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Per recent claims from a whistleblower, Ghislaine Maxwell, now completing a 20-year prison term for sex-trafficking crimes, is allegedly readying a clemency request for review by the presidential administration.

Preferential Handling Claimed at Correctional Facility

House Democrats on the judicial oversight panel announced that a whistleblower provided information indicating Maxwell is working on the commutation application. Additionally, they mentioned she has been given preferential conditions at the federal prison camp in Texas.

Congressman Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House judiciary committee, declared in a official statement that the facility's chief was assisting the convict with copying, printing, and sending documents to aid her effort for clemency.

The exact content of the clemency request are unknown, the congressman noted.

Claimed Perks and Custom Arrangements

The representative claims that, per the insider, the prisoner has been given specially prepared food that are hand-delivered to her cell, and the supervisor has “personally arranged” private meetings for Maxwell and her visitors.

The visits allegedly include a designated private space for attendees and a variety of food and drinks for her associates.

Maxwell’s visitors were also reportedly permitted to carry electronic devices, which the congressman characterized as an “unprecedented action” given the potential danger and potential for unsupervised contact.

Reportedly on one occasion, when communications failed for other prisoners, she was given specific instructions about instructing her associates to call and how personnel would connect the communication to her.

Supervisor Acting as Assistant

The source also allegedly told congressional members that when the convict wanted to review and edit documents promptly, she reportedly employed the warden as her private aide.

The news release states that Maxwell’s correspondents would send files directly to the warden, who would provide them to the inmate, for her to examine and change and provide them back to the official to digitize and send to the original sender.

Extra Benefits Reported

Other privileges 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.

Her legal counsel has not yet replied 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.

“As President Trump has stated, granting clemency to Ghislaine Maxwell is not something he has considered,” the spokesperson added.

Recent Background

Recently, reports surfaced that Maxwell told friends and family in emails from prison that she was “much happier” at the Texas facility than her former location.

This past summer, she was moved from a low-security prison in Florida's capital to the less restrictive prison in Texas, where most detainees are serving time for non-violent offenses and white-collar crimes.

The transfer, which authorities called as exceptional, occurred just shortly following she was questioned about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation by the senior justice official, Todd Blanche, who also previously served as Donald Trump's private attorney.

That interview came as the Trump administration was facing mounting pressure to release more documents related to the Epstein investigation and amid widespread conjecture around the President's own personal ties to the fallen billionaire and convicted sex offender, who was found deceased in custody in that year while facing trial on sex-trafficking charges.

Congressional Response

Through the statement, Raskin also revealed that he had sent a letter to the President, demanding answers about the insider's claims, and called on the president to deny Maxwell’s commutation request.

“You should not grant any type of pardon to this convicted and unrepentant sex offender,” Raskin wrote in the document. “The government must not offer her with room service, with canine interaction, with government agents waiting on her every need, or with any preferential handling or institutional privilege at all.”

Raskin requested that the official appear for a open legislative session to discuss the revelations and also posed three questions to the President.

He inquired whether he had talked about a possible clemency for Maxwell with Blanche or others, whether he had directed him or anyone else to arrange Maxwell with the transfer or favorable and preferential treatment in detention, and whether Maxwell, her attorneys, family or representatives have made any promises to Trump or his legal team.

The representative requested for a reply to the inquiries by the specified date.

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