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Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted accomplice of disgraced financier and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, is reportedly seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from President Donald Trump.

Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee said Monday that the panel received new information from a purported whistleblower who revealed that the former socialite is working on a “commutation application,” the strongest indicator yet that Maxwell might seek Trump’s legal intervention. According to that same whistleblower, Maxwell has also received preferential treatment at the Texas minimum security prison camp she was moved to from a Florida federal prison in August after she was questioned by Justice Department officials about Epstein. NBC News adds:

“I am struggling to keep it all together as it is big and there are so many attachments,” Maxwell wrote in an e-mail to her attorney, Leaf Saffian, which was reviewed by NBC News. The subject line of the email reads “commutation application.” …

According to the whistleblower, whose identity the committee has not revealed, Maxwell has received what was described as “concierge-style” treatment at the minimum security prison camp that she was transferred to, including customized meals, permission to go to the exercise area after hours, and time to play with a puppy that was being trained by an inmate to become a service dog, among other things.

The whistleblower also claimed that a top official at the prison camp complained he is “sick of having to be Maxwell’s bitch.”

Representative Jamie Raskin, the committee’s ranking member, wrote in a letter to the president demanding that Trump make deputy attorney general Todd Blanche available for a hearing with the committee in order to “answer for this corrupt misuse of law enforcement resources and potential exchange of favors for false testimony exonerating you and other Epstein accomplices.”

Raskin also directed a series of questions at Trump himself, asking whether he had ever discussed any potential clemency actions for Maxwell with Blanche and whether he directed Blanche or any other administration officials to provide Maxwell with preferential treatment, seeking a response by November 25. “The time has come to cease any coy or sly answers about granting clemency to a convicted child sex predator,” Raskin said.

In 2022, Maxwell was sentenced to serve 20 years following her convictions on charges related to the sex trafficking of young girls. She sought to appeal her case to the U.S. Supreme Court which ultimately declined to hear the matter.

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