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According to new allegations from a informant, Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year prison term for trafficking offenses, is reportedly preparing a commutation application for consideration by the presidential administration.

Special Treatment Alleged at Correctional Facility

House Democrats on the House judiciary committee announced that a whistleblower provided information indicating the inmate is working on the clemency petition. They also stated she has been given preferential conditions at the federal prison camp in Texas.

Congressman Jamie Raskin, the ranking member on the House judiciary committee, stated in a news release that the facility's chief was assisting Maxwell with copying, printing, and sending documents to aid her effort for clemency.

Specific details of the clemency request are unclear, the congressman noted.

Alleged Privileges and Custom Arrangements

Raskin states that, per the insider, the prisoner has been given specially prepared food that are “personally delivered” to her living area, and the supervisor has individually organized private meetings for her and her guests.

These meetings allegedly include a designated private space for visitors and a variety of food and drinks for her guests.

Those visiting Maxwell were also reportedly permitted to bring computers, which the congressman characterized as an exceptional measure given the security risk and chance of unmonitored communications.

Reportedly on one occasion, when phone lines went down for other inmates, Maxwell was provided directions about instructing her contacts to contact and how staff would connect the communication to her.

Warden as “Personal Secretary”

The source also allegedly told congressional members that when the convict wanted to examine and modify papers promptly, she “essentially used” the warden as her private aide.

The statement indicates that those writing to her would email documents directly to the warden, who would hand them over to Maxwell, for her to examine and change and return them to the official to digitize and send to the original sender.

Extra Benefits Reported

Other privileges allegedly granted to her include time to “play with” a trainee assistance dog – a perk typically prohibited – as well as private after-hours access to the facility's gym.

Her legal counsel has not yet replied to a request for comment regarding the whistleblower’s claims.

In a statement, the White House said that it “will not discuss” on possible pardon appeals.

“Per the President's remarks, pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell is not something he has thought about,” the representative noted.

Recent Background

Recently, it was reported that she told close associates in emails from prison that she was “much happier” at the new prison than her former location.

This past summer, she was transferred from a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida to the minimum-security camp in Texas, where most inmates are serving time for non-violent offenses and white-collar crimes.

The transfer, which authorities called as “unprecedented”, occurred just days after she was questioned about the Epstein case by the senior justice official, the official, who also once acted as Donald Trump's private attorney.

This questioning came as the Trump administration was facing mounting pressure to release more documents related to the Epstein investigation and amid widespread conjecture around the President's own connections to the disgraced financier and adjudicated criminal, who was found deceased in custody in that year while facing trial on trafficking accusations.

Lawmaker Reactions

Through the statement, Raskin also revealed that he had sent a letter to Trump, demanding answers about the whistleblower’s allegations, and urged the president to deny the clemency appeal.

“It would be inappropriate to approve any form of clemency to this convicted and unrepentant criminal,” Raskin wrote in the letter. “Your Administration should not be providing her with personal amenities, with canine interaction, with federal law enforcement officials attending to her requests, or with any special treatment or facility benefit at all.”

The congressman asked that the official appear for a open legislative session to discuss the revelations and also presented several inquiries to Trump.

Raskin asked whether he had discussed a potential commutation for Maxwell with Blanche or others, whether he had directed him or anyone else to arrange her with the move or favorable and preferential treatment in prison, and whether she, her attorneys, relatives or representatives have made any promises to Trump or his attorneys.

Raskin has asked for a reply to the questions by 24 November.

In October, the nation's highest court rejected an petition from Maxwell on her sex-trafficking conviction.