By Steve Neavling
Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche met Thursday with Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, at a federal courthouse in Tallahassee, and said he plans to continue the interview Friday, Reuters reports.
“We had a very productive day today with the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Ghislaine Maxwell,” her attorney, David Oscar Markus, told reporters. He said Maxwell answered all of Blanche’s questions but declined to discuss the details “for obvious reasons.”
Blanche, who has faced mounting pressure from supporters of President Donald Trump to release more information about the Epstein investigation, said earlier this week he contacted Maxwell’s lawyers to determine whether she “has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims.”
Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking after her 2021 conviction. Epstein died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on similar charges.
The Justice Department has recently sought permission to unseal grand jury transcripts related to Epstein and Maxwell, though a federal judge on Wednesday denied one such request. The department said it will “share additional information about what we learned at the appropriate time.”
