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Speaker 1: Crime Alaric hourly update Breaking crime News Now. I'm Nicole Parton.

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Speaker 1: De Lane Maxwell is reportedly planning to request a reduction

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Speaker 1: of her prison sentence or pardon from President Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: as indicated by various news outlets. The sixty three year

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Speaker 1: old former British socialite, who has been embroiled in controversy

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Speaker 1: as currently serving a twenty year federal sentence for her

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Speaker 1: involvement in the sex trafficking of underage girls alongside Jeffrey Epstein.

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Speaker 1: On November ten, Democrats from the House Judiciary Committee sent

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Speaker 1: a letter to President Trump highlighting that Maxwell intends to

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Speaker 1: submit a commutation request for his administration's consideration, according to

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Speaker 1: reports from NBC News, NBC referenced a whistleblower, while CBS

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Speaker 1: cited a letter acquired by the Judiciary Committee's Democrats. According

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Speaker 1: to CBS, this letter suggests that information has surfaced indicating

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Speaker 1: either that Maxwell is actively seeking a release from her

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Speaker 1: twenty year sentence for her participation in Epstein's international child

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Speaker 1: sex trafficking operation, or that she welds significant influence within

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Speaker 1: the second President Trump administration, prompting the DOJ to heed

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Speaker 1: her clemency request. When recently asked about the pardon for Maxwell,

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Speaker 1: President Trump had this to say, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, I haven't heard the name in so long. I

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Speaker 2: can say this that I'd have to take a look

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Speaker 2: at it. I would have to take a look. Did

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Speaker 2: they reject that. I say, well, I'll take a look

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Speaker 2: at it. I'll speak to it. I will speak to

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Speaker 2: the DJ. I wouldn't consider it or not considered. I

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Speaker 2: don't know anything about it, so but I'll speak. I

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Speaker 2: will speak to the d I don't know. I mean,

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Speaker 2: i'd have to speak to the DJ. I'll look at it.

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Speaker 2: I'll I have a lot of people have asked me

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Speaker 2: for pardons. I call a buff daddy, hissp for a pardon. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm going to have to take a look

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Speaker 2: at it, and I have to ask DJ. I didn't

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Speaker 2: know they rejected it. I didn't know she was even

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Speaker 2: asking for it.

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Speaker 1: Frankly, a source close to Maxwell told people dot Com

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Speaker 1: that quote, no nobody knows what the president will do.

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Speaker 1: President Trump's passed social ties with Epstein, whose flight logs

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Speaker 1: included Trump's name and were made public by the Attorney

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Speaker 1: General in February. At a layer of complexity to the situation,

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Speaker 1: the House Democrats. Letter also alleges that Maxwell is receiving

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Speaker 1: concierge style treatment at the minimum security federal prison camp

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Speaker 1: in Brian, Texas, where she was transferred in July. The

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Speaker 1: Bureau of Prisons describes f PC Bran as a facility

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Speaker 1: offering dormitory housing, a relatively low staff to inmate ratio,

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Speaker 1: and limited or no perimeter fencing, in contrast to the

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Speaker 1: double fenced perimeters at FCI Tallahassee, her previous location. At

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Speaker 1: that time, a representative from the Bureau of Prisons did

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Speaker 1: not disclose the reason for her transfer. In a statement,

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Speaker 1: Attorney Sigrid McAuley, who has represented Epstein's accusers, including Virginia Gouffrey,

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Speaker 1: express concerns, stating, the news of Gallainne Maxwell seeking a

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Speaker 1: modification to her prison sentence is deeply disturbing and offensive

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Speaker 1: to the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Gallaine Maxwell. It

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Speaker 1: would be a grave miscarriage of justice to grant any

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Speaker 1: leniency to Maxwell, a convicted sex offender of young girls.

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Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this. In other news,

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Speaker 1: President Trump did grant pardons to Rudy Giuliani and several

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Speaker 1: others who backed his attempts to contest the outcome of

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty presidential election. In a proclamation issued on

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Speaker 1: November seven, the seventy nine year old president announced he

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Speaker 1: had provided a full, complete and unconditional pardon to Giuliani

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Speaker 1: and over seventy other people for their support following his

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Speaker 1: defeat to former President Joe Biden. Trump has consistently claimed

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Speaker 1: that the election was fraudulent, despite the lack of supporting evidence,

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Speaker 1: while officials nationwide dismissed his allegations in November twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: The proclamation was posted on x by Ed Martin, a

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Speaker 1: member of the US Department of Justice, on November ten.

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Speaker 1: It stated, in part I, Donald J. Trump hereby grant

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Speaker 1: a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all United States

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Speaker 1: citizens for actions related to the advance creation, organization, execution submission, support,

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Speaker 1: voting participation in, or advocacy for any proposed slate of

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Speaker 1: presidential electors recognized or not by any state or state

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Speaker 1: official in connection with the twenty twenty presidential election, as

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Speaker 1: well as for any actions taken to reveal voting fraud

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Speaker 1: or vulnerabilities associated with the election. Included among those pardoned

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Speaker 1: in this extensive move the attorney Sidney Powell, who was

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Speaker 1: once part of Trump's legal team, lawyer John Eastman, who

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Speaker 1: provided council during and after the election, and Mark Meadows,

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Speaker 1: president Trump's former chief of staff. Notably, the proclamation specified

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Speaker 1: that it does not apply to President Trump himself. In

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, the President faced indictment of charges of

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Speaker 1: election interference. However, a January twenty five report from the

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Speaker 1: Justice Department indicated he would not be held accountable for

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Speaker 1: his actions as he had won the twenty twenty four election. Giuliani,

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Speaker 1: who served as President Trump's lawyer and was the former

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Speaker 1: mayor of New York City, was disbarred in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four due to his extensive efforts to

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Speaker 1: overturn the election, and he also faced disbarment in New York.

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Speaker 1: In December twenty three, a judge determined that Giuliani owed

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Speaker 1: nearly one hundred fifty million to two Georgia poll workers

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Speaker 1: for defamation regarding the election. By the following October, he

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Speaker 1: was compelled to relinquish his Manhattan penthouse and other assets

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Speaker 1: due to his inability to settle the debt, which has

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Speaker 1: now been taken care of and now to Maryland, where

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Speaker 1: police in Baltimore County are searching for a missing team

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Speaker 1: Heaven Davis, sixteen years old, described as five seven weighing

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty pounds. She was last seen in

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Speaker 1: the Townshend area wearing a black Champion sweatshirt, olive gray pants,

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Speaker 1: white Nike shoes, and cheetahprint glasses. Anyone with information on

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Speaker 1: Heaven Davis's whereabouts is asked to dial nine to one

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Speaker 1: one or call police at for one zero eight eight

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