Epstein confederate Ghislaine Maxwell to sit down for deposition with Congress subsequent month | EUROtoday

Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime girlfriend and confederate of convicted intercourse legal Jeffrey Epstein, will sit for a congressional deposition subsequent month.

Politico first reported on Wednesday that Maxwell would adjust to a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee, which has been main the investigation into the federal authorities’s dealing with of the investigations into Epstein. She’ll seem nearly, and her attorneys have mentioned beforehand that Maxwell will plead the fifth to keep away from the lawmakers’ questions.

House lawmakers can’t compel Maxwell to drop her Fifth Amendment protections and Maxwell, who’s serving a 20-year jail sentence, is in search of a clemency deal from the Trump administration. Congress can’t grant her that pardon, and the Oversight committee has dominated out granting her immunity for her testimony.

Epstein died in a Manhattan detention facility in 2019. He was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution in a “sweetheart” plea deal in 2008, and was below a second legal investigation for intercourse trafficking of minors when he died in federal custody.

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