Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell intends to plead the Fifth Amendment when she appears before Congressional investigators.
According to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer, Maxwell’s lawyers have replied that “she’s not going to answer any questions”
He told Politico: “She’s only going to plead the Fifth.”
InfoWars reports: Comer went on to say it is unlikely the Committee will send lawyers or staff to visit Maxwell, who is being held in a Texas jail.
“I mean, I could spend a bunch of taxpayer dollars to send staff and members down there, and if she’s going to plead the Fifth, I don’t know that that’s a good investment,” he said.
The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Maxwell to testify, in July.
Her attorney has said she will only do so if granted full immunity from prosecution.
“[I]f Ms. Maxwell were to receive clemency, she would be willing—and eager—to testify openly and honestly, in public, before Congress in Washington, D.C.,” her attorney David Oscar Markus wrote at the time. The committee rejected Maxwell’s request, as well as her demand that questions be provided in advance.
The Epstein files have been a source of bitter controversy for the Trump administration for months, after the President and senior members of his administration promised full disclosure during last year’s election campaign.
This week, President Trump—who had previously dismissed the files as a “Democrat hoax”—urged Republican members of Congress to support their release by voting in favour of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The Act passed 427-1 in the House before passing unanimously in the Senate. President Trump signed the act into law on Wednesday.
On Friday, Attorney General Pam Bondi filed an expedited motion seeking the release of the grand-jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein case. President Trump had originally directed AG Bondi to release the files back in July, but the move was blocked in federal court. Grand-jury transcripts are normally kept sealed to protect the reputations of those under investigation and to make it easier to obtain truthful testimony from witnesses.