Dem Rep Raskin Responds After Accusation of Using Illegally Leaked Emails to Attack Trump [WATCH]

Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland is facing questions after Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney said federal prison employees were fired for accessing and leaking confidential attorney-client emails that were then routed to Raskin and released to the media.

Maxwell’s attorney, Leah Saffian, confirmed the terminations and said the messages were improperly pulled from Maxwell’s privileged communications system at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas.

According to Saffian, the sequence of events involved multiple violations of federal procedure. She said prison employees at FPC Bryan accessed Maxwell’s email system, took privileged attorney communications, and provided them to a federal official. Saffian identified that official as Raskin.

She said Raskin later released the emails publicly under what she described as a false claim of “whistleblower” disclosure.

Court filings reviewed by multiple outlets have previously noted concerns about improper access to Maxwell’s attorney-client emails, but Saffian’s statements on Friday marked the first time her legal team directly linked the activity to disciplinary action against federal employees.

She also challenged claims that Maxwell had been attempting to secure clemency.

According to Saffian, Maxwell “has never sought a pardon” and has not asked President Donald Trump or any other official to intervene in her case.

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She said Maxwell’s filings relate to allegations of misconduct, not to any request for leniency.

Raskin has previously raised questions in Congress about how federal resources were used in relation to the Epstein and Maxwell cases.

As ABC News noted, he earlier accused the Trump administration of allowing “a corrupt misuse of law-enforcement resources.”

He called for Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche to testify before the House Judiciary Committee to “answer for this corrupt misuse of law enforcement resources and potential exchange of favors for false testimony exonerating you and other Epstein accomplices.”

Following the new claims from Maxwell’s attorney, Raskin addressed the issue in an appearance on MSNBC on Friday.

In the interview, he said the allegations were unclear and questioned how details about personnel actions involving Bureau of Prisons employees could have been obtained.

“This is very strange to me, that there are employees who’ve been fired because of what they’ve done. I’m curious how they would know that,” Raskin said.

“Uh, that sounds like a breach of whatever employee’s personnel records are… The allegation appears to be that her attorney-client privilege was somehow compromised in the TruLink system.”

Raskin also said his office would not discuss the origins of the material it received.

“We’re not saying where we got any information that we received. And it may not even be from the people that she’s talking about,” he said.

Raskin responds: “This is very strange to me, that there are employees who’ve been fired because of what they’ve done. I’m curious how they would know that.”

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Prison officials have not publicly commented on the reported terminations.

The Bureau of Prisons has previously said it does not disclose personnel matters, and the Office of the Inspector General has not released findings on the alleged breaches.

Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year federal sentence following her 2021 conviction on charges related to the sexual exploitation and trafficking of minors.

Her legal team has continued to pursue filings alleging procedural violations and misconduct in her case, while maintaining that she has not sought clemency from any administration.

Further inquiries into the handling of the leaked emails and the reported disciplinary actions at FPC Bryan remain ongoing.