Overview

• The Justice Department published full audio and lightly redacted transcripts from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s two-day July interview with Ghislaine Maxwell under a limited-immunity proffer.
• In the transcript, Maxwell says she never saw President Trump or other prominent men behave inappropriately, asserts no “client list” exists, and states she does not believe Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide.
• DOJ delivered a first tranche—thousands of pages—of Epstein investigation records to the House Oversight Committee, which plans to review them for victim redactions before any public release.
• The disclosures follow three federal rulings denying DOJ requests to unseal grand-jury materials, with Judge Richard Berman calling the government’s motion a “diversion” from its larger trove of files.
• Blanche, who previously represented Trump, led the questioning, and Maxwell’s interview and transfer to a Texas prison camp have intensified scrutiny of motives and process around the disclosures.