Ghislaine Maxwell, DOJ and Meeting
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U.S. officials interviewed convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell while her legal team awaits a Supreme Court decision on her 20-year prison sentence appeal.
The disgraced British socialite, wearing all brown, was handcuffed in the front and led through a barbed-wire-laced fenced-in area in front of the prison.
A senior administration official confirms to NBC News that Ghislaine Maxwell was granted limited immunity by the Justice Department in order to answer questions about the Jeffrey Epstein case. This type of immunity allowed Maxwell to answer questions from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche without fear that the information she provided could later be used against her in any future cases or proceedings.
The U.S. Supreme Court should hear Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her 2021 sex trafficking conviction, her lawyers argued in a brief to the Supreme Court Monday.
The Justice Department’s No. 2 official has met with Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
President Trump is still being hounded by the case of Jeffrey Epstein. It's not clear if a second day of meetings between a top Trump administration official and Epstein's imprisoned co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell will cool the controversy.
The ranking Democrat on DOJ oversight committee fears 'a corrupt bargain between the Trump Administration' and the convicted Jeffrey Epstein associate