BBC News, New York
Gety picturesA senior official at the United States Ministry of Justice says he will resume his interrogation from his colleague at Jeffrey Epstein for a long time on Jeffrey Maxwell on Friday – after a first Thursday meeting that was described as “very fruitful” by Maxwell’s lawyer.
The pressure was growing on US President Donald Trump’s officials to issue files related to two -year -old, the late condemned, after Trump pledged pledges to the campaign’s path last year.
Attention has recently returned to Maxwell, 63, who helped Epstein abuse young girls.
In his latest comments, Trump suggested that the renewed focus on Epstein was the result of an effort by the opposition Democrats to distract his accomplishments in his position.
Maxwell’s meeting with American Public Prosecutor Todd Blanche was held in Talahasi, Florida, where she is serving a 20 -year prison sentence for sex trafficking.
Her lawyer David Marcus told her American BBC CBS News that he would not comment on the essence of discussions, but he said, “There were many questions and we went throughout the day.”
“I answered each of them,” he said. “I never said that I will not answer, and never refused.”
Mr. Marcus told reporters that he was “grateful” that Blanche came to ask Maxwell’s questions. “It is the first time that the government has done so. So it was a good day.”
In a short post in X, Blache wrote: “Today, I met with Ghislaine Maxwell, and I will continue to meet me tomorrow. The Ministry of Justice will share additional information about what we have learned in time.”
Blanche said earlier this week that he intends to talk to Maxwell about any information she had about other people who may have helped them Epstein in a sexual abuse.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, a democratic and fierce critic of Trump, took a case with the fact that Trump sent Blanche, his former personal lawyer who turned to the Federal Public Prosecutor, to meet Maxwell before her potential public testimony.
“The conflict of interests is blatant. It is imitating the high corruption,” he said.
In a publication on the social truth late on Thursday, Trump said that the renewed focus on Epstein was a “fraud” and a “democratic function”, and the Shomer party accused the attempt to “pay attention and confusion” from the achievements of the first six months of his second term in his position.
The calls were recently intensified by the American public – including the loyal Trump supporters – and legislators of the Ministry of Justice to issue files related to the issue of Epstein.
On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi informed Trump while briefing May that his name appeared in the documents of the Ministry of Justice related to two pasts.
Trump and Ebstein were friends before, according to the president, fell in the early first decade of the twentieth century.
He pushed the White House back, and rejected the WSJ story as “fake news”.
But a White House official did not reveal his name, telling Reuters news agency that they do not deny that Trump’s name appears in the documents.
The official referred to the Epstein files revealed by the Ministry of Justice, which included Trump.
The name in the documents is not evidence of any criminal activity, and Trump has never accused of committing violations regarding the Ibstein case.
During his campaign for the presidency last year, Trump promised to issue such files about the well -connected sexual perpetrator.
But his supporters have since become frustrated by dealing with the administration with the case, including its failure to provide a famous “customer list” from Epstein. In a note earlier this month, the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Investigation Office said that there is no such list.
Epstein died in the New York Prison in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking, following a previous conviction for seeking prostitution from a minor. His death was committing suicide.
In the following years, conspiracy theories have spread around the nature of his crimes and death themselves.
On Wednesday, a sub -committee of the American House of Representatives voted to summon the Ministry of Justice for files, which the chairman of the committee must be signed.
Republicans in the House of Representatives Supervisory Committee also summoned to testify before the committee remotely from prison on August 11.
Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson has warned that Maxwell – who helped for years helped Epsin the groom and girls in sexual abuse – could not be trusted to provide an accurate certificate.
Maxwell’s lawyer, Marcus, told the BBC that the concerns are “baseless” and that if she chose to testify, instead of calling her constitutional right to remain silent, “she was honestly witnessing, as she always said it.”
Last week, the Ministry of Justice asked a federal judge to release the certificate of the major jury, which lasted years ago related to an investigation in Florida 2006 in Epstein, but a federal judge in the state on Wednesday publicly rejected the documents.