Disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's longtime accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has gotten a sweetheart upgrade in prison in return for an interview with the Justice Department in which she distanced President Donald Trump from Epstein's crimes. But living it up in a luxury Texas prison camp likely isn't enough for her, Miami Herald reporter Julie Brown told MS NOW's Ali Velshi on Friday — she wants an outright pardon.

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"Julie, let's talk about Ghislaine Maxwell, because there's a lot of headlines about her," said Velshi. "There's a lot of machination on her part to get commutation of her sentence. Nobody in the administration has said that's a nonstarter. But this is a convicted sex offender who already, as a result of a very unorthodox interview with the deputy attorney general, seems to have been getting preferential treatment."

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"Well, I think that she's aiming for a pardon," agreed Brown. "I think that she has — I think she knows a lot of information. She obviously knows who was involved with Epstein, who helped Epstein. She really can provide a key for exactly how it operated. But of course, during her trial and even after, she's claimed she didn't know anything, she had no information."

"So I personally suspect that she's going to start — if she doesn't seem like she's going to get a pardon, I think she's going to, if she hasn't already started, leaking information in order to send a message to some of these important people that she knows where the skeletons are," said Brown. "And I just think that she's just waiting and wondering what's going to come out before she starts really moving forward with a pardon or a commutation of her sentence."

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