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Jamie Raskin Dragged Into Legal Scandal After Getting Caught Leaking Epstein Emails
Workers at the Texas lockup holding Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell have been canned for leaking her chatty emails about life inside the cushy prison camp, and the Democrat who helped make them public should face consequences, her lawyer blasted Friday.
Attorney Leah Saffian ripped Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, for releasing Maxwell’s glowing descriptions of her stay at Federal Prison Camp Bryan. Maxwell even gushed about Warden Tanisha Hall for helping her send and receive paperwork tied to her failed Supreme Court appeal.
“The congressman is a ranking member of the House Oversight [actually Judiciary] Committee, an attorney and law professor. He must be aware that his conduct undermines the whole legal process,” Saffian said. “His action should be a matter for professional disciplinary action.”
“There have been appropriate consequences already for employees at Federal Prison Camp Bryan,” she continued. “They have been terminated for improper, unauthorized access to the email system used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons [BOP] to allow inmates to communicate with the outside world.”
“The provision of those emails to a federal official who then caused them to be shared with the media is a breach of constitutional protections including the First, Sixth and Fourteenth amendments afforded to all prisoners.”
Days later, Raskin fired off a letter to President Trump claiming a whistleblower had alerted him that Maxwell was “preparing a ‘Commutation Application’ for your Administration to review, undoubtedly coming to you for your direct consideration.”
Saffian flatly denied that in Friday’s statement, saying Maxwell — who is serving 20 years for her 2021 conviction on federal grooming and sex-abuse charges — “has not requested a commutation or made a pardon application to the second Trump administration.”
Instead, she said Maxwell plans to file a petition in Manhattan federal court arguing her detention is unlawful based on “new evidence” that would supposedly “have had a material impact” on her trial.
Maxwell’s lawyer also demanded that Raskin face disciplinary action.
The leaked emails showed Maxwell swooning over her current setup compared with the grim federal prison in Tallahassee, Fla., where she was previously housed.
“The kitchen looks clean too — no possums falling from the celling [sic] to fry unfortunately on ovens, and become mingled with the food being served,” she wrote in one note.
“The food is legions better, the place is clean, the staff responsive and polite — I haven’t seen or heard the usual foul language or screaming accompanied by threats leveled at inmates by anyone,” she wrote in an Aug. 8 message. “I have not seen a single fight, drug deal, passed out person or naked inmate running around or several of them congregating in a shower! … I am much much happier here and more importantly safe.”
Saffian argued the leaks were “just the latest example of Ms. Maxwell’s constitutional and human rights being ridden roughshod over,” pointing out that the Justice Department’s inspector general previously described the Tallahassee facility as “filled with black mold … with rodent droppings and infested with insects.”
A spokeswoman for House Judiciary Committee Democrats pushed back, telling The Post the fired workers were actually “whistleblowers” who wanted to expose Maxwell’s “preferential treatment.”
“Any effort by BOP to intimidate, silence, or retaliate against anyone, including inmates and staff with information on Ms. Maxwell’s outrageous preferential treatment, is unacceptable,” she said, insisting “there was no sharing of privileged information” with the media.
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