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According to recent claims from a informant, Ghislaine Maxwell, now completing a 20-year prison term for sex-trafficking crimes, is reportedly preparing a commutation application for consideration by the Trump administration.

Special Treatment Claimed at Correctional Facility

House Democrats on the House judiciary committee announced that a source provided information indicating Maxwell is working on the commutation application. Additionally, they mentioned she has been receiving special treatment at the federal prison camp in Texas.

Representative Jamie Raskin, the ranking member on the committee, declared in a official statement that the prison’s warden was “helping” the convict with copying, printing, and sending documents to aid her effort for executive mercy.

Specific details of the clemency request remain unclear, Raskin added.

Claimed Perks and Custom Arrangements

Raskin states that, per the insider, Maxwell has been given specially prepared food that are “personally delivered” to her cell, and the supervisor has “personally arranged” exclusive visits for her and her visitors.

The visits allegedly include a “special cordoned-off area” for visitors and “an assortment of snacks and refreshments” for her associates.

Those visiting Maxwell were also reportedly permitted to bring computers, which Raskin described as an “unprecedented action” given the security risk and chance of unmonitored communications.

In one alleged instance, when phone lines went down for other inmates, Maxwell was given specific instructions about who she should tell her associates to contact and how staff would relay the call to her.

Supervisor Acting as Assistant

The source also allegedly told House Democrats that when the convict wanted to examine and modify papers promptly, she reportedly employed the official as her private aide.

The statement states that those writing to her would send files directly to the warden, who would hand them over to the inmate, for her to examine and change and return them to the warden to digitize and send to the original sender.

Extra Benefits Alleged

Further perks allegedly granted to Maxwell include opportunities to interact with a trainee assistance dog – a perk not “ordinarily allowed” – as well as exclusive nighttime use to the facility's gym.

Maxwell’s attorney has not yet replied to a request for comment regarding the whistleblower’s claims.

In a statement, the White House said that it “will not discuss” on possible pardon appeals.

“Per the President's remarks, pardoning the convict is not something he has thought about,” the representative added.

Recent Background

Over the weekend, it was reported that she told friends and family in electronic messages that she was more content at the Texas facility than her previous prison.

This past summer, she was moved from a secure facility in Florida's capital to the minimum-security camp in Texas, where most inmates are incarcerated for non-violent offenses and white-collar crimes.

The transfer, which experts described as exceptional, occurred just shortly following she was questioned about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation by the deputy attorney general, the official, who also previously served as the President's personal lawyer.

That interview came as the administration was facing mounting pressure to disclose additional files related to the Epstein investigation and amid widespread conjecture around Trump's own personal ties to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, who was found deceased in custody in 2019 while awaiting prosecution on sex-trafficking charges.

Congressional Response

In the news release, the congressman also announced that he had dispatched a communication to the President, requesting explanations about the insider's claims, and urged the chief executive to deny the clemency appeal.

“It would be inappropriate to approve any type of pardon to this convicted and unrepentant criminal,” Raskin wrote in the document. “The government must not offer her with room service, with canine interaction, with government agents waiting on her every need, or with any preferential handling or institutional privilege at all.”

The congressman asked that Blanche appear for a open legislative session to address the disclosures and also posed three questions to Trump.

He inquired whether he had discussed a possible clemency for Maxwell with Blanche or others, whether he had directed Blanche or anyone else to arrange her with the transfer or favorable and preferential treatment in detention, and whether she, her lawyers, relatives or agents have made any promises to the President or his attorneys.

Raskin has asked for a response to the inquiries by the specified date.

In October, the US supreme court declined to hear an petition from Maxwell on her sex-trafficking conviction.