Washington — Todd Blanche, the second highest-ranking Justice Department official, is meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell at the U.S. attorney’s office in Tallahassee on Thursday to discuss convicted sex officer Jeffrey Epstein, a source familiar with the plans confirmed to CBS News.
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence at a low-security federal correctional institute in Tallahassee after she was convicted in 2021 for her role in helping Jeffrey Epstein recruit, groom and abuse underage girls.
Blanche’s meeting comes after he said earlier this week that he planned to meet with Maxwell, an associate of Epstein’s, “in the coming days.”
“Justice demands courage. For the first time, the Department of Justice is reaching out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: what do you know?” Blanche wrote on social media Tuesday. He said he contacted Maxwell’s lawyers at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi. “I intend to meet with her soon. No one is above the law — and no lead is off-limits,” Blanche wrote.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
