Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi stated Monday that Deputy Legal professional Todd Blanche will meet with Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, someday within the “coming days.”
“President Trump has instructed us to launch all credible proof. If Ghislane Maxwell has details about anybody who has dedicated crimes in opposition to victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say,” Blanche stated within the statement posted by Bondi on X.
Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi and Deputy Legal professional Normal Todd Blanche look on as President Donald Trump speaks throughout a information convention within the Brady Briefing Room of the White Home on June 27, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
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Blanche additionally stated that the joint assertion from the Justice Division and FBI on July 6 — which said they’d not launch any extra files on Epstein and that they decided there was no Epstein “consumer checklist” — “stays as correct right this moment because it was when it was written.”
“Particularly, that within the current thorough assessment of the information maintained by the FBI within the Epstein case, no proof was uncovered that might predicate an investigation in opposition to uncharged third events,” Blanche stated.
He added that up “till now, no administration on behalf of the Division had inquired about her willingness to fulfill with the federal government.”
The assertion comes as a rising refrain of lawmakers have known as for Maxwell to testify about her relationship with Epstein, and whereas the division is actively opposing Maxwell’s efforts to enchantment her conviction for conspiring with and aiding Epstein in his sexual abuse of underage ladies.
Audrey Strauss, appearing U.S. lawyer for the Southern District of New York, factors to a photograph of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, throughout a information convention in New York on July 2, 2020.
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David Oscar Markus, the appellate counsel for Maxwell, confirmed to ABC Information that they’re in talks with the federal government.
“I can verify that we’re in discussions with the federal government, and that Ghislaine will all the time testify honestly,” Markus stated. “We’re grateful to President Trump for his dedication to uncovering the reality on this case.”
Maxwell was convicted of intercourse trafficking and different prices and sentenced to twenty years in jail in 2022.
Final week, President Donald Trump ordered the DOJ to “launch all Grand Jury testimony with respect to Jeffrey Epstein, topic solely to Courtroom Approval,” he stated on social media.
The DOJ requested in its submitting, which was signed by Bondi and Blanche, for the courtroom to “conclude that the Epstein and [Ghislaine] Maxwell circumstances qualify as a matter of public curiosity, launch the related grand jury transcripts, and elevate preexisting protecting orders.”
