Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell wants immunity and an advance look at the questions if Congress expects her to publicly testify about her ex-boyfriend, Jeffrey Epstein. She also wants a pardon.
Maxwell's defense lawyer, David Markus, laid out his client's conditions in a July 29 letter to Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky, who issued a subpoena for Maxwell's testimony last week. Comer, who heads the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has said he wants to hear from Maxwell as he looks at how the federal government enforces sex-trafficking laws and what happened in the cases against her and Epstein.
Epstein died in jail in 2019 while awaiting a federal sex-trafficking trial. He was previously convicted in 2008 of two Florida prostitution offenses, in what many consider a sweetheart plea deal.
The disgraced financier was sentenced to just 18 months behind bars, despite facing serious allegations of sex crimes involving minors. About a decade later, New York federal prosecutors brought a sex-trafficking indictment against him.
Last week, Maxwell spoke with Justice Department officials over the course of two days as the Trump administration seeks to quell public outrage over its early July announcement that it didn't find evidence in its Epstein-related files to justify investigating anyone else, and that it won't be releasing the files.
