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According to new allegations from a informant, Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a two-decade sentence for sex-trafficking crimes, is allegedly readying a clemency request for review by the presidential administration.

Special Treatment Claimed at Correctional Facility

House Democrats on the judicial oversight panel announced that a whistleblower provided evidence indicating the inmate is preparing the clemency petition. Additionally, they mentioned she has been given preferential conditions at the federal prison camp in the Lone Star State.

Representative Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House judiciary committee, stated in a news release that the prison’s warden was “helping” the convict with copying, printing, and sending documents to aid her effort for clemency.

The exact content of the clemency request are unknown, Raskin added.

Alleged Privileges and Special Accommodations

The representative claims that, according to the whistleblower, the prisoner has been given specially prepared food that are “personally delivered” to her cell, and the supervisor has “personally arranged” private meetings for Maxwell and her guests.

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

Maxwell’s visitors were also allowed to bring computers, which the congressman characterized as an exceptional measure given the security risk and potential for unmonitored communications.

Reportedly on one occasion, when phone lines went down for other prisoners, she was provided directions about who she should tell her associates to contact and how personnel would relay the call to her.

Warden as “Personal Secretary”

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

The news release states that Maxwell’s correspondents would send files directly to the supervisor, who would provide them to the inmate, for her to examine and change and return them to the warden to scan and provide to the initial correspondent.

Extra Benefits Reported

Other privileges allegedly granted to her include opportunities to interact with a trainee assistance dog – a benefit typically prohibited – as well as private after-hours access to the facility's gym.

Her legal counsel did not immediately respond to a inquiry regarding the whistleblower’s claims.

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

“As President Trump has stated, pardoning the convict is not something he has considered,” the spokesperson added.

Recent Background

Recently, reports surfaced 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 secure facility in Florida's capital to the less restrictive prison in Texas, where most inmates are serving time for financial and non-violent crimes.

This move, which authorities called as exceptional, occurred just days after she was questioned about the Epstein case by the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, who also once acted as the President's personal lawyer.

That interview came as the Trump administration was facing increasing scrutiny to release more documents related to the Epstein investigation and amid widespread conjecture around Trump's own connections to the fallen billionaire and convicted sex offender, who was found dead in a New York jail in 2019 while facing trial on trafficking accusations.

Lawmaker Reactions

In the news release, the congressman also revealed that he had dispatched a communication to Trump, requesting explanations about the insider's claims, and urged the chief executive to deny Maxwell’s commutation request.

“It would be inappropriate to approve any form of clemency to this convicted and unrepentant criminal,” Raskin wrote in the document. “The government must not offer her with personal amenities, with canine interaction, with government agents waiting on her every need, or with any preferential handling or institutional privilege at all.”

Raskin requested that Blanche attend a open legislative session to address the disclosures and also posed three questions to Trump.

He inquired whether Trump had talked about a potential commutation for the convict with the official or others, whether he had instructed him or anyone else to arrange Maxwell with the transfer or special conditions in detention, and whether Maxwell, her lawyers, relatives or agents have made any promises to Trump or his legal team.

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

Last month, the US supreme court declined to hear an petition from Maxwell on her trafficking verdict.