{"id":18806,"date":"2026-02-09T23:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ghislaine-maxwell-pleads-the-fifth-in-house-oversight-epstein-investigation-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T23:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:22:16","slug":"ghislaine-maxwell-pleads-the-fifth-in-house-oversight-epstein-investigation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ghislaine-maxwell-pleads-the-fifth-in-house-oversight-epstein-investigation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghislaine Maxwell pleads the Fifth in House Oversight Epstein investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The congressional investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein hit its latest snag Monday morning when Epstein&rsquo;s longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, declined to answer questions in a sworn deposition. Maxwell, now serving a 20-year sentence for her part in Epstein&rsquo;s sex trafficking scheme, invoked her Fifth Amendment right over video from a prison camp in Texas&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/09\/congress\/maxwell-pleads-the-fifth-00771258\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The congressional investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein hit its latest snag Monday morning when Epstein&rsquo;s longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, declined to answer questions in a sworn deposition. Maxwell, now serving a 20-year sentence for her part in Epstein&rsquo;s sex trafficking scheme, invoked her Fifth Amendment right over video from a prison camp in [&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-18806","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\/18806","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=18806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}