Ghislaine Maxwell's alleged prison perks spark Raskin probe into Trump administration

Rep. Jamie Raskin sent a six-page missive to President Donald Trump connected Sunday.

Rep. Jamie Raskin sent a sharply worded six-page missive to President Donald Trump connected Sunday pursuing caller accusation his committee received from a whistleblower alleging that Ghislaine Maxwell is preparing a "commutation application" for the Trump medication and receiving preferential attraction portion incarcerated.

Raskin, the apical Democrat connected the House Judiciary Committee, accused the Trump medication of allowing "a corrupt misuse of law-enforcement resources" and demanded that Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche attest earlier the Judiciary Committee instantly to "answer for this corrupt misuse of instrumentality enforcement resources and imaginable speech of favors for mendacious grounds exonerating you and different Epstein accomplices."

The missive is simply a follow-up to an August 12 missive Raskin and different Democrats sent to the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Prisons astir Maxwell’s transfer to Federal Prison Camp Bryan, a minimum-security installation that helium said was an "apparent flagrant usurpation of BOP policies, including 1 that explicitly prohibits the placement of enactment offenders successful specified facilities."

Maxwell is serving a 20-year situation condemnation for kid enactment trafficking and different offenses successful transportation with Jeffrey Epstein, the erstwhile financier and convicted enactment offender who died by suicide in jailhouse successful 2019.

FCI Tallahassee successful Florida, wherever Maxwell had been held, is simply a "low security" situation for men and women, portion FPC Bryan is simply a "minimum security" campy conscionable for women.

The transportation followed Maxwell's two-day meeting successful July with Blanche successful Tallahassee, wherever her lawyer said the 2 discussed "about 100 names" associated with Epstein, aft the Trump medication promised to merchandise further accusation astir the deceased enactment offender.

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