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According to recent claims from a whistleblower, Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a two-decade sentence for sex-trafficking crimes, is reportedly preparing a commutation application for consideration by the Trump administration.

Preferential Handling Claimed at Correctional Facility

Congressional Democrats on the judicial oversight panel revealed that a whistleblower provided evidence indicating Maxwell is preparing the commutation application. They also stated she has been given preferential conditions at the minimum-security facility in Texas.

Congressman Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House judiciary committee, stated in a news release that the prison’s warden was assisting the convict with copying, printing, and sending documents to support her bid for executive mercy.

The exact content of the clemency request remain unclear, Raskin added.

Claimed Perks and Custom Arrangements

Raskin states that, per the insider, the prisoner has been given specially prepared food that are hand-delivered to her cell, and the supervisor has individually organized exclusive visits for Maxwell and her guests.

The visits reportedly involve a designated private space for attendees and a variety of food and drinks for her guests.

Maxwell’s visitors were also allowed to carry electronic devices, which Raskin described as an “unprecedented action” given the security risk and chance of unsupervised contact.

In one alleged instance, when communications failed for other inmates, Maxwell was provided directions about instructing her contacts to call and how personnel would connect the communication to her.

Supervisor Acting as Assistant

The whistleblower further reportedly told congressional members that when the convict wanted to examine and modify papers promptly, she “essentially used” the warden as her private aide.

The news release indicates that Maxwell’s correspondents would email documents directly to the warden, who would provide them to the inmate, for her to examine and change and return them to the official to digitize and send to the initial correspondent.

Extra Benefits Reported

Further perks allegedly granted to Maxwell include opportunities to interact with a service dog puppy – a perk not “ordinarily allowed” – as well as exclusive nighttime use to the prison exercise area.

Maxwell’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the whistleblower’s claims.

Through a spokesperson, the White House said that it “does not comment” on potential clemency requests.

“Per the President's remarks, granting clemency to Ghislaine Maxwell is not something he has thought about,” the representative added.

Recent Background

Over the weekend, it was reported that Maxwell told close associates in emails from prison that she was “much happier” at the Texas facility than her previous prison.

In August, she was moved from a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida to the less restrictive prison in the state, where most inmates are serving time for non-violent offenses and white-collar crimes.

This move, which authorities called as exceptional, occurred just shortly following she was questioned about the Epstein case by the senior justice official, Todd Blanche, who also once acted as the President's personal lawyer.

This questioning came as the administration was facing mounting pressure to release more documents related to the ongoing probe and amid intense speculation around the President's own personal ties to the disgraced financier and adjudicated criminal, who was found deceased in custody in 2019 while awaiting prosecution on trafficking accusations.

Lawmaker Reactions

Through the statement, the congressman also announced that he had dispatched a communication to Trump, demanding answers about the insider's claims, and urged the president to reject Maxwell’s commutation request.

“It would be inappropriate to approve any form of clemency to this adjudicated and remorseless sex offender,” Raskin wrote in the letter. “Your Administration should not be providing her with room service, with puppies to play with, with government agents attending to her requests, or with any special treatment or institutional privilege at all.”

Raskin requested that Blanche attend a public congressional hearing to address the disclosures and also presented several inquiries to Trump.

He inquired whether Trump had talked about a potential commutation for the convict with the official or others, whether he had directed Blanche or anyone else to provide Maxwell with the transfer or special conditions in prison, and whether she, her lawyers, relatives or representatives have made any commitments to Trump or his legal team.

Raskin has asked for a reply to the inquiries by the specified date.

Last month, the nation's highest court rejected an appeal from Maxwell on her sex-trafficking conviction.