Ghislaine Maxwell on Monday refused to answer questions from House lawmakers investigating the case of her deceased pedophile lover Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell appeared virtually before lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee for less than hour on Monday morning.
The deposition took place in a close door interview for the bipartisan House probe into the Justice Department’s prosecution of the late billionaire pedophile.
Maxwell pleaded The Fifth and refused to provide any details to lawmakers into her relationship with Epstein. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence in Texas.
In the lead up to the committee hearing, Republican Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said they expected Maxwell to plead the Fifth Amendment.
She was found guilty in December 2021 for sex trafficking and exploiting female minors for Epstein.
Justice Department prosecutors accused Maxwell of grooming ‘minor girls to be abused in multiple ways.’
Maxwell has come under new scrutiny following the release of over three million documents related to the prosecution of Epstein. The documents show that Epstein had access to a large network of powerful business leaders and political figures.
Maxwell refused to provide information to the House Oversight Committee on Monday regarding her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
New documents show that Epstein access to numerous powerful political figures, including former President Bill Clinton
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said he expected Maxwell to plead the Fifth Amendment
Maxwell was initially subpoenaed by the Oversight Committee last year, but her attorneys have told lawmakers she will not answered questions regarding Epstein.
Maxwell’s attorney reportedly told the committee that Maxwell would not answer questions unless she received clemency from President Donald Trump. Comer noted that the full video of Maxwell’s testimony will be released.
Trump has not indicated he would provide clemency or a pardon for Epstein’s imprisoned madam.
The Daily Mail reached out to the White House for comment.
Comer plans to schedule additional depositions with former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The Clintons initially refused to obey the subpoena, but after Comer threatened them with contempt of Congress charges, the couple agreed to sit before the committee.
Comer’s team had spent months negotiating with Maxwell’s attorney to secure her appearance before the committee.
Comer delayed her initially planned August deposition after her attorney requested waiting for a Supreme Court ruling on Maxwell’s appeal.
Epstein was known to rub shoulders with some of the wealthiest and powerful figures in the world
The Supreme Court declined to hear Maxwell’s case back in October.
Maxwell’s decision to plead the Fifth Amendment in front of House lawmaker on Monday comes months after she spoke candidly about her relationship with Epstein to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
After speaking with Blanche last year, Maxwell was moved to a minimum-security prison in Texas. She met with Blanche, who previously served as Trump’s personal lawyer.
Trump was a longtime friend of Epstein’s in the 1990s and early 2000s but expelled him from his Mar-a-Lago club for being a ‘creep’. The president has never been accused of any wrongdoing.
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