{"id":66402,"date":"2026-02-15T09:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/maxwells-clemency-pitch-can-epstein-accomplice-talk-her-way-out-of-prison\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T09:13:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:13:02","slug":"maxwells-clemency-pitch-can-epstein-accomplice-talk-her-way-out-of-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/maxwells-clemency-pitch-can-epstein-accomplice-talk-her-way-out-of-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxwell\u2019s clemency pitch: can Epstein accomplice talk her way out of prison?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts question convicted sex trafficker\u2019s motivations as she claims she can reveal \u2018truth\u2019 in exchange for freedom<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ghislaine-maxwell\">Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a> refused to testify before Congress last week, she nonetheless insisted on her willingness to help.<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/jun\/28\/ghislaine-maxwell-sentencing-sex-trafficking-epstein\">convicted<\/a> of helping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> draw teenage girls into a world of sexual abuse, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/09\/ghislaine-maxwell-congress-deposition\">dangled the prospect<\/a> of revealing truth before Congress and American public \u2013 so long as she was freed from jail.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/15\/ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-clemency\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts question convicted sex trafficker\u2019s motivations as she claims she can reveal \u2018truth\u2019 in exchange for freedom When Ghislaine Maxwell refused to testify before Congress last week, she nonetheless insisted on her willingness to help. Maxwell, who was convicted of helping Jeffrey Epstein draw teenage girls into a world of sexual abuse, dangled the prospect &#8230; <a title=\"Maxwell\u2019s clemency pitch: can Epstein accomplice talk her way out of prison?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/maxwells-clemency-pitch-can-epstein-accomplice-talk-her-way-out-of-prison\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Maxwell\u2019s clemency pitch: can Epstein accomplice talk her way out of prison?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}