Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell pleaded the Fifth before the House Oversight Committee.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) sent a letter over the weekend to Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), requesting confirmation as to whether Maxwell would plead the Fifth. “It is my understanding that Ms. Ghislaine Maxwell intends to invoke her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and decline to answer all substantive questions at her upcoming deposition before the House Oversight Committee,” the letter read.
Khanna noted that the “position appears inconsistent with Ms. Maxwell’s prior conduct, as she did not invoke the Fifth Amendment when she previously met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to discuss substantially similar subject matter.”
Last month, Maxwell’s lawyers sent a letter to the Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) this week, writing that Maxwell will “invoke her privilege against self-incrimination and decline to answer questions. That is not a negotiating position or a tactical choice, it is a legal necessity.”
“Put plainly, proceeding under these circumstances would serve no other purpose than pure political theater and a complete waste of taxpayer monies,” the letter added. “The Committee would obtain no testimony, no answers, and no new facts. The only certainty is a public spectacle in which a witness repeatedly invokes the Fifth Amendment.”
The Committee’s hearing follows the Department of Justice releasing more than three million files relating to Epstein. The latest document drop contains more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images and contain information related to the “Florida and New York cases against Epstein, the New York case against Maxwell, the New York cases investigating Epstein’s death, the Florida case investigating a former butler of Epstein, Multiple FBI investigations, and the Office of Inspector General investigation into Epstein’s death,” the DOJ explained.
