BURSTThe brother of longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell said Wednesday she is preparing to present the Justice Department with “new evidence” ahead of a meeting with a top DOJ official this week.
Senior officials coordinated with Maxwell’s attorney to arrange a meeting with the Epstein accomplice, who was convicted on sex-trafficking charges and is serving a 20-year prison sentence. ABC News reported the meeting is expected to be held Thursday at the U.S. attorney's office in Florida.
“She will be putting before that court material new evidence that was not available to the defense at her 2021 trial, which would have had a significant impact on its outcome,” Ian Maxwell told The New York Post in an email.
Ghislaine Maxwell did not testify during her 2021 trial and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who is set to meet with Maxwell, said earlier this week that no government official had attempted to contact Maxwell for information until the Trump administration.
"President Trump has told us to release all credible evidence. If Ghislane Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say," Blanche said in a statement Monday.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday questioned whether Maxwell would be a credible witness. “I mean, this is a person who’s been sentenced to many, many years in prison for terrible, unspeakable, conspiratorial acts. Acts against innocent young people," he said.
The public has been pushing for more information as it relates to Epstein's close friends and associates after a joint memo from the FBI and DOJ earlier this month said the government did not have any more documents to release tied to the deceased financier.
Supporters of the president, cheered by Democrats, have pushed for more information from the administration, even after officials have said there was no "client list" and reaffirmed Epstein died by suicide in his jail cell in 2019.
The Wall Street Journal also reported Wednesday that Attorney General Pam Bondi alerted Trump that his name was listed in the "truckload" of files reviewed by the DOJ and FBI, among numerous other names. The White House has brushed off the report.