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According to new allegations from a informant, Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year prison term for sex-trafficking crimes, is reportedly preparing a commutation application for consideration by the presidential administration.

Special Treatment Claimed at Correctional Facility

House Democrats on the judicial oversight panel announced that a source provided information indicating the inmate is preparing the clemency petition. Additionally, they mentioned she has been receiving special treatment at the federal prison camp in Texas.

Representative Jamie Raskin, the ranking member on the House judiciary committee, declared in a news release that the facility's chief was assisting Maxwell with copying, printing, and sending documents to support her bid for executive mercy.

Specific details of the clemency request remain unclear, the congressman noted.

Alleged Privileges and Custom Arrangements

The representative claims that, according to the whistleblower, Maxwell has been given specially prepared food that are hand-delivered to her living area, and the supervisor has individually organized exclusive visits 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.

Maxwell’s visitors were also reportedly permitted to carry electronic devices, which Raskin described as an “unprecedented action” given the potential danger and chance of unmonitored communications.

Reportedly on one occasion, when phone lines went down for other prisoners, she was given specific instructions about instructing her contacts to contact and how personnel would connect the communication to her.

Supervisor Acting as Assistant

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

The statement indicates that Maxwell’s correspondents would email documents directly to the supervisor, who would provide them to the inmate, who would review and edit them and return them to the official to scan and provide to the initial correspondent.

Extra Benefits Alleged

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

Maxwell’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the whistleblower’s claims.

In a statement, the White House said that it “will not discuss” on potential clemency requests.

“As President Trump has stated, pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell is not something he has considered,” the representative noted.

Recent Background

Recently, reports surfaced that she told close associates in electronic messages that she was “much happier” at the Texas facility than her former location.

In August, she was transferred from a secure facility in Tallahassee, Florida to the less restrictive prison in Texas, where most detainees are serving time for non-violent offenses and white-collar crimes.

This move, which authorities called as “unprecedented”, occurred just shortly following she was interviewed about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation by the senior justice official, Todd Blanche, who also once acted as the President's private attorney.

This questioning came as the administration was facing mounting pressure to release more documents related to the ongoing probe and amid intense speculation around the President's own personal ties to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, who was found dead in a New York jail in 2019 while facing trial on sex-trafficking charges.

Lawmaker Reactions

Through the statement, Raskin also revealed that he had sent a letter to the President, requesting explanations about the insider's claims, and called on the chief executive to deny Maxwell’s commutation request.

“You should not grant any form of clemency to this convicted and unrepentant criminal,” Raskin wrote in the document. “Your Administration should not be providing her with room service, with canine interaction, with federal law enforcement officials waiting on her every need, or with any special treatment or institutional privilege at all.”

Raskin requested 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 Maxwell with Blanche or others, whether he had instructed him or anyone else to arrange her with the transfer or favorable and preferential treatment in prison, and whether she, her lawyers, relatives or representatives have made any promises to the President or his attorneys.

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

Last month, the US supreme court rejected an appeal from Maxwell on her sex-trafficking conviction.