The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform “will not consider granting congressional immunity for” any testimony from Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, a spokesperson for the panel said Tuesday.
That statement came shortly after Maxwell’s lawyer told the committee in a letter that she would invoke her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and refuse to testify under a subpoena issued by the panel last week unless a set of conditions were agreed upon in advance.
Those conditions include a grant of immunity from prosecution for her testimony, being given any questions in advance, being questioned outside of prison, and appearing only after her bid to have an appeal of her conviction is resolved by the Supreme Court, her attorney David Oscar Markus wrote.
Markus also said, however, that if “Ms. Maxwell were to receive clemency” from President Donald Trump — who could either pardon her or commute her 20-year prison term — “she would be willing — and eager — to testify openly and honestly, in public, before Congress in Washington, D.C.”
An Oversight spokesperson said, “The Oversight Committee will respond to Ms. Maxwell’s attorney soon, but it will not consider granting congressional immunity for her testimony.”
