Deputy AG to meet Ghislaine Maxwell
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His comments come after Trump's top envoy, Steve Witkoff, said yesterday that he was pulling the U.S. team of negotiators out of Doha, Qatar, after Hamas' latest response in the talks, saying it "clearly shows a lack of desire to reach a ceasefire in Gaza."
The Epstein accomplice met with a top Justice Department official and answered "every single question," her lawyer said.
Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer addressed Trump's remarks after Maxwell met with a top DOJ official for a second day.
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -Even as an uproar over files relating to Jeffrey Epstein engulfs President Donald Trump and Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court is due to wade into the controversy and decide whether to hear a bid by an associate of the late financier and convicted sex offender to overturn her criminal conviction.
Although the meeting with the Department of Justice isn't occurring there, eyes are turning to the state capital's federal women's prison that houses Ghislaine Maxwell, former girlfriend to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and herself a convicted sex trafficker.
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Ghislaine Maxwell was offered a limited form of immunity before she agreed to two consecutive days of questioning from the Department of Justice, sources told ABC News.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with her on Thursday in an attempt to quell a firestorm over the Trump administration’s backtracking on promises to release additional records from the Epstein investigation.
Jeffrey Epstein's associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, and a senior Justice Department official met Friday. Here's how to pronounce her first name correctly.
Experts say they're bewildered by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's decision to interview Ghislaine Maxwell.