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According to recent claims from a whistleblower, Ghislaine Maxwell, now completing a two-decade sentence for sex-trafficking crimes, is reportedly preparing a clemency request for review by the presidential administration.

Special Treatment Claimed at Correctional Facility

House Democrats on the House judiciary committee revealed that a source provided information indicating Maxwell is preparing the commutation application. They also stated she has been receiving special treatment at the federal prison camp in the Lone Star State.

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

Specific details of the clemency request remain unclear, Raskin added.

Claimed Perks and Custom Arrangements

Raskin states that, according to the whistleblower, the prisoner has been given specially prepared food that are hand-delivered to her living area, and the supervisor has individually organized exclusive visits for Maxwell and her guests.

The visits allegedly include a “special cordoned-off area” for attendees and a variety of food and drinks for her associates.

Maxwell’s visitors were also reportedly permitted to carry electronic devices, which Raskin described as an exceptional measure given the potential danger and chance of unsupervised contact.

Reportedly on one occasion, when communications failed for other inmates, Maxwell was provided directions about instructing her contacts to call and how staff would relay the call to her.

Supervisor Acting as Assistant

The whistleblower further reportedly told House Democrats that when the convict wanted to examine and modify papers “quickly”, she reportedly employed the official as her “personal secretary and administrative assistant”.

The news release indicates that those writing to her would send files directly to the warden, who would hand them over to the inmate, who would review and edit them and return them to the warden to scan and provide to the original sender.

Additional Privileges Reported

Further perks reportedly provided to Maxwell include time to “play with” a trainee assistance dog – a benefit not “ordinarily allowed” – as well as exclusive nighttime use to the prison exercise area.

Her legal counsel 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.

“Per the President's remarks, granting clemency to Ghislaine Maxwell is not something he has thought about,” the representative added.

Recent Background

Over the weekend, it was reported that Maxwell told close associates in emails from prison that she was “much happier” at the Texas facility than her former location.

This past summer, she was transferred from a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida to the minimum-security camp in the state, where most inmates are incarcerated for non-violent offenses and white-collar crimes.

The transfer, which authorities called as “unprecedented”, occurred just shortly following she was questioned about the Epstein case by the deputy attorney general, the official, who also once acted as the President's private attorney.

This questioning came as the administration was facing increasing scrutiny to release more documents related to the Epstein investigation and amid widespread conjecture around the President's own personal ties to the disgraced financier and adjudicated criminal, who was found dead in a New York jail in that year while awaiting prosecution on sex-trafficking charges.

Lawmaker Reactions

Through the statement, Raskin also revealed that he had sent a letter to Trump, demanding answers about the whistleblower’s allegations, and called on the president to reject Maxwell’s commutation request.

“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 attending to her requests, or with any special treatment or institutional privilege at all.”

The congressman asked that Blanche attend a public congressional hearing to discuss the revelations and also posed three questions to Trump.

He inquired whether Trump had talked about a possible clemency for the convict with Blanche or others, whether he had directed Blanche or anyone else to arrange Maxwell with the move or special conditions in prison, and whether Maxwell, her attorneys, relatives or agents have made any commitments to Trump or his legal team.

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

In October, the nation's highest court rejected an petition from Maxwell on her sex-trafficking conviction.