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(NewsNation) — "Epstein-gate" is changing by the day.
On Wednesday, the United States House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Jeffrey Epstein's convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. On Thursday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche with the Department of Justice interviewed her. Now, her member is saying records beryllium that could person changed her blameworthy verdict.
"She volition beryllium putting earlier that tribunal worldly caller grounds that was not disposable to the defence astatine her 2021 trial, which would person had a important interaction connected its outcome," helium told The New York Post.
Maxwell is expected to conscionable with Blanche again.
Ghislaine Maxwell meets with DOJ
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell be the 2005 Wall Street Concert Series connected March 15, 2005, successful New York City. (Photo by Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Tenerife, Mort du magnat et homme politique britannique Robert Maxwell. Ici, sa fille Ghislaine Maxwell sur le yacht de lad père "Le Lady Ghislaine". Elle sera, au début des années 2000, la compagne de l'homme d'affaires Jeffrey Epstein (Photo by Mathieu Polak/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)
FILE - Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. lawyer for the Southern District of New York, points to a photograph of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, during a quality league successful New York, connected July 2, 2020. Maxwell faces the likelihood of years successful situation erstwhile she is sentenced for helping the affluent financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually maltreatment underage girls. The sentencing hearing, Tuesday, June 28, 2022, successful New York volition beryllium the culmination of a prosecution that elaborate however Epstein and Maxwell flaunted their riches and associations with salient radical to groom susceptible girls and past exploit them. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
From left, American existent property developer Donald Trump and his woman (and aboriginal wife), erstwhile exemplary Melania Knauss, financier (and aboriginal convicted enactment offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell airs unneurotic astatine the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000. (Photo by Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)
"Today, I met with Ghislaine Maxwell, and I volition proceed my interrogation of her tomorrow. The Department of Justice volition stock further accusation astir what we learned astatine the due time," Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche with the DOJ wrote connected X connected Thursday.
The gathering betwixt Maxwell and the feds comes arsenic the Trump medication faces continued backlash and questions implicit its caller refusal to merchandise much records successful the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year condemnation for her relation successful helping the disgraced financier sexually maltreatment underage girls. She is appealing her sentence.
Her attorney, David Oscar Markus, was asked Thursday astir the anticipation of a reduced condemnation oregon a pardon. He said she's conscionable answering questions for now.
"[Blanche] took a afloat time and asked a batch of questions," Markus said. "Miss Maxwell answered each azygous question. She ne'er stopped. She ne'er invoked a privilege. She ne'er declined to answer. She answered each the questions truthfully, honestly and to the champion of her ability," Markus told reporters extracurricular a national courthouse successful Tallahassee, Florida, Thursday afternoon.
