Overview

• Todd Blanche, the Justice Department’s No. 2, questioned Maxwell for six hours at the Tallahassee federal courthouse.
• Maxwell’s lawyer said she answered every question honestly and will meet with Blanche again this week.
• The department is pressing Maxwell for any information on additional accomplices in Epstein’s sex trafficking network.
• President Trump faces criticism from his own base and from Congress for blocking the release of more Epstein-related records despite a DOJ-FBI memo finding no secret client list.
• Legal experts caution that any new testimony from Maxwell must be corroborated before it can be deemed reliable.