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Per new allegations from a informant, Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a two-decade sentence for trafficking offenses, is reportedly preparing a commutation application for review by the Trump administration.

Special Treatment Claimed at Correctional Facility

House Democrats on the House judiciary committee announced that a source provided information indicating the inmate 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 ranking member on the committee, stated in a news release that the prison’s warden was assisting the convict with copying, printing, and sending documents to support her bid for executive mercy.

Specific details of the clemency request are unknown, the congressman noted.

Alleged Privileges and Custom Arrangements

Raskin states that, according to the whistleblower, Maxwell has been given specially prepared food that are hand-delivered to her cell, and the supervisor has individually organized exclusive visits for her and her guests.

These meetings allegedly include a designated private space for visitors and “an assortment of snacks and refreshments” for her guests.

Maxwell’s visitors were also reportedly permitted to bring computers, which Raskin described as an exceptional measure given the security risk and chance of unmonitored communications.

Reportedly on one occasion, when communications failed for other prisoners, Maxwell was provided directions about who she should tell her contacts to call and how staff 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 warden as her private aide.

The statement states that Maxwell’s correspondents would send files directly to the supervisor, who would provide them to the inmate, who would review and edit them and return them to the warden to digitize and send to the initial correspondent.

Additional Privileges Alleged

Further perks reportedly provided to Maxwell include time to “play with” a trainee assistance dog – a perk not “ordinarily allowed” – as well as exclusive nighttime use to the prison exercise area.

Maxwell’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the insider's allegations.

In a statement, the presidential office said that it “does not comment” on possible pardon appeals.

“Per the President's remarks, pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell is not something he has considered,” the representative added.

Context and Developments

Over the weekend, it was reported that she told friends and family in emails from prison that she was “much happier” at the Texas facility than her previous prison.

This past summer, she was moved from a low-security prison in Florida's capital to the less restrictive prison in Texas, where most inmates are serving time for financial and non-violent crimes.

This move, which experts described as “unprecedented”, occurred just days after she was interviewed about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation by the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, who also once acted as Donald Trump's private attorney.

This questioning came as the administration was facing mounting pressure to disclose additional files related to the Epstein investigation and amid intense speculation around the President's own connections to the fallen billionaire and convicted sex offender, who was found dead in a New York jail in that year while facing trial on sex-trafficking charges.

Congressional Response

Through the statement, the congressman also announced that he had sent a letter to Trump, requesting explanations about the whistleblower’s allegations, and called on the president to reject Maxwell’s commutation request.

“You should not grant any form of clemency to this adjudicated and remorseless criminal,” the representative stated in the document. “The government must not offer her with personal amenities, with puppies to play with, with federal law enforcement officials waiting on her every need, or with any preferential handling or institutional privilege at all.”

The congressman asked that Blanche attend a open legislative session to address the disclosures and also presented several inquiries to Trump.

He inquired whether Trump had discussed a possible clemency for the convict with Blanche or others, whether he had directed him or anyone else to provide her with the transfer or special conditions in prison, and whether she, her lawyers, relatives or agents have made any commitments to Trump or his attorneys.

Raskin has asked for a reply to the inquiries by the specified date.

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