Attorney General Pam Bondi is weighing whether to release an audio recording of the interviews her deputy conducted with Ghislaine Maxwell last month.
The Justice Department recorded its more than nine-hour sit-down with the convicted child sex trafficker, CNN reported.
Amid pressure to be more transparent about the Jeffrey Epstein case, President Donald Trump’s administration is considering if the recordings should be made public.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche went down to Florida last month to spend two days questioning Maxwell about what she knows in regards to Epstein’s horrific crimes.
Maxwell, 63, is currently serving out a 20-year sentence for crimes related to sex trafficking conspiracy and enticing and transporting minors to engage in illegal sexual acts.
Just days after the sit-downs with Blanche, Maxwell was transferred from the low-security Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee, Florida, to the minimum-security all-women’s Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas.
In her cooperation with federal authorities, the Epstein associate appears to be angling for a pardon from President Donald Trump.
Her attorney David Oscar Markus said after the second day of questioning concluded that they had not put in a formal request with the White House for a pardon.
But he didn’t rule out taking that action in the future, saying ‘things are happening so quickly.’
‘The president said earlier he has the power to do so, we hope he exercises that power in the right way,’ he said of a potential commutation.
Markus also said his client ‘didn’t hold back’ during questioning from the Justice Department, that’s now revealed to be on tape.
He said Maxwell spoke with Blanche about ‘100 different people’ related to Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring.
‘They asked about every possible thing you could imagine – everything,’ Markus claimed.
He also said Maxwell is being used as the ‘scapegoat’ in the entire Epstein case and has been ‘treated unfairly for the last five years.’