Fortune | FORTUNE 07月30日 05:07
Ghislaine Maxwell holds out for immunity in exchange for testimony to Congress
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Ghislaine Maxwell 的律师表示,她愿意配合国会就 Jeffrey Epstein 案件的问询,但前提是她必须获得未来不受起诉的豁免权。她还要求提前获知问题清单,并在其向美国最高法院提出的案件审查申请有结果后,再安排问询。然而,负责此事的国会委员会已明确拒绝了提供豁免权的提议。Maxwell 的律师此前曾表示,其当事人的初步想法是援引第五修正案的沉默权,但若能满足豁免权等条件,她也愿意合作。此外,Maxwell 的律师还在敦促最高法院审查她的定罪,认为其审判不公,并表示如果能获得特朗普总统的赦免,她也愿意“公开诚实地作证”。

✨ Ghislaine Maxwell 方面表示,她愿意配合国会就 Jeffrey Epstein 案件的问询,但提出的条件是必须获得未来不受起诉的豁免权,并且要求提前获知问询问题,以及在她的最高法院案件审查结果出来后再进行问询。这表明她希望在作证时能规避潜在的法律风险。

🏛️ 国会监督委员会方面对 Maxwell 的提议做出了强硬回应,明确表示不会考虑提供国会豁免权。这显示了国会与 Maxwell 之间在条件上的根本性分歧,委员会似乎不愿满足 Maxwell 的核心诉求,这可能导致问询无法顺利进行。

⚖️ Maxwell 的律师团队正在积极寻求最高法院审查她的定罪,并声称她的审判不公。同时,他们也提出,如果 Maxwell 能获得特朗普总统的赦免,她将愿意“公开诚实地作证”,这表明她寻求通过其他途径来保障自己的利益和洗清嫌疑。

📢 Maxwell 本人表示欢迎分享“真相”并“消除案件中的误解和失实陈述”。这句话暗示了她认为自己是被冤枉的,并希望通过她的证词来澄清事实,但她是否能如愿,很大程度上取决于国会和法院的态度以及她自身能否获得有利的法律地位。

🔍 此次国会问询的背景是,在司法部宣布不再发布 Epstein 案的额外调查记录后,公众对该案件的关注度再次升温。许多在线侦探、阴谋论者以及部分特朗普支持者希望找到政府掩盖真相的证据,这使得 Maxwell 的证词可能牵涉到更广泛的政治和社会议题。

Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, is open to answering questions from Congress — but only if she is granted immunity from future prosecution for her testimony, her lawyers said Tuesday.

A spokeswoman for the committee that wants to interview her responded with a terse statement saying it would not consider offering her immunity.

Maxwell’s lawyers also asked that they be provided with any questions in advance and that any interview with her be scheduled after her petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to take up her case has been resolved.

The conditions were laid out in a letter sent by Maxwell’s attorneys to Rep. James Comer, the Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee who last week issued a subpoena for her deposition at the Florida prison where she is serving a 20-year-prison sentence on a conviction of conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse underage girls.

The request to interview her is part of a frenzied, renewed interest in the Epstein saga following the Justice Department’s July statement that it would not be releasing any additional records from the investigation, an abrupt announcement that stunned online sleuths, conspiracy theorists and elements of President Donald Trump’s base who had been hoping to find proof of a government coverup.

Since then, the Trump administration has sought to present itself as promoting transparency, with the department urging courts to unseal grand jury transcripts from the sex-trafficking investigation and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche interviewing Maxwell over the course of two days at a Florida courthouse last week.

In a letter Tuesday, Maxwell’s attorneys said that though their initial instinct was for Maxwell to invoke her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, they are open to having her cooperate provided that lawmakers satisfy their request for immunity and other conditions.

But the Oversight Committee seemed to reject that offer outright.

“The Oversight Committee will respond to Ms. Maxwell’s attorney soon, but it will not consider granting congressional immunity for her testimony,” a spokesperson said.

Separately, Maxwell’s attorneys have urged the Supreme Court to review her conviction, saying she dd not receive a fair trial. They also say that one way she would testify “openly and honestly, in public,” is in the event of a pardon by Trump, who has told reporters that such a move is within his rights but that he has not been not asked to make it.

“She welcomes the opportunity to share the truth and to dispel the many misconceptions and misstatements that have plagued this case from the beginning,” he said.

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