Meeting comes amid growing pressure on Trump administration to release Jeffrey Epstein documents
The Jeffrey Epstein files scandal swirling around Donald Trump and his administration continued to escalate on Thursday as officials from the Department of Justice met with the late sex offender’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell, whose lawyer said she “answered every question … honestly and to the best of her ability”.
Todd Blanche, the US deputy attorney general, arrived on Thursday morning at the office of the US attorney in Tallahassee, Florida, ABC News reported. The state prosecutor’s office is based in the federal courthouse in the Florida capital and Maxwell’s lawyers were also seen entering the building, the TV network reported.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking and other crimes at a federal prison in Florida, after being convicted in New York in late 2021.
On Thursday afternoon, Maxwell’s attorney David Markus said that his team and Blanche had a “very productive day”, Fox News reported, adding that Markus declined to comment on whether Maxwell and Blanche would meet again on Friday.
