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Per new allegations from a informant, Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year prison term for sex-trafficking crimes, is allegedly readying a commutation application for review by the Trump administration.

Special Treatment Claimed at Federal Prison

House Democrats on the House judiciary committee revealed that a source provided evidence indicating the inmate is working on the commutation application. Additionally, they mentioned she has been receiving special treatment at the federal prison camp in Texas.

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

Specific details of the “commutation application” remain unclear, Raskin added.

Alleged Privileges and Special Accommodations

The representative claims that, per the insider, Maxwell has been receiving “customized” meals that are hand-delivered to her cell, and the supervisor has individually organized exclusive visits for her and her guests.

These meetings allegedly include a “special cordoned-off area” for attendees and a variety of food and drinks for her associates.

Maxwell’s visitors were also reportedly permitted to carry electronic devices, which Raskin described as an exceptional measure given the security risk and potential for unmonitored communications.

Reportedly on one occasion, when communications failed for other inmates, Maxwell was provided directions about instructing her contacts to contact and how personnel would connect the communication to her.

Supervisor Acting as Assistant

The source also allegedly told House Democrats that when Maxwell wanted to examine and modify papers “quickly”, she “essentially used” the warden as her private aide.

The news release indicates that Maxwell’s correspondents would email documents directly to the supervisor, who would hand them over to Maxwell, for her to examine and change and provide them back to the official to digitize and send to the original sender.

Additional Privileges Alleged

Further perks allegedly granted to Maxwell include opportunities to interact with a service dog puppy – a perk not “ordinarily allowed” – as well as private after-hours access to the prison exercise area.

Her legal counsel has not yet replied to a inquiry regarding the whistleblower’s claims.

Through a spokesperson, the presidential office said that it “does not comment” on potential clemency requests.

“As President Trump has stated, pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell is not something he has thought about,” the representative noted.

Recent Background

Over the weekend, it was reported that Maxwell told close associates in electronic messages that she was more content at the new prison than her previous prison.

In August, Maxwell was moved from a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida to the minimum-security camp in Texas, where most detainees are serving time for financial and non-violent crimes.

The transfer, which experts described as “unprecedented”, occurred just days after she was interviewed about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation by the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, who also once acted as Donald Trump's private attorney.

This questioning came as the administration was facing mounting pressure to disclose additional files related to the Epstein investigation and amid intense speculation around Trump's own connections to the fallen billionaire and adjudicated criminal, who was found dead in a New York jail in that year while awaiting prosecution on trafficking accusations.

Lawmaker Reactions

Through the statement, the congressman also announced that he had sent a letter to the President, demanding answers about the insider's claims, and urged the president to reject the clemency appeal.

“It would be inappropriate to approve any type of pardon to this adjudicated and remorseless sex offender,” the representative stated in the letter. “The government must not offer her with personal amenities, with puppies to play with, with federal law enforcement officials waiting on her every need, or with any special treatment or facility benefit at all.”

The congressman asked that Blanche attend a public congressional hearing to discuss the revelations and also presented several inquiries to Trump.

He inquired whether he had talked about a possible clemency for Maxwell with the official or others, whether he had instructed him or anyone else to provide Maxwell with the transfer or favorable and preferential treatment in prison, and whether she, her lawyers, family or representatives have made any promises to Trump or his attorneys.

The representative requested for a response to the questions by 24 November.

In October, the US supreme court rejected an petition from Maxwell on her trafficking verdict.