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Miami (USA), July 29 (EFE).- Ghislaine Maxwell, ex-girlfriend and accomplice of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, demanded this Tuesday immunity or a pardon in exchange for testifying before the United States Congress, as requested by a committee of the House of Representatives amid the renewed controversy of the case during the Donald Trump Administration.
The defense of the woman, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking in Florida, responded with a list of conditions to the request made last week by the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, who summoned her to testify on August 11 to provide new information about the case.
As a primary request, lawyer David Markus demanded that he be granted immunity and that the appearance occur in Washington and not at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee, Florida's capital, where he is serving his sentence, as requested by the committee.
"If Ms. Maxwell were to receive clemency, she would have the will and be eager to testify openly and honestly in public before Congress in Washington D.C. She welcomes the opportunity to share the truth," states the letter shared by the jurist.
The conditions are disseminated one day after Maxwell asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revoke her 20-year prison sentence for being an accomplice of Epstein, a magnate accused of pedophilia and sexual trafficking of minors who committed suicide in a New York prison in 2019, and who had previously been convicted in Florida for related events.
The defense has seen the meetings she and U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche had last Thursday and Friday as an "opportunity" as citizen pressure mounts, particularly from Trump supporters, for the current Administration to release all case files.
As a second condition, lawyer Markus requested that Congress provide him in advance with the questions they will ask him so that he can prepare "significantly" and gather the documents that will corroborate his answers.
And, finally, he requested that the hearing occur after the U.S. Supreme Court analyzes the revocation of the sentence, arguing that Epstein made an agreement in 2007 in the Southern District of Florida in which the Government "agrees that it will not institute any criminal charges against any possible accomplice."
"She deserves relief. We are open to working with the committee to find a path forward that respects her constitutional rights and allows her to assist the American people and the Committee in this important oversight mission," the defense concluded.
The controversy surrounding the Epstein case was reignited on July 7th after a memorandum in which the DOJ and the FBI concluded that the magnate did not maintain a "list of famous clients" to whom he offered minors and that he did commit suicide, which contradicts a conspiracy theory popular among Trump supporters.
