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According to recent claims from a whistleblower, Ghislaine Maxwell, now completing a 20-year prison term for trafficking offenses, is reportedly preparing a commutation application for review by the presidential administration.

Special Treatment Alleged at Correctional Facility

Congressional Democrats on the judicial oversight panel revealed that a source provided evidence indicating Maxwell is preparing the clemency petition. Additionally, they mentioned she has been receiving special treatment at the federal prison camp in the Lone Star State.

Congressman Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House judiciary committee, declared in a official statement that the facility's chief was assisting Maxwell with copying, printing, and sending documents to support her bid for executive mercy.

The exact content of the clemency request remain unknown, the congressman noted.

Alleged Privileges and Special Accommodations

The representative claims that, per the insider, the prisoner has been receiving “customized” meals that are hand-delivered to her living area, and the warden has individually organized private meetings for her and her visitors.

The visits reportedly involve a “special cordoned-off area” for visitors and “an assortment of snacks and refreshments” for her associates.

Those visiting Maxwell were also reportedly permitted to carry electronic devices, which the congressman characterized as an “unprecedented action” given the security risk and potential for unsupervised contact.

In one alleged instance, when phone lines went down for other inmates, Maxwell was provided directions about who she should tell her associates to call and how staff would relay the call to her.

Warden as “Personal Secretary”

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

The statement states that Maxwell’s correspondents would email documents directly to the warden, who would provide them to Maxwell, for her to examine and change and provide them back to the official to digitize and send to the original sender.

Extra Benefits Alleged

Other privileges allegedly granted to Maxwell include opportunities to interact with a trainee assistance dog – a perk not “ordinarily allowed” – as well as private after-hours access to the prison exercise area.

Her legal counsel has not yet replied to a inquiry regarding the whistleblower’s claims.

Through a spokesperson, the White House said that it “does not comment” on possible pardon appeals.

“Per the President's remarks, pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell is not something he has considered,” the spokesperson noted.

Recent Background

Recently, it was reported that she told friends and family in emails from prison that she was more content at the Texas facility than her former location.

This past summer, Maxwell was moved from a secure facility in Florida's capital to the minimum-security camp in Texas, where most detainees are incarcerated for financial and non-violent crimes.

The transfer, which authorities called as “unprecedented”, occurred just shortly following she was questioned about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation by the senior justice official, the official, who also previously served as Donald Trump's personal lawyer.

This questioning came as the Trump administration was facing increasing scrutiny to release more documents related to the ongoing probe and amid widespread conjecture around the President's own connections to the disgraced financier and adjudicated criminal, who was found dead in a New York jail in 2019 while facing trial on sex-trafficking charges.

Lawmaker Reactions

Through the statement, the congressman also revealed that he had dispatched a communication to the President, requesting explanations about the insider's claims, and called on the chief executive to deny the clemency appeal.

“It would be inappropriate to approve any type of pardon to this convicted and unrepentant criminal,” Raskin wrote in the document. “The government must not offer her with room service, with canine interaction, with government agents waiting on her every need, or with any special treatment or institutional privilege at all.”

Raskin requested that Blanche appear for a open legislative session to address the disclosures and also presented several inquiries to the President.

He inquired whether Trump had discussed a potential commutation for Maxwell with Blanche or others, whether he had instructed Blanche or anyone else to provide Maxwell with the transfer or special conditions in prison, and whether she, her lawyers, relatives or representatives have made any commitments to Trump or his attorneys.

The representative requested for a reply to the inquiries by the specified date.

In October, the US supreme court declined to hear an petition from Maxwell on her trafficking verdict.