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Per new allegations from a informant, Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a two-decade sentence for sex-trafficking crimes, is allegedly readying a commutation application for review by the Trump administration.

Preferential Handling Claimed at Federal Prison

House Democrats on the House judiciary committee revealed that a whistleblower provided information indicating the inmate is working on the clemency petition. They also stated she has been receiving special treatment at the minimum-security facility in the Lone Star State.

Representative Jamie Raskin, the ranking member on the committee, stated in a news release that the facility's chief was assisting the convict with copying, printing, and sending documents to aid her effort for clemency.

The exact content of the clemency request are unknown, Raskin added.

Alleged Privileges and Custom Arrangements

The representative claims that, according to the whistleblower, the prisoner has been given specially prepared food that are hand-delivered to her living area, and the supervisor has “personally arranged” private meetings for Maxwell and her guests.

The visits reportedly involve a designated private space for attendees and a variety of food and drinks for her associates.

Maxwell’s visitors were also allowed to bring computers, which the congressman characterized as an “unprecedented action” given the potential danger and chance of unmonitored communications.

In one alleged instance, when communications failed for other prisoners, she was provided directions about who she should tell her associates to contact and how staff would relay the call to her.

Supervisor Acting as Assistant

The source also allegedly told congressional members that when Maxwell wanted to review and edit documents “quickly”, she “essentially used” the official as her private aide.

The news release indicates that Maxwell’s correspondents would send files directly to the supervisor, who would hand them over to Maxwell, who would review and edit them and return them to the official to digitize and send to the initial correspondent.

Additional Privileges Reported

Other privileges reportedly provided to Maxwell include time to “play with” a trainee assistance dog – a perk not “ordinarily allowed” – as well as private after-hours access to the facility's gym.

Maxwell’s attorney has not yet replied to a inquiry regarding the insider's allegations.

Through a spokesperson, the White House said that it “will not discuss” on potential clemency requests.

“As President Trump has stated, pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell is not something he has thought about,” the spokesperson added.

Context and Developments

Over the weekend, reports surfaced that Maxwell told friends and family in electronic messages that she was “much happier” at the Texas facility than her previous prison.

This past summer, she was moved from a low-security prison in Florida's capital to the minimum-security camp in Texas, where most detainees are incarcerated for non-violent offenses and white-collar crimes.

The transfer, which experts described as “unprecedented”, occurred just days after she was interviewed about the Epstein case by the senior justice official, Todd Blanche, who also once acted as Donald Trump's private attorney.

That interview came as the Trump administration was facing mounting pressure to release more documents related to the ongoing probe and amid intense speculation around Trump's own personal ties to the fallen billionaire and adjudicated criminal, who was found deceased in custody in 2019 while facing trial on trafficking accusations.

Congressional Response

Through the statement, the congressman also revealed that he had sent a letter to the President, requesting explanations about the whistleblower’s allegations, and called on the president to reject Maxwell’s commutation request.

“It would be inappropriate to approve any type of pardon to this convicted and unrepentant sex offender,” Raskin wrote in the document. “The government must not offer her with room service, with puppies to play with, with federal law enforcement officials attending to her requests, or with any preferential handling or institutional privilege at all.”

The congressman asked that the official attend a open legislative session to address the disclosures and also posed three questions to the President.

Raskin asked whether Trump had discussed a possible clemency for Maxwell with Blanche or others, whether he had instructed Blanche or anyone else to arrange her with the move or favorable and preferential treatment in detention, and whether Maxwell, her attorneys, relatives or agents have made any commitments to the President or his legal team.

Raskin has asked for a reply to the questions by 24 November.

In October, the US supreme court declined to hear an appeal from the convict on her sex-trafficking conviction.