Ghislaine Maxwell has offered to testify before Congress about the case of her accomplice Jeffrey Epstein but with major conditions, her attorneys said.<\/p>\n
Lawyers for the convicted sex trafficker and former girlfriend of the late convicted pedophile have sent her demands to the House Oversight Committee, CNN first reported.<\/p>\n
Maxwell was subpoenaed to testify next month by House Oversight Chair James Comer. Her attorneys said in the letter Tuesday that she would cooperate \u201cif a fair and safe path forward can be established.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maxwell\u2019s demands reportedly include a grant of formal immunity, and any interview would need to take place away from the correctional facility where she is currently serving her 20-year sentence.<\/p>\n
If her demands are not met, Maxwell \u201cwill have no choice but to invoke her Fifth Amendment rights,\u201d her attorneys wrote in the letter, seen by The Independent.<\/p>\n
Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year sentence, has offered to testify before Congress but with major conditions. (Federal Bureau of Prisons)The letter also said Maxwell would be willing to testify \u201copenly and honestly\u201d in public if she received clemency from President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
Trump acknowledged Monday that he has the power to pardon Maxwell, but didn\u2019t say he would. \u201cWell, I\u2019m allowed to give her a pardon, but I \u2014 nobody\u2019s approached me with it,\u201d the president said. \u201cNobody\u2019s asked me about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, in the alternative, if Ms. Maxwell were to receive clemency, she would be willing\u2014and eager\u2014to testify openly and honestly, in public, before Congress in Washington, D.C.,\u201d her attorneys said. \u201cShe welcomes the opportunity to share the truth and to dispel the many misconceptions and misstatements that have plagued this case from the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n
The idea of granting Maxwell immunity was swiftly rejected by the Overnight Committee. \u201cThe Oversight Committee will respond to Ms. Maxwell\u2019s attorney soon, but it will not consider granting congressional immunity for her testimony,\u201d a spokeswoman told CNN.<\/p>\n
It comes a day after Maxwell filed an appeal with the Supreme Court in the hope of overturning her conviction of sexually abusing and grooming underage girls and young women for years with Epstein.<\/p>\n
Maxwell argues that she was unlawfully prosecuted and last week met with a senior Justice Department officials to answer questions about the case.<\/p>\n
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