
The closed-door meeting between the US Department of Justice's second-in-command and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday is being described as "far outside the norm."
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche—formerly Donald Trump's personal attorney and now the second-ranking official at the DOJ—spent Thursday huddled with Maxwell and her lawyer. The DOJ is exploring whether Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for grooming and trafficking underage girls to the late Jeffrey Epstein, is willing to reveal more information about her former boyfriend amid widespread demands for public disclosure on details of the sex trafficking operation.