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Per new allegations from a whistleblower, the convicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein, now completing a 20-year prison term for trafficking offenses, is reportedly preparing a commutation application for consideration by the presidential administration.

Special Treatment Claimed at Correctional Facility

Congressional Democrats on the judicial oversight panel announced that a whistleblower provided information indicating Maxwell is working on the clemency petition. They also stated 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 official statement that the facility's chief was assisting the convict with copying, printing, and sending documents to aid her effort for clemency.

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

Claimed Perks and Custom Arrangements

Raskin states that, per the insider, Maxwell has been given specially prepared food that are “personally delivered” to her cell, and the warden has “personally arranged” exclusive visits for her and her visitors.

The visits reportedly involve a “special cordoned-off area” for visitors and “an assortment of snacks and refreshments” for her associates.

Those visiting Maxwell were also reportedly permitted to bring computers, which Raskin described as an “unprecedented action” given the potential danger and chance of unmonitored communications.

Reportedly on one occasion, when phone lines went down for other prisoners, she was provided directions about instructing her contacts to call 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 review and edit documents “quickly”, she reportedly employed the official as her “personal secretary and administrative assistant”.

The news release indicates that those writing to her would email documents directly to the warden, who would provide them to Maxwell, for her to examine and change and provide them back to the warden to digitize and send to the initial correspondent.

Additional Privileges Reported

Further perks allegedly granted to Maxwell include time to “play 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 inquiry regarding the insider's allegations.

In a statement, the White House said that it “does not comment” on potential clemency requests.

“Per the President's remarks, granting clemency to Ghislaine Maxwell is not something he has considered,” the spokesperson noted.

Recent Background

Recently, it was reported that Maxwell told close associates in electronic messages that she was “much happier” at the Texas facility than her former location.

In August, she was transferred from a secure facility in Tallahassee, Florida to the minimum-security camp in Texas, where most inmates are serving time for financial and non-violent crimes.

This move, which authorities called as exceptional, occurred just days after she was questioned about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation by the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, who also once acted as Donald Trump's private attorney.

That interview came as the Trump administration was facing mounting pressure to release more documents related to the ongoing probe and amid widespread conjecture around Trump's own connections to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, who was found deceased in custody in 2019 while awaiting prosecution on sex-trafficking charges.

Lawmaker Reactions

In the news release, the congressman also revealed that he had sent a letter to the President, requesting explanations about the whistleblower’s allegations, and called on the president to reject Maxwell’s commutation request.

“It would be inappropriate to approve any type of pardon to this adjudicated and remorseless criminal,” Raskin wrote in the letter. “Your Administration should not be providing her with room service, with canine interaction, with government agents waiting on her every need, or with any special treatment or institutional privilege at all.”

Raskin requested that the official attend a open legislative session to address the disclosures and also posed three questions to the President.

Raskin asked whether he had discussed a possible clemency for Maxwell with the official or others, whether he had instructed Blanche or anyone else to provide Maxwell with the transfer or favorable and preferential treatment in detention, and whether she, her lawyers, relatives or agents have made any commitments to Trump or his legal team.

Raskin has asked for a response to the questions by the specified date.

Last month, the US supreme court declined to hear an petition from the convict on her trafficking verdict.