{"id":259633,"date":"2025-07-31T12:43:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=259633"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:43:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:43:32","slug":"ghislaine-maxwell-demands-immunity-before-testifying-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=259633","title":{"rendered":"Ghislaine Maxwell demands immunity before testifying to Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=ghislaine-maxwell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a> the convicted sex trafficker and associate of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=jeffrey-epstein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> says that she is willing to testify before Congress but only if certain conditions are met, including being granted immunity, according to a new letter sent to the House oversight committee by her lawyer on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=259629\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">The interest in this is not going away<\/a>; there\u2019s massive interest in it across the electorate, but especially among the Republican base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, the House committee on oversight and government&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/22\/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-subpoena\">subpoenaed Maxwell<\/a>, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence, to testify via deposition next month at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, where she is currently in custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in a new letter on Tuesday addressed to James Comer, a Republican who chairs the House committee, Maxwell\u2019s lawyer, David Markus, said that Maxwell was willing to testify but that testifying \u201cfrom prison and without a grant of immunity\u201d were \u201cnon-starters\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epstein associate and convicted sex trafficker\u2019s lawyer responds to subpoena from House panel with conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":259634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,2811],"tags":[17599,17600,11],"class_list":["post-259633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-politics","tag-ghislaine-maxwell","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259636,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259633\/revisions\/259636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/259634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}