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Per new allegations from a whistleblower, 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.

Preferential Handling Claimed at Correctional Facility

House Democrats on the judicial oversight panel announced that a whistleblower provided evidence indicating the inmate is preparing the commutation application. They also stated she has been given preferential conditions at the federal prison camp in the Lone Star State.

Representative Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the committee, stated in a news release that the prison’s warden was assisting Maxwell with copying, printing, and sending documents to aid her effort for clemency.

Specific details of the “commutation application” remain unclear, the congressman noted.

Alleged Privileges and Special Accommodations

Raskin states that, according to the whistleblower, the prisoner has been receiving “customized” meals that are “personally delivered” to her living area, and the warden has “personally arranged” private meetings for her and her visitors.

These meetings allegedly include a “special cordoned-off area” for visitors and a variety of food and drinks for her associates.

Maxwell’s visitors were also allowed to bring computers, which Raskin described as an exceptional measure given the security risk and chance of unmonitored communications.

In one alleged instance, when phone lines went down for other prisoners, she was provided directions about who she should tell her associates to contact and how staff would relay the call to her.

Supervisor Acting as Assistant

The whistleblower further reportedly told congressional members that when the convict wanted to examine and modify papers “quickly”, she “essentially used” the official as her private aide.

The statement states that those writing to her would send files directly to the supervisor, who would provide them to Maxwell, 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 allegedly granted to her include opportunities to interact with a service dog puppy – a benefit typically prohibited – as well as private after-hours access to the facility's gym.

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

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

“As President Trump has stated, pardoning the convict is not something he has thought about,” the representative noted.

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.

In August, Maxwell was transferred from a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida to the minimum-security camp in Texas, where most detainees are incarcerated for non-violent offenses and white-collar crimes.

This move, which authorities called as exceptional, occurred just days after she was interviewed about the Epstein case by the senior justice official, Todd Blanche, who also previously served as the President's private attorney.

This questioning came as the Trump administration was facing mounting pressure to disclose additional files related to the Epstein investigation and amid widespread conjecture around Trump's own connections to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, who was found dead in a New York jail in that year while awaiting prosecution on sex-trafficking charges.

Lawmaker Reactions

Through the statement, Raskin also revealed that he had sent a letter to the President, demanding answers about the insider's claims, and urged the chief executive to deny the clemency appeal.

“It would be inappropriate to approve any form of clemency to this adjudicated and remorseless sex offender,” Raskin wrote in the letter. “The government must not offer her with personal amenities, with puppies to play with, with government agents waiting on her every need, or with any special treatment or facility benefit at all.”

Raskin requested that Blanche appear for a open legislative session to discuss the revelations and also posed three questions to the President.

Raskin asked whether he had talked about a possible clemency for Maxwell with the official or others, whether he had directed Blanche or anyone else to arrange Maxwell with the transfer or special conditions in detention, and whether Maxwell, her lawyers, family or agents have made any commitments to Trump or his attorneys.

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

In October, the US supreme court declined to hear an appeal from the convict on her trafficking verdict.