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According to new allegations from a whistleblower, Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a two-decade sentence for trafficking offenses, is allegedly readying a commutation application for review by the Trump administration.

Preferential Handling Claimed at Correctional Facility

House Democrats on the House judiciary committee announced that a source provided information indicating the inmate is working on the commutation application. They also stated she has been given preferential conditions at the minimum-security facility in the Lone Star State.

Representative Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House judiciary committee, stated in a official statement that the prison’s warden was “helping” the convict with document preparation and submission to aid her effort for clemency.

Specific details of the “commutation application” are unclear, Raskin added.

Alleged Privileges and Special Accommodations

The representative claims that, according to the whistleblower, Maxwell has been given specially prepared food that are hand-delivered to her cell, and the supervisor has individually organized private meetings for Maxwell and her guests.

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 the congressman characterized as an “unprecedented action” given the security risk and chance of unmonitored communications.

In one alleged instance, when phone lines went down for other prisoners, Maxwell was given specific instructions about who she should tell her contacts to call and how personnel would connect the communication to her.

Warden as “Personal Secretary”

The whistleblower further reportedly told congressional members that when the convict wanted to review and edit documents “quickly”, she reportedly employed the official as her private aide.

The news release indicates that those writing to her would email documents directly to the warden, who would hand them over to Maxwell, for her to examine and change and return them to the warden to digitize and send to the original sender.

Extra Benefits Alleged

Other privileges allegedly granted to Maxwell include time to “play with” a service dog puppy – a perk typically prohibited – as well as private after-hours access to the facility's gym.

Maxwell’s attorney has not yet replied to a request for comment regarding the whistleblower’s claims.

Through a spokesperson, the White House said that it “does not comment” on potential clemency requests.

“As President Trump has stated, pardoning the convict is not something he has thought about,” the representative noted.

Recent Background

Recently, it was reported that Maxwell told close associates in emails from prison that she was more content at the new prison than her former location.

This past summer, Maxwell was transferred from a low-security prison in Florida's capital to the less restrictive prison in Texas, where most detainees are serving time for non-violent offenses and white-collar crimes.

This move, which experts described as “unprecedented”, occurred just days after she was questioned about the Epstein case by the deputy attorney general, the official, who also previously served as Donald Trump's private attorney.

That interview came as the administration was facing increasing scrutiny to release more documents related to the ongoing probe and amid widespread conjecture around Trump's own personal ties to the disgraced financier and adjudicated criminal, who was found deceased in custody in 2019 while awaiting prosecution on sex-trafficking charges.

Lawmaker Reactions

In the news release, the congressman also revealed that he had sent a letter to the President, demanding answers about the insider's claims, and called on the president to reject the clemency appeal.

“It would be inappropriate to approve any form of clemency to this adjudicated and remorseless criminal,” the representative stated in the letter. “Your Administration should not be providing her with room service, with canine interaction, with government agents attending to her requests, or with any preferential handling or institutional privilege at all.”

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

Raskin asked whether Trump had discussed a potential commutation for the convict with Blanche or others, whether he had instructed Blanche or anyone else to provide Maxwell with the move or special conditions in detention, and whether she, her attorneys, family or representatives have made any commitments to the President or his legal team.

The representative requested for a response to the questions by the specified date.

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