Washington – Todd Blanche, the second manager of the highest classified ministry of justice, met Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday at the office of the American prosecutor in Tallahassee to discuss the sexual offender condemned Jeffrey Epstein.
David Oscar Markus, Maxwell’s lawyer, refused to comment on “the substance” of the meeting, but told journalists outside the office that “there were a lot of questions and we went all day”.
“And she answered each of them. She never said,” I’m not going to answer, “he never refused,” he said. “This is the first time that the government has asked questions, so we are grateful that the deputy prosecutor general has come and asked him questions. This is the first time that the government has done it. So it was a good day.”
In a job Thursday evening on X, Blanche wrote that he had met Maxwell and “will continue my interview of her tomorrow. The Ministry of Justice will share additional information on what we have learned at the appropriate time”.
Maxwell is currently serving a 20 -year sentence in a low -security federal correctional institute in Tallahassee. She was sentenced in 2021 for her role by helping Epstein Recruit, Groom and Abuse Minor.
Blanche’s meeting comes after him said earlier this week That he planned to meet Maxwell “in the coming days”.
“Justice demands courage. For the first time, the Ministry of Justice is handing out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: What do you know?” Block written on social networks Tuesday. He said he had contacted Maxwell’s lawyers towards the Attorney General Pam Bondi. “I intend to meet her soon. No one is above the law – and no advance is prohibited,” wrote Blanche. Markus then confirmed that Maxwell’s legal team was in discussion with the government.
The pressure relied on President Trump and his administration on the case of Epstein after the Ministry of Justice and the FBI published a memo Earlier this month, which concluded that Epstein had no “list of customers” and confirmed that he had died by suicide in 2019, shortly after being charged with federal sex traffic.
The memo also concluded that there was no “credible proof” that the disgraced financier made eminent people sing. The Ministry of Justice and the FBI have declared that they would not disclose any other information on the case of Epstein.
But the conclusions of the Trump administration have stored some of its allies, which were skeptical about the assertion of the Ministry of Justice that there is nothing left to disclose.
Some of the main administration officials, including vice-president JD Vance and FBI director Kash Patel, had suggested before Mr. Trump returned to the White House that Democrats hid information on Epstein and his alleged list of customers.
In an effort to suppress the counterou, the Ministry of Justice asked federal judges In New York, which managed the cases of Epstein and Maxwell to unshine the transcriptions of the procedures of the Grand Jury involving the two.
Earlier this week, judges supervising requests each ordered The Ministry of Justice to submit additional deposits to the court concerning its efforts to descend the files of the Grand Jury. The judges gave the accused – in the case of Epstein, his representative – and the victims until August 5 to expose their positions on the proposed disclosure.
It will be up to the judges to decide whether the great jury can be disclosed. If they grant the requests, the information will probably be strongly expurred, and it will probably take weeks or months before the transcriptions are not sealed.
In addition to dealing with the reaction of some of its allies, Capitol Hill legislators pushed to make the Epstein public equipment.
A The house panel voted on Wednesday To assign the Ministry of Justice for files related to the federal probe on Epstein. The Chamber’s Supervisory Committee Maxwell assigned to appear To sit for a deposition next month at the Federal Detention Center in Tallahassee.
Trump acknowledged that he and Epstein moved into the same social circles in Florida and New York from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. But the president declared in 2019, following the arrest of Epstein, which they had not spoken for 15 years.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Trump had signed a “debauchery” letter to Epstein for his 50th anniversary which said, in part, “maybe another wonderful secret”. CBS News has not seen or verified independently the letter. The president denied having written the letter, the appellant “false” and continued the newspaper and its owners for defamation. It requires at least $ 20 billion in damages.
The newspaper reported on Wednesday that when officials of the Ministry of Justice examined Epstein documents earlier this year, they learned that Mr. Trump’s name had appeared several times. Bondi and his assistant told the president at a meeting of the White House in May that his name was in the so-called Epstein files, just like those of other public figures, according to the newspaper. Trump mentioned does not mean that he has committed reprehensible acts.
The director of communications of the White House, Steven Cheung, said in response to the report of the newspaper according to which “the fact is that the president expelled him from his club to be a flipper. It is nothing more than a continuation of the false news concocted by the democrats and the liberal media, just like the scandal of Obama Russiagate, of which President Trump was right.”
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