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According to recent claims from a informant, Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year prison term for sex-trafficking crimes, is reportedly preparing a commutation application for review by the Trump administration.

Preferential Handling Alleged at Correctional Facility

House Democrats on the House judiciary committee announced that a whistleblower provided evidence indicating Maxwell is working on the clemency petition. Additionally, they mentioned she has been receiving special treatment at the minimum-security facility in Texas.

Representative Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House judiciary committee, stated in a news release that the prison’s warden was “helping” Maxwell with document preparation and submission to support her bid for clemency.

Specific details of the “commutation application” remain unclear, the congressman noted.

Alleged Privileges and Special Accommodations

Raskin states that, according to the whistleblower, the prisoner has been given specially prepared food that are hand-delivered to her living area, and the supervisor has “personally arranged” exclusive visits for Maxwell and her visitors.

These meetings reportedly involve a “special cordoned-off area” for visitors and a variety of food and drinks for her associates.

Maxwell’s visitors were also allowed to carry electronic devices, which Raskin described as an “unprecedented action” given the potential danger and chance of unmonitored communications.

In one alleged instance, when phone lines went down for other inmates, she was provided directions about who she should tell her associates to call and how staff would relay the call to her.

Supervisor Acting as Assistant

The source also allegedly told congressional members that when Maxwell wanted to examine and modify papers promptly, she reportedly employed the warden as her private aide.

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

Extra Benefits Alleged

Other privileges reportedly provided to Maxwell include time to “play with” a service dog puppy – a perk not “ordinarily allowed” – as well as private after-hours access to the facility's gym.

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 possible pardon appeals.

“Per the President's remarks, pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell is not something he has thought about,” the spokesperson added.

Recent Background

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

This past summer, she was moved from a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida to the less restrictive prison in Texas, where most inmates are incarcerated for non-violent offenses and white-collar crimes.

The transfer, which experts described as exceptional, occurred just days after she was questioned about the Epstein case by the deputy attorney general, the official, who also previously served as Donald Trump's private attorney.

This questioning came as the Trump administration was facing increasing scrutiny to release more documents related to the ongoing probe and amid intense speculation around the President's own personal ties to the fallen billionaire and adjudicated criminal, who was found dead in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting prosecution on trafficking accusations.

Congressional Response

In the news release, Raskin also announced that he had sent a letter to the President, requesting explanations about the insider's claims, and urged the president to deny Maxwell’s commutation request.

“You should not grant any form of clemency to this adjudicated and remorseless criminal,” the representative stated in the letter. “The government must not offer her with room service, with canine interaction, with federal law enforcement officials attending to her requests, or with any preferential handling or facility benefit at all.”

The congressman asked that Blanche attend a open legislative session to address the disclosures and also presented several inquiries to the President.

He inquired whether he had talked about a potential commutation for Maxwell with Blanche or others, whether he had instructed Blanche or anyone else to arrange her with the transfer or favorable and preferential treatment in detention, and whether she, her attorneys, family or representatives have made any commitments to Trump or his legal team.

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

In October, the nation's highest court rejected an petition from Maxwell on her sex-trafficking conviction.