Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein and Justice Department
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The DOJ came up largely empty-handed after touting it would interview Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell amidst calls for accountability.
The Justice Dept. released transcripts of Deputy AG Todd Blanche's two-day interview with convicted sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
Ghislaine Maxwell told the DOJ that Jeffrey Epstein asked her to coordinate contributions to his 50th birthday book, but she could not recall if Donald Trump contributed.
Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, told a top Justice Department official in July that she was not aware of any "client list" belonging to the late financier and sex offender and never saw President Donald Trump behave inappropriately,
On Prince Andrew, Maxwell called the allegations against him "mind-blowingly not conceivable", partly due to the size of her house where the events allegedly took place. The royal was accused by Virginia Giuffre, who is not named in the transcript, of sexually abusing her when she was 17. Giuffre took her own life earlier this year.
When pressed for her own speculations on who would kill Epstein and why, Maxwell balked. She stated that she doesn’t believe there was any blackmail involved or that there was a hit on Epstein from someone on the outside, though she did concede that “it’s possible.”
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss how the House Oversight Committee is “feverishly” going through the first batch of Epstein files, noting that the MAGA base “is watching very carefully,
Additional details were released on the Jeffrey Epstein case following the DOJ and FBI reporting that there was no evidence of him running a blackmail scheme.