Top DOJ official plans to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell about Epstein case as House panel pursues subpoena

Washington – Todd Blanche, the second higher official in the classification of the Ministry of Justice, said on Tuesday that he planned to meet Ghislaine Maxwell “In the coming days” on the case involving a condemned sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“Justice demands courage. For the first time, the Ministry of Justice is handing out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: What do you know?” Blanche wrote on social networks. He added that he had contacted Maxwell 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.

In Capitol Hill, a subcommittee of the Chamber’s Supervisory and Reform Committee approved a motion from the GOP representative, Tim Buchett du Tennessee, who directs the chairman of the committee to ensure that Maxwell appears for a deposition, a signal of the interest of the legislators to speak to the former partner of Epstein.

Blanche, who was the private lawyer for the defense of President Trump before joining the Ministry of Justice, said that the ministry and the FBI continue to stand by a memo published earlier this month concluded Epstein did not have a “list of customers” and confirmed that he had died by suicide. The memo, which detailed the conclusions of an examination of the Epstein case, also said that there was no “credible proof” that the disgraced financier had made eminent people sing.

The Ministry of Justice and the FBI have also declared that they would not disclose any additional information on the Epstein case and noted that the examination had not revealed evidence that would arouse an investigation into non -loaded third parties.

“President Trump told us to disclose all credible evidence,” said Blanche in a second declaration shared by Bondi. “If Ghislane Maxwell has information on anyone who has committed crimes against the victims, the FBI and the Doj will hear what she has to say.”

The deputy prosecutor general said that the Ministry of Justice in previous administrations had not asked questions about his desire to meet the government, and he plans to “meet Ms. Maxwell in the coming days”.

David Oscar Markus, Maxwell lawyer, said in a statement: “I can confirm that we are in discussion with the government and that Ghislaine will always testify honestly. We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to discover the truth in this case.”

Trump told journalists that he did not know Blanche’s attempt to speak with Maxwell, but said that “it seemed appropriate to do so”.

“It’s a kind of witch hunt,” he said in the oval office. “Just a continuation of witch hunt.”

Maxwell was an Epstein partner and convicted in 2021 For his role in the aid to the recruit of Epstein, the groom and the mistreatment of minor girls. She is currently purge a 20 -year prison sentence. His lawyers asked the Supreme Court to appeal to his conviction.

The awareness of Blanche to Maxwell lawyers comes after the Ministry of Justice asked for a federal court in New York Friday, to descend the transcriptions of the procedures of the great jury involving Epstein. He was charged in 2019 for a sexual trafficking chief of minors and a conspiracy chief to commit sexual trafficking of minors.

Federal prosecutors allegedly alleged that Epstein had exploited and abused dozens of minor girls from 2002 to 2005 and worked with other people who organized sexual meetings with victims in Epstein residences in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida.

He died by suicide while he was in federal custody before his trial. Epstein was arrested in Florida in 2006 and pleaded guilty to two state prostitution charges in 2008.

In addition to asking the court to release the transcriptions of the great jury linked to the Epstein indictment, the Ministry of Justice also asked him to make public transcriptions of the Grand Jury associated with the Maxwell affair. The American district district judge Paul Engelmayer, who now manages the Maxwell affair, ordered the Ministry of Justice to submit additional files to the Court to his request to non-specify the files of the Grand Jury and gave Maxwell and the victims until August 5 to expose his positions on the proposed disclosure.

The question of whether the transcriptions become public will live up to judges who oversee business, although the files are probably strongly expurgated to protect information related to the victims. If requests from the Ministry of Justice are granted by the court, the equipment is unlikely to be available immediately and it could be weeks or months before it is not sealed.

Federal rules generally require questions before a great jury is secret.

The President and his administration were treated with the allies of Mr. Trump who appeared after the Ministry of Justice released the Epstein note.

Certain senior administration officials, such as vice-president JD Vance and the director of the FBI, Kash Patel, suggested before Mr. Trump’s re-election that the Democrats deliberately hid information on Epstein and his alleged list of customers. But now, with the Ministry of Justice under the control of Mr. Trump, some of his allies are skeptical about his assertion that there is nothing left to disclose.

Trump attempted to minimize attention on Epstein and were unleashed against some of his supporters, calling them “weak” who were duped by the Democrats. He described the allegations of Epstein as “Jeffrey Epstein Canular”.

Epstein and Mr. Trump moved into the same social circles in New York and Florida from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. They had been friends for years, until they fell around 2004. Mr. Trump previously recognized that he crossed Epstein to Palm Beach, but said in 2019 following the arrest of Epstein that they had not spoken for 15 years.

Last week, the president was unleashed in a story of the Wall Street Journal which told the relationship of the pair, which, according to the president, had ended before the first arrest of Epstein in 2006. The newspaper reported that Mr. Trump had signed a “debauchery” letter to Epstein in the early 2000s to mark his 50th anniversary which declared, in part, “can be another wonderful secret.” CBS News has not seen or verified independently the letter.

Mr. Trump called the “false” letter and filed a defamation complaint Against the publisher of the journal, the parent company News Corporation, its leader Rupert Murdoch and journalists who wrote the story of Epstein. Trump asks at least $ 20 billion in damages.