{"id":15938,"date":"2025-11-22T08:20:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T08:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ghislaine-maxwell-will-plead-fifth-in-house-epstein-probe-comer-says-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T08:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T08:20:45","slug":"ghislaine-maxwell-will-plead-fifth-in-house-epstein-probe-comer-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ghislaine-maxwell-will-plead-fifth-in-house-epstein-probe-comer-says-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghislaine Maxwell will plead Fifth in House Epstein probe, Comer says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted co-conspirator of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, will refuse to answer questions in the House Oversight Committee&#8217;s probe into Epstein and the Justice Department&rsquo;s handling of the case, Oversight Chair James Comer said. Maxwell&#8217;s legal team said she would invoke her Fifth Amendment rights if she sat with congressional investigators&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/11\/21\/congress\/ghislaine-maxwell-plead-fifth-house-oversight-00664640\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted co-conspirator of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, will refuse to answer questions in the House Oversight Committee&#8217;s probe into Epstein and the Justice Department&rsquo;s handling of the case, Oversight Chair James Comer said. Maxwell&#8217;s legal team said she would invoke her Fifth Amendment rights if she sat with congressional investigators&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}