Epstein case | Ghislaine Maxwell offers her testimony to the Congress against Immunity

(Washington) Ghislaine Maxwell, the ex-girlfriend imprisoned from the fallen financier and sexual delinquent condemned Jeffrey Epstein, is willing to answer questions from the congress, but only if it benefits from immunity against future prosecution for its testimony, said its lawyers on Tuesday.

A spokesperson for the Congress Commission wishing to question him responded with a laconic press release, indicating that she would not plan to grant him immunity.

Maxwell lawyers also asked to receive their questions in advance and that any interview with it be scheduled after resolving its request from the United States Supreme Court to seize its file.

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These conditions were specified in a letter sent by Maxwell lawyers to the representative James Comer. Comer, republican president of the supervisory commission of the House of Representatives, gave a summons to appear for Maxwell’s deposition last week in Florida prison where she serves a 20 -year sentence for conspiracy with Epstein on the sexual trafficking of minors.

This request for a questioning is part of a renewed interest in the Epstein case, following the Declaration of the Ministry of Justice last July, according to which he would not publish any other document of the investigation. This sudden announcement shaken online detectives, conspiracy theorists and certain members of the entourage of President Donald Trump, who hoped to find evidence of government concealment.

Since then, the Trump administration has sought to present itself as a promoter of transparency: the ministry has urged the courts to make public the transcriptions of the great jury of the investigation into sexual traffic and the deputy prosecutor Todd Blanche interviewed Maxwell for two days in a Florida courthouse last week.

In a letter sent on Tuesday, Maxwell’s lawyers said that their first reflex was that it invokes its right not to self-infringement guaranteed by the fifth amendment, they were open to its cooperation, provided that the legislators satisfy their request for immunity and other conditions.

But the supervisory committee seemed to categorically reject this offer. “The supervisory committee will soon respond to the lawyer for^me Maxwell, but will not plan to grant parliamentary immunity for his testimony, “said a spokesperson.

In addition, Maxwell’s lawyers urged the Supreme Court to re -examine its conviction, saying that it had not benefited from a fair trial. They also claim that it could testify “openly and honestly, in public”, especially in the event of grace granted by Donald Trump. The latter told journalists that such an approach was in his law, but that he had not been asked in this sense.

“She is delighted to be able to share the truth and dissipate the many false ideas and erroneous statements that have tainted this case from the start,” he said.

Trump claims to have broken up with Epstein about the employees of his Mar-A-Lago Spa

US President Donald Trump provided a new version of his break with Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday, saying that the dispute focused on employees of his Mar-A-Lago spa, including Virginia Giuffre, the young woman at the heart of the scandal involving Prince Andrew.

The White House so far assured Donald Trump had hunted the businessman from his Mar-A-Lago club in Florida (southeast) about twenty years ago, after being very close, for having “behaved like a twisted”. The American media, for their part, mentioned a rivalry on the acquisition of real estate property in Florida.

But, speaking to journalists in the presidential plane Air Force One who brought him back from Scotland on Tuesday, Donald Trump developed a significantly different version of this rupture, already exposed on Monday during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

“He hired people who worked for me and I told him” don’t do that “and he did it again, so I told him” no longer set foot here, “he said on Tuesday, adding that they were SPA employees.

Asked if these employees were young women, Donals Trump implicitly confirmed it. One of them was Virginia Giuffre, one of the main victims of the sexual trafficking of minors which Jeffrey Epstein was accused, he recognized in response to a question. “I think she was working at the spa. I think she was one of those people. Yes, he took it, “said Donald Trump.

Virginia Giuffre, who committed suicide in April at the age of 41, accused Prince Andrew, a younger brother of the current king of England, Charles III, of having sexually assaulted when she was a minor. After denominating, the prince had concluded an amicable agreement with her in 2022.

The death of Jeffrey Epstein, found hanged in his cell in New York on August 10, 2019 before his judgment for sexual crimes, fueled countless conspiracy theories that he was murdered to prevent embarrassing revelations on leading personalities.

Donald Trump, who for months has promised his basis of shattering revelations on this file, underwent a return of flame, including in his own camp, since his government announced in early July that he had discovered any new element which would justify the publication of additional documents.

The Ministry of Justice and the FBI, the federal police, concluded that there was no evidence of the existence of a secret list of “customers” of Jeffrey Epstein and confirmed his suicide.

With Agency France-Presse