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highplainsdem

(57,553 posts)
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:09 AM Jul 22

Top DOJ official expects to meet with longtime Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell

Source: The Hill

A senior Department of Justice (DOJ) official has reached out to lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex offender and associate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, about setting up a meeting with Maxwell amid a push from lawmakers for more transparency around Epstein’s case.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement early Tuesday that he has communicated with Maxwell’s counsel “to determine whether she would be willing to speak with prosecutors from the Department.”

“I anticipate meeting with Ms. Maxwell in the coming days,” Blanche said. “Until now, no administration on behalf of the Department had inquired about her willingness to meet with the government. That changes now.”

Blanche said his outreach was at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has faced criticism from conservatives over her handling of documents related to Epstein.

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Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5413078-ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-doj/



I think we all know what the Trump regime will be offering, and threatening, to get the testimony they want.
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Top DOJ official expects to meet with longtime Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell (Original Post) highplainsdem Jul 22 OP
Bluesky post from Judd Legum: highplainsdem Jul 22 #1
Witnesses! Marthe48 Jul 22 #15
Remember when Barr visited Epstein before he was 'suicided''? travelingthrulife Jul 22 #2
My thoughts as well orangecrush Jul 22 #5
I am afraid that she won't make it to the end of the year. OldBaldy1701E Jul 22 #3
Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Tallahassee, Florida, sop Jul 22 #28
Pretty tainted process at this point bucolic_frolic Jul 22 #4
Giving her the kiss orangecrush Jul 22 #6
I'm picturing the severed head of the target's favorite racehorse wolfie001 Jul 22 #24
Same orangecrush Jul 22 #43
She will probably be careful womanofthehills Jul 22 #39
Yes orangecrush Jul 22 #44
Just like Ivana's "fall" wolfie001 Jul 22 #45
Dangling a pardon if she will moniss Jul 22 #7
Likely Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 22 #48
We already know she is a skilled liar? lostnfound Jul 22 #8
100 percent agree. They will commute her sentence bronxiteforever Jul 22 #20
Agree, only to add here that after testifying, she bluestarone Jul 22 #23
That's how the Mob does things. mdbl Jul 22 #26
I think the last time something like that happened someone ended up dead? Autumn Jul 22 #9
Yep... Hugin Jul 22 #11
I'm not sure "senior" is a word I'd use to describe Blanche... Hugin Jul 22 #10
Watch out for the polonium. Firestorm49 Jul 22 #12
Don't drink the tea! Hugin Jul 22 #13
Or go near Russian windows! Wonder Why Jul 22 #18
Beware the gravity snakes. n/t Hugin Jul 22 #19
Why doesnt Blanche just ask TSF what Maxwell johnnyfins Jul 22 #14
It fits their new narrative though Diraven Jul 22 #29
Possibly, but I believe Maxwell is too smart to fall for it FakeNoose Jul 22 #41
I would hope she has a whole tinymontgomery Jul 22 #16
Anyone think that Ghislaine pointed the WSJ johnnyfins Jul 22 #17
The Mob Boss sending an underlying to do his DIRTY WORK... ProudMNDemocrat Jul 22 #21
What could POSSIBLY go wrong? Earth Bound Misfit Jul 22 #22
After all this crap about Epstein, i'm thinking she would have bluestarone Jul 22 #25
My guess is that, if she ends up dead, there is a kill switch that will release everything...everything BComplex Jul 22 #46
Oh, how i hope and dream that you are right. bluestarone Jul 22 #47
Make her squeal on Clinton, Democrats and Allies NCDem47 Jul 22 #27
Lie for Trump and go free. C_U_L8R Jul 22 #30
This will be the offer. atreides1 Jul 22 #31
Visions of Barr visiting Epstein just before his death. Buddyzbuddy Jul 22 #32
What's so interesting is that Bill Barr's father Donald Barr gave Epstein his first job womanofthehills Jul 22 #38
Suicide watch ! republianmushroom Jul 22 #33
Are they going to make her an offer she can't refuse? Ray Bruns Jul 22 #34
I have seen this movie before. "I anticipate meeting with Ms. Maxwell In the coming days." Botany Jul 22 #35
"Don't worry Frankie Five Angels" maxrandb Jul 22 #36
I'm wondering why she hasn't been suicided already Bayard Jul 22 #37
To offer threats and/or give her money? ananda Jul 22 #40
Do they REALLY think Maxwell doesn't have another Just in Case" list somewhere? Really? flying_wahini Jul 22 #42
Oops! It looks like she just committed suicide! What a coincidence! Martin68 Jul 22 #49
My guess Miguelito Loveless Jul 22 #50
She's in danger JustAnotherGen Jul 22 #51

OldBaldy1701E

(8,466 posts)
3. I am afraid that she won't make it to the end of the year.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:13 AM
Jul 22

It is almost as if they are trying to get a bigger target on her so that some nut case will save them.

And, we won't discuss 'jail hits' since those are too easy to get... especially if one has a pardon dangled in front of them.

She needs 'round the clock' protection right now, and I don't mean from the 'JustUs' department.

sop

(15,321 posts)
28. Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Tallahassee, Florida,
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 10:42 AM
Jul 22

a low-security federal prison for female inmates. A 31-year-old inmate died there last year; no cause of death was specified, she was found "unresponsive."

(Tallahasse Democrat) "An inmate has died after being found unresponsive at Tallahassee's low security Federal Correctional Institution...After Shauna Maryann Boselli was found unresponsive, 'responding employees initiated life-saving measures,' according to a news release from the Federal Bureau of Prisons...'Emergency medical services (EMS) were requested and life-saving efforts continued,' the news release said. 'Ms. Boselli was transported by EMS to a local hospital and subsequently pronounced deceased by hospital personnel'...The release did not specify any cause of death, rather noting that 'no employees or other incarcerated individuals were injured and at no time was the public in danger.' "

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2024/08/10/tallahassee-federal-detention-center-inmate-dies-31-year-old-shauna-boselli/74748296007/

Watch your back, Ghislaine.

womanofthehills

(10,053 posts)
39. She will probably be careful
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:49 AM
Jul 22

Remember her wealthy dad, Robert Maxwell, “slipped “ off his yacht in the Canary Islands. So both dad and boyfriend had accidents.

lostnfound

(17,110 posts)
8. We already know she is a skilled liar?
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:44 AM
Jul 22

Less likely that she ends up dead, more likely false testimony in exchange for parole

bronxiteforever

(10,651 posts)
20. 100 percent agree. They will commute her sentence
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 10:18 AM
Jul 22

And she will testify falsely and then she runs to France.

Hugin

(36,698 posts)
10. I'm not sure "senior" is a word I'd use to describe Blanche...
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:49 AM
Jul 22

More like, flunky, meat puppet, or tool. Something along those lines.

johnnyfins

(2,513 posts)
14. Why doesnt Blanche just ask TSF what Maxwell
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:57 AM
Jul 22

Knows. It's the same goddamn information. They are setting her up. Hope she has a trigger set up in the event of her death. If TSF pardons her, it PROVES he is dirty. MAGA will lose their f'ing minds.

Diraven

(1,470 posts)
29. It fits their new narrative though
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 10:42 AM
Jul 22

If the whole Epstein thing is a hoax then Maxwell must be innocent too.

FakeNoose

(38,021 posts)
41. Possibly, but I believe Maxwell is too smart to fall for it
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:07 PM
Jul 22

I mean, she could have talked all this time, since Epstein's first conviction in 2007. But she has avoided the press, internet, and investigators of any kind. She was forced to testify in the Virginia Giuffre civil lawsuit and she said very little. (Some of the discovery was leaked years ago.)

All these years later she's kept herself alive by staying quiet. SOMEODY powerful knows what she knows, and as long as she never reveals her (Epstein's) secrets, they'll let her live. I'm guessing there must be an arrangement to release her documents to the media, if she should ever die inexplicably.

Don't forget that her father was a master spy for Mossad, and other scary groups. Ghislaine learned from her father and has lived by it.

tinymontgomery

(2,833 posts)
16. I would hope she has a whole
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 10:00 AM
Jul 22

lot of other people in that meeting and full recording of every word. I think if she gets pardoned the mega people will
go crazy, they know she is guilty.

johnnyfins

(2,513 posts)
17. Anyone think that Ghislaine pointed the WSJ
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 10:03 AM
Jul 22

to the birthday book? I mean, she created the damn thing...

ProudMNDemocrat

(19,950 posts)
21. The Mob Boss sending an underlying to do his DIRTY WORK...
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 10:20 AM
Jul 22

This is what this amounts to.."Nice gig you have here, Ghislaine. Sad if anything were to happen to it."

bluestarone

(19,990 posts)
25. After all this crap about Epstein, i'm thinking she would have
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 10:26 AM
Jul 22

ALL bases covered by every means possible. Her friends, right now should have access to copies of EVERYTHING she knows and have as evidence! Hope she's smart enough to KNOW she is a walking dead person.

BComplex

(9,498 posts)
46. My guess is that, if she ends up dead, there is a kill switch that will release everything...everything
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:54 PM
Jul 22

to all the competing journalists, both those leaning left and those leaning right. The trump administration is playing with fire.

NCDem47

(2,926 posts)
27. Make her squeal on Clinton, Democrats and Allies
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 10:37 AM
Jul 22

Stilt this whoooooole thing on them. Trump and not one Republican, donor or supporter will face scrutiny.

atreides1

(16,799 posts)
31. This will be the offer.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:05 AM
Jul 22

Offer her a pardon for her agreement to renounce her US citizenship and declare that she will never return to this country for the remainder of her life!

And give her a little "seed" money to make up for what she lost after being convicted.

womanofthehills

(10,053 posts)
38. What's so interesting is that Bill Barr's father Donald Barr gave Epstein his first job
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:45 AM
Jul 22

Donald was head of the prestigious Dalton School & hired Jeffrey to teach math when Jeffrey was 20 and had no degree- he had a few semesters at Cooper Union.

Donald Barr wrote a sick sci-fi book where important men rape underage girls. “Space Relations” (1973). According to Grok - “disturbing depictions of rape and the sexualization of minors, particularly teenage girls ….

republianmushroom

(20,774 posts)
33. Suicide watch !
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:23 AM
Jul 22

Last edited Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:59 AM - Edit history (1)

Todd Blanche....... no one is above the law.....and no lead is off limits. Todd you lie well, did you say this with a straight face ?

Bondi.....The DOJ does not shy away from uncomfortable truths...they just destroy evidence and deny that the evidence every existed, if the God father does like that evidence.

Botany

(74,865 posts)
35. I have seen this movie before. "I anticipate meeting with Ms. Maxwell In the coming days."
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:33 AM
Jul 22
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Bayard

(26,152 posts)
37. I'm wondering why she hasn't been suicided already
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:41 AM
Jul 22

Or, would a repeat be too obvious, even for trump? How about murdered by another inmate?

We already know that they have a team going over the files to take out all references to trump. But this woman has ALL the goods.

flying_wahini

(8,157 posts)
42. Do they REALLY think Maxwell doesn't have another Just in Case" list somewhere? Really?
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:10 PM
Jul 22

She is a lot of things but stupid isn’t one of them.
The whole reason Epstein took videos (The P stands for Pedos)of his guests was to blackmail them later.
G Maxwell was in charge of who got in and who didn’t as well as procuring fresh girls for the
debaubachery that was going on not just in NYC but in New Mexico and the place in Florida. She had months/years to take care of business and protecting herself.
You can just bet she did.

After Epstein’s little black book was found on a NYC sidewalk and subsequently “failed” to be auctioned off decades ago I’m guessing the security was ramped up a bit.

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