She is to make her plea to President Donald Trump.
Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime co-conspirator of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is preparing a commutation application to be reviewed by the Trump administration, according to a new document obtained by the House Judiciary Committee Democrats.
If approved by President Donald Trump, Maxwell could see her sentence — 20 years for her role in Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme — significantly reduced. She wrote in an apparent message to her lawyer Leah Saffian, provided to Judiciary Democrats by an unidentified whistleblower, that she would send application materials through the warden.
“I am struggling to keep it all together as it is big and there are so many attachments,” she wrote in a very brief message with the subject line “RE: Commutation Application.”
She added, “More coming to replace others..hopefully it will all make sense.”
The Supreme Court has already rejected Maxwell’s appeal to her conviction, meaning Trump’s pardon could be her only clear means to escape her decadeslong sentence. The president has not ruled out granting her a pardon.
Even years after Epstein’s apparent suicide behind bars in 2019, the case has presented a political quagmire for the GOP, given Trump’s relationship with the disgraced financier (Trump has said the two had a falling out years ago).
Democrats, meanwhile, have sought to stoke division within Trump’s base by arguing his administration has reneged on a promise for...
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