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According to recent claims from a informant, Ghislaine Maxwell, now completing a 20-year prison term for trafficking offenses, is reportedly preparing a clemency request for review by the Trump administration.

Special Treatment Claimed at Correctional Facility

House Democrats on the House judiciary committee revealed that a whistleblower provided evidence indicating Maxwell is preparing the clemency petition. Additionally, they mentioned she has been given preferential conditions at the federal prison camp in Texas.

Congressman Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the committee, declared in a news release that the facility's chief was assisting Maxwell with document preparation and submission to support her bid for executive mercy.

The exact content of the “commutation application” are unknown, Raskin added.

Claimed Perks and Custom Arrangements

Raskin states that, according to the whistleblower, Maxwell has been given specially prepared food that are “personally delivered” to her living area, and the warden has “personally arranged” exclusive visits for Maxwell and her visitors.

These meetings allegedly include a designated private space for visitors and a variety of food and drinks for her guests.

Maxwell’s visitors were also allowed to bring computers, which Raskin described as an “unprecedented action” given the potential danger and chance of unsupervised contact.

In one alleged instance, when communications failed for other prisoners, she was given specific instructions about instructing her associates to call and how staff would connect the communication to her.

Warden as “Personal Secretary”

The source also allegedly told congressional members that when the convict wanted to examine and modify papers promptly, she “essentially used” the warden as her private aide.

The news release states that those writing to her would send files directly to the warden, who would provide them to Maxwell, for her to examine and change and provide them back to the warden to digitize and send to the original sender.

Additional Privileges Reported

Other privileges allegedly granted to Maxwell include time to “play with” a service dog puppy – a perk not “ordinarily allowed” – as well as private after-hours access 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 White House said that it “will not discuss” on possible pardon appeals.

“As President Trump has stated, granting clemency to Ghislaine Maxwell is not something he has thought about,” the representative added.

Recent Background

Over the weekend, reports surfaced that she told friends and family in electronic messages that she was “much happier” at the Texas facility than her former location.

In August, Maxwell was moved from a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida to the less restrictive prison in the state, where most inmates are incarcerated for financial and non-violent crimes.

The transfer, which experts described as “unprecedented”, occurred just shortly following she was interviewed about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation by the deputy attorney general, the official, who also previously served as the President's personal lawyer.

This questioning came as the Trump administration was facing mounting pressure to disclose additional files related to the Epstein investigation and amid widespread conjecture around the President's own connections to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, who was found deceased in custody in that year while facing trial on sex-trafficking charges.

Congressional Response

In the news release, the congressman also announced that he had dispatched a communication to the President, requesting explanations about the insider's claims, and urged the president to deny the clemency appeal.

“You should not grant any type of pardon to this convicted and unrepentant sex offender,” the representative stated in the document. “The government must not offer her with room service, with canine interaction, with government agents attending to her requests, or with any special treatment or facility benefit at all.”

The congressman asked that the official appear for a public congressional hearing to address the disclosures and also posed three questions to the President.

Raskin asked whether Trump had talked about a potential commutation for the convict with Blanche or others, whether he had directed Blanche or anyone else to provide Maxwell with the transfer or special conditions in prison, and whether Maxwell, her lawyers, relatives or agents have made any promises to Trump or his attorneys.

The representative requested for a reply to the questions by 24 November.

Last month, the nation's highest court rejected an petition from the convict on her trafficking verdict.