DOJ to meet with Maxwell again in Tallahassee after she was seen with 'big box'

Ghislaine Maxwell returned to prison after speaking with attorneys from the Department of Justice with a box of unspecified materials on Thursday. The interview was the first she has ever done with the DOJ, and it is expected to continue on Friday.

Footage showed Maxwell—the former girlfriend of disgraced financier and child sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein—returning to the prison in Tallahassee, Florida, with a box of unspecified materials, where she is serving a 20-year sentence.

Speaking with Fox and Friends on Friday morning after Thursday's portion of the interview with Maxwell, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said that past reports that she was interviewed by state and federal authorities were not true, and that she may be an "untapped source of new information" in the Epstein case.

"I was surprised, in speaking with a member of the legal defense team a couple days ago, when they said that reports that she had been previously interviewed by federal and state prosecutors [and] investigators was not true. She has never been interviewed. Yes, and despite all of these past investigations in this scandal, I was really taken aback by that. So if that's true, she could be an untapped source of new information. The question is, what is that information? Is it just salacious or is it something more that would reveal criminal conduct?"

Turley laid out the scenarios of what the possibilities are with Maxwell if she can bring forward new information in the case to prosecute potential third parties or if she has revealed evidence to revisit her sentence.

On the part of her getting a reduced sentence, "based on new evidence," Turley said after the first portion of the interview, the DOJ hasn't "seen that."

He also said that there is a possibility of a commutation from President Donald Trump "if she is a highly cooperative witness" in the case.

This comes amid heightened interest in the Epstein files after the DOJ was revealed to have said that there was no incriminating "client list" that Epstein had, which would lead to third parties being prosecuted in the case connected to the disgraced financier. The memo also concluded that he killed himself in prison, despite the cause of his death being the subject of speculation for years.