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Per 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 judicial oversight panel announced that a whistleblower provided evidence indicating Maxwell is working on the clemency petition. They also stated she has been receiving special treatment at the minimum-security facility in the Lone Star State.

Congressman Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House judiciary committee, declared in a news release that the prison’s warden was “helping” the convict with document preparation and submission to aid her effort for clemency.

Specific details of the “commutation application” remain unknown, Raskin added.

Claimed Perks and Special Accommodations

Raskin states that, according to the whistleblower, Maxwell has been receiving “customized” meals that are “personally delivered” to her cell, and the supervisor has “personally arranged” private meetings for Maxwell and her guests.

The visits reportedly involve a designated private space for visitors and a variety of food and drinks for her guests.

Maxwell’s visitors were also allowed to bring computers, which Raskin described as an exceptional measure given the security risk and potential for unsupervised contact.

Reportedly on one occasion, when phone lines went down for other inmates, she was provided directions about who she should tell her associates to contact and how personnel would relay the call to her.

Warden as “Personal Secretary”

The whistleblower further reportedly told House Democrats that when the convict wanted to examine and modify papers promptly, she reportedly employed the official as her private aide.

The statement indicates that Maxwell’s correspondents would email documents directly to the supervisor, who would hand them over to the inmate, who would review and edit them and return them to the warden to digitize and send to the initial correspondent.

Additional Privileges Alleged

Further perks allegedly granted to her include time to “play with” a service dog puppy – a perk not “ordinarily allowed” – as well as private after-hours access to the facility's gym.

Maxwell’s attorney has not yet replied to a request for comment regarding the whistleblower’s claims.

Through a spokesperson, the White House said that it “will not discuss” on potential clemency requests.

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

Recent Background

Recently, reports surfaced that she told close associates in electronic messages that she was “much happier” at the new prison than her previous prison.

This past summer, she was moved from a secure facility in Florida's capital to the less restrictive prison in Texas, where most inmates are serving time for non-violent offenses and white-collar crimes.

This move, which authorities called as “unprecedented”, occurred just days after she was questioned about the Epstein case by the senior justice official, Todd Blanche, who also previously served as Donald Trump's private attorney.

This questioning came as the administration was facing mounting pressure to release more documents related to the Epstein investigation and amid intense speculation around the President's own personal ties to the disgraced financier and adjudicated criminal, who was found dead in a New York jail in that year while facing trial on sex-trafficking charges.

Congressional Response

Through the statement, Raskin also announced that he had dispatched a communication to the President, demanding answers about the whistleblower’s allegations, and urged the chief executive to deny the clemency appeal.

“It would be inappropriate to approve any form of clemency to this adjudicated and remorseless criminal,” Raskin wrote in the letter. “The government must not offer her with room service, with puppies to play with, with federal law enforcement officials waiting on her every need, or with any preferential handling or facility benefit at all.”

The congressman asked that Blanche appear for a public congressional hearing to discuss the revelations and also posed three questions to Trump.

He inquired whether he had discussed a possible clemency for the convict with Blanche or others, whether he had instructed him or anyone else to arrange her with the move or favorable and preferential treatment in prison, and whether Maxwell, her lawyers, relatives or agents have made any commitments to Trump or his attorneys.

The representative requested for a reply to the inquiries by the specified date.

Last month, the nation's highest court rejected an appeal from Maxwell on her trafficking verdict.