Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice, will take advantage of his right not to testify in the US Congress to avoid “spectacles”

This has been confirmed by Maxwell’s legal team, which foresees take advantage of the Fifth Amendment during his appearance before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the US House of Representatives, the body’s main investigative committee.

Maxwell will attend by videoconference from a Texas state penitentiary after being transferred from a federal prison in Florida.

The committee, controlled by Republicans, investigates Epstein’s connections with public figures and how information about his crimes was managed, especially after the publication on January 30 of new government files related to the pedophile and affecting political and business leaders around the world.

The president of the commission, the Republican James Comer, has insisted that it is “necessary” to listen to Maxwell’s testimony. For his part, Democrat Ro Khanna has stated that Maxwell could “assert this privilege in a general way by reading a prepared statement at the beginning of the appearance and refusing to allow the members of the commission to question her individually through her lawyer, instead of invoking the Fifth Amendment question by question.”

However, everything indicates that Maxwell will exercise his right not to answer any of the questions.

“Political spectacle”

In fact, it must be remembered that his lawyers asked Congress to grant him immunity to be able to testify, but the congressmen rejected it. Without that protection, her legal team has already made it clear that her client will invoke her right not to incriminate herself.

“Proceeding in these circumstances would serve no purpose other than a pure political spectacle”his lawyers said in a letter.

Democrats continue to accuse the Justice Department of diverting its own investigation into Maxwell and not even directing it against Donald Trump, who appears several times in the reports that have come to light.

Congress recently released files that include thousands of pages of the case in an attempt at transparency by the Trump Administration, although the measure did not work because most of them had already been made public previously.

Epstein was arrested on charges of sexual abuse and trafficking of dozens of children at the beginning of the 2000s. The billionaire came to rub shoulders at some point with personalities such as Prince Andrew of England – brother of Charles III -, Bill Clinton or the current president Donald Trump.

The New York financier was convicted in 2008 of soliciting a minor for prostitution and 11 years later he was found dead in prison, while awaiting trial for sexual exploitation of women, including minors.