Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer says prison workers fired for leaking client's emails to Rep Jamie Raskin

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer said Friday that federal prison workers were fired for allegedly leaking her client's emails to Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin.

Maxwell, associate of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who is serving her 20-year prison sentence for grooming and sexually abusing young women, wrote emails that were leaked about the improved conditions at her current prison in Texas, after being moved from another prison in Florida, the New York Post reported.

Maxwell's attorney, Leah Saffian, criticized Raskin, the House Judiciary Committee ranking member, for the alleged publication of her client's emails.

“The congressman is a ranking member of the House Oversight [sic] 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 added. “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.”

NBC News published the emails on Saturday.

On Monday, Raskin sent a letter to President Trump, claiming a whistleblower had told him that Maxwell was “preparing a ‘Commutation Application’ for your Administration to review, undoubtedly coming to you for your direct consideration.”

Saffian said that Maxwell “has not requested a commutation — or a made a pardon — application to the second Trump administration.”

However, she said that Maxwell would soon file a petition in Manhattan federal court challenging her detention based on “new evidence” that would purportedly “have had a material impact” on the outcome of her criminal trial.

The leaked emails are “just the latest example of Ms. Maxwell’s constitutional and human rights being ridden roughshod over,” Saffian said, adding that the Justice Department’s internal watchdog described the Florida prison as “filled with black mold, with inmate contaminated with rodent droppings and infested with insects.”

A spokeswoman for House Judiciary Committee Democrats told the Post that the fired prison workers were “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,” the spokeswoman said, adding that “there was no sharing of privileged information” with the media.

“Judiciary Democrats will continue to demand answers and expose the truth as we get to the bottom of the effort to cover up this Administration’s obscene coddling of a convicted sexual trafficker and abuser.”