US justice departmentOfficials said the US Department of Justice has asked Gisline Maxwell, a long -time associate of the Admitted Financer Jeffrey Epstein for a meeting with its prosecutors.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blancing said the prosecutors plan to ask Maxwell, “What do you know?”, And he intends to meet him “soon”.
Maxwell’s legal team told the BBC that they were in discussion with the government and would “always testify with the truth”.
Calls for greater transparency in Epstein case have recently intensified, including President Donald Trump’s supporters. Despite the pressure, house speaker Mike Johnson said that his chamber would not vote on the release of further files in the case by September.
Blanches, who previously served as Trump’s personal lawyer in his 2024 criminal testing, stated that DOJ and FBI’s 6 July statement on Epstein is “accurate”.
The statement stated that the recent, intensive review of the FBI records related to the Epstein case, highlighted “no evidence to predict an inquiry against any third parties”.
Blancch said on Tuesday, “The Department of Justice is not far from uncomfortable truth, nor is it the responsibility to carry forward justice with responsibility.”
He said, “If Ghislane Maxwell knows about anyone committing crimes against the victims, the FBI and DOJ will hear what he has to say,” he said.
Talking to the media from the Oval office, Trump said that Maxwell’s interview seems to be suitable for “.”
Epstein, a guilty sexual criminal, died of suicide in New York Jail Sale in 2019, while he was waiting to prosecute allegations of sex smuggling.
Last week, Trump asked Attorney General Palm Bondi to issue all the relevant grand jury testimony in the case.
Maxwell was found guilty of helping young girls sexually abused. He was sentenced to 20 years in jail in June 2022.
On Tuesday, his lawyer David Oscar Marcus said in a statement, “We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to highlight the truth in the matter.”
Earlier this year, Maxwell urged the Supreme Court to review his case. The Department of Justice last week pushed the court to reject the appeal.
During Maxwell’s 2022 trials, four women testified that they were abused as minors in Epstein homes in Florida, New York, New Mexico and Virgin Islands.
One of those women, Annie farmer, said that his only sense of justice came from Maxwell’s sentence.
He told the BBC in an interview this week that Epstein saga had a “real weight” on the “rollercaster” accused, saying that a lot of focus has been focused on those who focus too much, with a little new information emerging, which has “used”.
The meeting of the Department of Justice has already been criticized by some people in the Maga world.
Laura Lumor, a distant conspiracy theorist who has Trump’s ear, questioned why Maxwell interview was not “on day 1”.
“I think what I want to know whether DOJ is originally saying that he has never met with Gisline Maxwell or to interview him whether he knows about the sexual offenses committed against minors,” Ms. Lumor has written on social media.
But speaker Mike Johnson announced that he would suspend the house votes by September, a decision was widely seen as an attempt to reduce the demands for the release of Epstein files.
He said that votes would end on Wednesday evening, in which he tried to avoid the “political game” related to the files.
His statement came after voting for Sabapona Maxwell for a statement by a Congress inspection committee.
