Ghislaine Maxwell is expected to plead the fifth when she appears before a US Congress board investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes on Monday. Maxwell, 64, an accomplice of the late paedophile, will be questioned behind closed doors but is set to invoke her right to not answer questions. She is currently serving 20 years in prison for trafficking girls to sex offender financier Epstein and will face questions from prison via videolink, in a deposition by the House of Representatives’ Oversight Committee.
Though no new US prosecutions are expected after the latest release of government files on Epstein, numerous political and business leaders have fallen into scandal or resigned as their ties to the convicted sex criminal were revealed. The Republican-led House Oversight Committee is probing Epstein’s connections to powerful figures and how information about his crimes was handled. Maxwell is expected to invoke her right to not incriminate herself, guaranteed in the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution. Epstein was convicted in 2008 of soliciting a minor. His extensive ties to the world’s rich and powerful, especially after he was released in 2009, have become politically explosive across the globe.
