The Trump administration is considering publicly publishing the transcription of the two -day interview of an official of the Department of Justice with Ghislaine Maxwell last month, a source familiar with the issue at NBC News said Tuesday.
“We are tilting towards transparency,” said the source.
The attached attorney general Todd Blanche met with Maxwell, the conspirator and confidant of Jeffrey Epstein, for nine hours of interviews for two days in July. The former prosecutors told NBC News last month that it was very unusual for the second command of the Department of Justice to personally interview a witness.
Blanche did not make public statements about what Maxwell said or what would come later in Epstein’s investigation. Days later, Maxwell was transferred from a Florida prison to a minimum security prison in Texas, where most inmates are time for non -violent crimes and white -collar crimes.
Maxwell is fulfilling a 20 -year prison sentence for his role in recruitment and trafficking in children for sex.
The appointment of the prison office would have made Maxwell not eligible for transfer, since Bop’s policy requires that sentenced sexual criminals must be maintained in at least one low security level. The only work of the rule is whether the office designation and computing office issues an exemption.
Epstein’s survivors and their families have eliminated the transfer, describing it as “preferential treatment.” Former BOP officials have similarly ridiculed the measure, and a former official calls him “a parody of justice.”
Maxwell has been at the Center for Attention in the midst of the consequences of archival management of the Trump administration related to Epstein, the sentenced sexual offender who died in prison in 2019 waiting for trial for federal positions of sexual trafficking.
The members of the base of President Donald Trump, as well as some members of the Cabinet, have advocated a long time for the launch of the archives, with some theories of conspiracy about the death of Epstein. Trump promised in the campaign last year to launch the files if chosen.
The problem became a division source between Trump and its Maga base after the Department of Justice said last month that it would not release more files related to the case.
Trump has sometimes dismissed the importance of the issue, but recently ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the release of the relevant testimony of the Grand Jury. The order occurred after the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump sent Epstein a “obscene” birthday card in 2003. Trump then demanded the newspaper.
