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The Guardian - US
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Victoria Bekiempis

Ghislaine Maxwell: could talking about Epstein be her get out of jail free card?

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Ghislaine Maxwell in 2013. She has demanded immunity to testify before Congress, while also petitioning the supreme court and seeking clemency. Photograph: Rick Bajornas/AP

Since Ghislaine Maxwell met with federal prosecutors last week, the imprisoned British socialite’s legal team has portrayed her as a beacon of truth willing to discuss all matters related to her child sex-trafficking co-conspirator Jeffrey Epstein’s many crimes.

“Ghislaine answered every single question asked of her over the last day and a half. She answered those questions honestly, truthfully, to the best of her ability,” attorney David Oscar Markus told reporters. “She never invoked a privilege. She never refused to answer a question.”

Maxwell’s highly unusual two-day sit-down with the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche – who served as Donald Trump’s criminal defense attorney before working for his justice department – came as the US president tiptoes through a political minefield related to Epstein and his own social links to the disgraced former financier.

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