Rep.Jamie Raskin sent a sharply worded six-page letter to President Donald Trump on Sunday following new information his committee received from a whistleblower alleging that Ghislaine Maxwell is preparing a "commutation application" for the Trump administration and receiving preferential treatment while incarcerated.Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, accused the Trump administration of allowing "a corrupt misuse of law-enforcement resources" and demanded that Deputy U.S.
Attorney General Todd Blanche testify before the Judiciary Committee immediately to "answer for this corrupt misuse of law enforcement resources and potential exchange of favors for false testimony exonerating you and other Epstein accomplices."The letter is a follow-up to an August 12 letter Raskin and other Democrats sent to the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Prisons about Maxwell’s transfer to Federal Prison Camp Bryan, a minimum-security facility that he said was an "apparent flagrant violation of BOP policies, including one that explicitly prohibits the placement of sex offenders in such facilities."Bureau of Prisons moves Ghislaine Maxwell to prison camp in TexasMaxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for child sex trafficking and other offenses in connection with Jeffrey Epstein, the former financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide in jail in 2019.Popular ReadsGovernment shutdown updates: Senate vote marks step towards ending federal shutdownNov 9, 11:48 PMJustice temporarily pauses order requiring Trump admin to fully fund SNAPNov 7, 9:59 PMHurricane Melissa live updates: No official death toll in JamaicaOct 30, 10:54 PMFCI Tallahassee in Florida, where Maxwell had been held, is a "low security" prison for men and women, while FPC Bryan is a "minimum security" camp just for women.The transfer followed Maxwell's two-day meeting in July with Blanche in Tallahassee, where her attorney said the two discussed "about 100 names" associated ...