The Epstein accomplice met with a top Justice Department official and answered "every single question," her lawyer said.

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -Even as an uproar over files relating to Jeffrey Epstein engulfs President Donald Trump and Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court is due to wade into the controversy and decide whether to hear a bid by an associate of the late financier and convicted sex offender to overturn her criminal conviction.

U.S. officials interview convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell while her legal team awaits a Supreme Court decision on her 20-year prison sentence appeal.

The comment came after Trump was asked if he was considering pardoning the associate of Jeffrey Epstein, who was convicted sex trafficking.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with her on Thursday in an attempt to quell a firestorm over the Trump administration’s backtracking on promises to release additional records from the Epstein investigation.

Although the meeting with the Department of Justice isn't occurring there, eyes are turning to the state capital's federal women's prison that houses Ghislaine Maxwell, former girlfriend to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and herself a convicted sex trafficker.

Jeffrey Epstein's associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, and a senior Justice Department official met Friday. Here's how to pronounce her first name correctly.

Experts say they're bewildered by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's decision to interview Ghislaine Maxwell.