were displeased with the DOJ’s confused messaging on the case.
House Democrats followed up by pushing for votes to require the DOJ to release more Epstein-related documents, meeting resistance from Republicans.
The DOJ also petitioned a Manhattan court on Friday to unseal grand jury testimony from the department’s Epstein case following backlash against the department’s report.
“This Department of Justice does not shy away from uncomfortable truths, nor from the responsibility to pursue justice wherever the facts may lead,” Blanche said Tuesday.
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