Ghislaine Maxwell, the close associate and convicted accomplice of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, intends to ask President Donald Trump to commute her prison sentence, according to a letter from Rep. Jamie Raskin, of Maryland.

Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, wrote in a letter to Trump that Maxwell is working on filing a commutation application, citing an unnamed whistleblower.

Raskin said the information signals Maxwell either wants to be released from her prison sentence or is making recommendations about other federal convicts to the Justice Department.

“The White House does not comment on potential clemency requests," Abigail Jackson, a spokeswoman for the White House told USA TODAY in a statement. "As President Trump has stated, pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell is not something he has thought about.”

Epstein and Maxwell were friends of Trump in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Maxwell was convicted in New York federal court in 2021 on five counts related to sex trafficking and sentenced to 20 years in prison. She is the only associate of Epstein to face prison time.

Epstein died in custody while awaiting trial in 2019.

In July, Maxwell sat for a lengthy interview with Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, one of Trump's former criminal defense attorneys, after which she was moved from a Florida prison to a lower-security facility in Texas. Raskin's letter alleges she is getting special treatment in the facility.

Raskin wrote that Maxwell is having custom-prepared meals delivered directly to her cell, that the warden made special accommodations for her to meet with visitors, and that she was allowed to have special time to play with a puppy, among other exceptions from standard prisoner treatment.

"Any inmate or staff who questions or blows the whistle on the institution’s grotesque pampering of a serial sexual abuser and human trafficker at taxpayer expense is being punished and retaliated against by (the prison warden)," Raskin wrote.

"This top-flight luxury service has reached such a point of absurdity that one of the top officials at the prison has complained that he is “sick of having to be Maxwell’s b----," he wrote.

Raskin asked in the letter that Blanche, the deputy attorney general who met with Maxwell in July, attend a public hearing with the House Judiciary Committee.

The White House and Maxwell's lawyer did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's request for comment.

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Reporting by Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY / USA TODAY

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