WASHINGTON: Deputy US Attorney General Todd Blanche said he met accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell in Tallahassee, Florida, on Thursday (Jul 24) and will meet with her again on Friday.
Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, speaking separately after Thursday’s meeting, said, “We had a very productive day today with the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Ghislaine Maxwell.”
Images captured by ABC News on Thursday showed Blanche and his entourage, including acting Associate Deputy Attorney General Diego Pestana, entering the US attorney’s office, which is located in a federal courthouse.
Markus told reporters that Maxwell answered each of Blanche’s questions. “We don’t want to comment about the substance of the meeting for obvious reasons,” he added.
Blanche had announced earlier in the week that he had reached out to Maxwell’s lawyers to see if she might have “information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims.”
Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence at a federal prison in Tallahassee, after a jury convicted her of sex trafficking in 2021. She is appealing her sentence.
President Donald Trump and his administration have been facing mounting pressure from Trump’s supporters to release additional information about the Justice Department’s investigation into Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 in a jail cell while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
