Ghislaine Maxwell received limited immunity during meetings with the Deputy Prosecutor General: Sources

Ghislaine Maxwell, who said that ABC News had initiated meetings with the Ministry of Justice, answered questions for about nine hours a day after obtaining a limited form of immunity, the sources said.

Immunity has enabled Maxwell to freely answer questions from the Prosecutor General Todd Blanche without fear that his answers could be used against her later, the sources said.

The so-called utmost immunity is commonly granted to individuals that prosecutors seek to make cooperators in a criminal case. Maxwell has already been tried, found guilty and convicted of the sexual traffic of minor girls.

The DoJ did not immediately respond to the request for comments. A Maxwell lawyer did not immediately respond.

The second meeting between Maxwell and Blanche lasted about three hours.

Maxwell’s lawyer David Markus told ABC News afterwards: “There was no request and no promise.”

Markus said Maxwell had been questioned “perhaps 100 different people” during his interview with the assistant prosecutor. He said she had answered each question.

“She didn’t remember anything,” said Markus.

He refused to be precise about who was questioned Maxwell or if she provided information on other people who could have committed crimes against the victims, because Blanche said he was looking for.

“We didn’t ask for anything. This is not a situation where we ask for anything in exchange for testimonies or something like that,” added Markus on Friday. “Of course, everyone knows that Ms. Maxwell will welcome any relief.”

Blanche did not speak to journalists when he arrived at the Palais de Justice Federal in Tallahassee, Florida. On social networks, Blanche said that he would reveal what he had learned from Maxwell “at the appropriate time”.

The first meeting between Maxwell and Blanche lasted six o’clock Thursday.

Maxwell currently uses his 20 -year prison sentence for children’s sex and other offenses related to Epstein, a deceased financial and sentenced sexual offender.

“We do not want to get into the substance of questions,” said Markus about Thursday’s meeting. “There were a lot of questions and we went all day and she answered each of them. She never said,” I’m not going to answer, “never refused.”

He is almost unknown for a sexual trafficker sentenced to meeting such a high -end official from the Ministry of Justice, in particular the one who was the best lawyer for the president’s criminal defense.

Friday, the chief correspondent of the ABC News, Mary Bruce, asked President Donald Trump if Clémence was on the table for Maxwell.

“I can’t talk about it now because you know, it’s a very sensitive interview in progress,” said Trump. He then called Blanche a “big lawyer” and said “I don’t know exactly what’s going on. But I certainly can’t talk about pardons.”

Trump was also in a hurry by Bruce from ABC News if he can trust what Maxwell said to the Doj during these interviews.

“Well, he’s a professional lawyer. He has already gone through things like that,” said Trump, referring to Blanche.

Friday, after Trump’s comments on Clémence, ABC News asked Maxwell’s lawyer if it had encouraged Blanche what he wanted to hear.

“No,” replied Markus. “She means the truth.”

Markus said Maxwell’s legal team had not approached Trump about forgiveness, but suggested that this could happen in the future.

“We have not yet talked to the president or anyone of forgiveness. And listen, the president this morning said that he had the power to do so so that we hope he exercises this power in good and right way,” he said.

Annie Farmer, who testified against Maxwell at the trial, asked why Maxwell had obtained a meeting with the general sub-procurer in the first place.

“It is very disappointing that these things happen in camera without any contribution from the people that the government has asked to come forward and to speak against it in order to store it,” said Farmer. “There were so many young girls and women who were injured by her.”

Maxwell’s lawyer said on Friday that she had been ill -treated in the past five years and was grateful to be able to meet Blanche when she calls her sentence for sex trafficking and seeks to leave prison.

“If you were looking for scapegoats in the dictionary, his photo would be next to the definition,” said Markus. “She keeps morale as best she can.”

The meetings of Blanche with Maxwell intervene while the Ministry of Justice tried to calm the calls of the Republicans of the Senate to disclose more information on Epstein and its interaction with large -scale figures.

And that arises as questions swirl on Trump’s connections with Epstein and reports that his name appeared in Epstein files.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump in May that his name had been mentioned in Epstein files several times, as well as other high -level people.

Trump denied this account, and appearing in the files is not necessarily indicative of any reprehensible act.

“I want all the information,” said Republican senator Josh Hawley.

“You just have to go out, to make it as transparent as possible,” said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.

The Ministry of Justice said earlier this month that it planned to disclose any additional information despite a prior commitment to do so.