{"id":21719,"date":"2026-04-22T17:17:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-democrat-pushes-doj-on-possible-pardon-for-ghislaine-maxwell\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:17:41","slug":"house-democrat-pushes-doj-on-possible-pardon-for-ghislaine-maxwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-democrat-pushes-doj-on-possible-pardon-for-ghislaine-maxwell\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrat pushes DOJ on possible pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi wants answers from the Justice Department about internal communications regarding a possible pardon for Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter sent Wednesday to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the <a href=\"https:\/\/krishnamoorthi.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/krishnamoorthi.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2026.04.22-krishnamoorthi-blanche-letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Illinois Democrat pointed<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2026\/04\/17\/markus-ghislaine-maxwell-lawyer-pardon-00871508\" target=\"_blank\">a recent POLITICO story<\/a> where Maxwell&#8217;s attorney, David Oscar Markus, said there was &#8220;a good chance and for good reason that [Maxwell] would get a pardon&#8221; from President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence for her role in the sex trafficking scheme. The Supreme Court recently denied a bid to review her case, leaving presidential clemency the only obvious reprieve that could be available to her. Trump has not ruled out granting her clemency.<\/p>\n<p>As Blue Light News reported earlier this month, Markus said in an extensive interview he had reached out to Blanche last year to set up a meeting for his client to answer questions about the Epstein case. They met in Tallahassee for a two-day meeting in July, and Maxwell was moved to a minimum security prison camp in Texas shortly afterward. Blanche and Markus have both maintained that she was transferred because she was unsafe at her former facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unacceptable that DOJ would be engaging at all with such an outrageous request,\u201d Krishnamoorthi wrote to Blanche, who has known Markus for years.<\/p>\n<p>Krishnamoorthi asked Blanche to promise he would not engage with the convicted sex offender around a pardon and requested to view communications with Maxwell or Markus related to a pardon.<\/p>\n<p>DOJ did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi wants answers from the Justice Department about internal communications regarding a possible pardon for Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell. In a letter sent Wednesday to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Illinois Democrat pointed to a recent Blue Light News story where Maxwell&#8217;s attorney, David Oscar Markus, said there was &#8220;a good chance and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21719","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=21719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}