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According to new allegations from a informant, Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a two-decade sentence for trafficking offenses, is allegedly readying a commutation application for review by the Trump administration.

Special Treatment Alleged at Federal Prison

Congressional Democrats on the judicial oversight panel announced that a source provided information indicating Maxwell is preparing the clemency petition. Additionally, they mentioned she has been receiving special treatment at the minimum-security facility in the Lone Star State.

Representative Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House judiciary committee, declared in a official statement that the facility's chief was assisting Maxwell with document preparation and submission to support her bid for executive mercy.

Specific details of the clemency request remain unclear, Raskin added.

Alleged Privileges and Special Accommodations

The representative claims that, according to the whistleblower, Maxwell has been given specially prepared food that are hand-delivered to her living area, and the warden has “personally arranged” exclusive visits for her and her guests.

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

Maxwell’s visitors were also reportedly permitted to bring computers, which the congressman characterized as an “unprecedented action” given the security risk and potential for unsupervised contact.

Reportedly on one occasion, when communications failed 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.

Supervisor Acting as Assistant

The whistleblower further reportedly told congressional members that when Maxwell wanted to examine and modify papers promptly, she “essentially used” the warden as her “personal secretary and administrative assistant”.

The news release indicates that Maxwell’s correspondents would send files directly to the warden, who would hand them over to Maxwell, who would review and edit them and return them to the warden to digitize and send to the original sender.

Additional Privileges Alleged

Other privileges reportedly provided to her include time to “play with” a trainee assistance dog – a perk not “ordinarily allowed” – as well as exclusive nighttime use to the facility's gym.

Her legal counsel did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the insider's allegations.

Through a spokesperson, the White House said that it “does not comment” on possible pardon appeals.

“Per the President's remarks, pardoning the convict is not something he has thought about,” the spokesperson noted.

Recent Background

Over the weekend, reports surfaced that she told close associates in electronic messages that she was “much happier” at the Texas facility than her previous prison.

This past summer, she was moved from a secure facility in Tallahassee, Florida to the less restrictive prison in Texas, where most detainees are incarcerated for non-violent offenses and white-collar crimes.

The transfer, which authorities called as exceptional, occurred just days after she was interviewed about the Epstein case by the senior justice official, Todd Blanche, who also previously served as Donald Trump's personal lawyer.

This questioning came as the Trump administration was facing increasing scrutiny to disclose additional files 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 dead in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting prosecution on sex-trafficking charges.

Lawmaker Reactions

In the news release, the congressman also announced that he had dispatched a communication to Trump, demanding answers about the whistleblower’s allegations, and urged the president to deny Maxwell’s commutation request.

“You should not grant any form of clemency to this convicted and unrepentant criminal,” Raskin wrote in the letter. “The government must not offer her with personal amenities, with canine interaction, with government agents waiting on her every need, or with any special treatment or facility benefit at all.”

Raskin requested that Blanche attend a public congressional hearing to discuss the revelations and also presented several inquiries to the President.

He inquired whether he had discussed a possible clemency for the convict with the official or others, whether he had directed Blanche or anyone else to provide Maxwell with the transfer or favorable and preferential treatment in detention, and whether Maxwell, her attorneys, relatives or agents have made any commitments to Trump or his attorneys.

The representative requested for a response to the questions by the specified date.

In October, the US supreme court declined to hear an appeal from the convict on her sex-trafficking conviction.