"She's come under new scrutiny as lawmakers try to investigate how Epstein, a well-connected financier, was able to sexually abuse underage girls for years. Amid a reckoning over Epstein's abuse that has spilled into the highest levels of businesses and governments around the globe, lawmakers are searching for anyone who was connected to Epstein and may have facilitated his abuse."
"Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, declined to answer questions from House lawmakers in a deposition Monday, but indicated that if President Donald Trump ended her prison sentence, she was willing to testify that neither he nor former President Bill Clinton had done anything wrong in their connections with Epstein. The House Oversight Committee had wanted Maxwell to answer questions during a video call to the federal prison camp in Texas"
"Dressed in a brown, prison-issued shirt and sitting at a conference table with a bottle of water, Maxwell repeatedly said she was invoking "my Fifth Amendment right to silence," video later released by the committee showed. During the closed-door deposition, Maxwell's attorney David Oscar Markus said in a statement to the committee that "Maxwell is prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump.""
Ghislaine Maxwell declined to answer questions from House lawmakers during a deposition, invoking her Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination. She said she would be willing to testify that neither President Donald Trump nor former President Bill Clinton did anything wrong in their connections with Jeffrey Epstein if Trump ended her prison sentence. She is serving a 20-year sentence in Texas for sex trafficking. Lawmakers are probing how Epstein was able to sexually abuse underage girls for years and seeking anyone who may have facilitated his abuse. Maxwell's attorney said she is prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump.
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