Ghislaine Maxwell Is Preparing to Ask Trump for a Commutation, Email Shows

Ghislaine Maxwell appears to be working on a commutation request for President Donald Trump, according to an email between Maxwell and her attorney obtained by the House Judiciary Committee.

“I will need the brief back at some point to go through it,” Maxwell wrote to her lawyer in an email with the subject line “Commutation Application” reviewed by NOTUS. “I’m struggling to keep it together as it is big and there are so many attachments.”

The email, first reported by the Miami Herald on Monday, was released to the Judiciary Committee by a whistleblower at Federal Prison Camp, Bryan, the women’s facility where Maxwell has been held since July.

On Sunday, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin, sent a letter to Trump demanding that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche testify before the committee about what he claimed was preferential treatment toward Maxwell.

“Documents and information received over the last several days by this Committee indicate that under Dr. Tanisha Hall, the warden of Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan, the federal law enforcement staff working at the camp have been waiting on Ms. Maxwell hand and foot,” the letter opens.

Recent efforts by the White House, and Congress, to release information relating to Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased millionaire accused of child sex trafficking, have stalled, much to the chagrin of a large chunk of the president’s most loyal supporters.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence at the Texas minimum-security federal prison for sex-trafficking crimes she committed alongside Epstein. She was previously sentenced to a low-security federal prison in Florida, but was transferred to Texas in August after a conversation with Blanche.

Since moving to the Texas facility, Maxwell has “heaped favorable concierge-style treatment,” according to Raskin’s letter.

“The deference and servility to Ms. Maxwell have reached such preposterous levels that one of the top officials at the facility has complained that he is ‘sick of having to be Maxwell’s bitch,’” Raskin continues.

Examples of favorable treatment toward Maxwell outlined by Raskin included custom meals delivered to her cell, private visits arranged by the warden where guests were permitted to have computers, private recreation time after hours and time with a service dog.

“Needless to say, these luxuries and amenities have not been afforded to any other inmates and mark Ms. Maxwell more as a guest at a Trump hotel than a federal prisoner and child sex offender,” the letter reads. “In addition, Warden Hall has threatened the inmates at FPC Bryan that if they so much as speak to Ms. Maxwell, they will be transferred to significantly worse prison facilities up to a thousand miles away.”

The Supreme Court rejected Maxwell’s appeal to her conviction last month, leaving a presidential pardon her final hope at an early release. Trump has yet to weigh in on whether he would grant her a pardon.

“You should not grant any form of clemency to this convicted and unrepentant sex offender,” Raskin’s letter reads. “Your Administration should not be providing her with room service, with puppies to play with, with federal law enforcement officials waiting on her every need, or with any special treatment or institutional privilege at all.”

Trump said in early October he would speak to the Department of Justice about Maxwell’s case, but denied any knowledge of ongoing clemency conversations.

“I haven’t heard the name in so long, I would have to take a look at it,” Trump said from the Oval Office. “I’ll have to speak to the DOJ, look at it.”

Raskin’s letter requests a response to outlined questions by Nov. 24, and for the White House to schedule Blanche’s hearing before the committee by Nov. 17.

“As I am sure you can appreciate, given the clear false statements of Ms. Maxwell in her interview with Mr. Blanche, the subsequent and repeated favorable treatment afforded to her, and her planned testimony before a congressional committee, Mr. Blanche’s actions may constitute a serious and far-reaching violation of the criminal law,” the letter reads.