{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.reed.senate.gov/news/releases/the-dog-that-hasnt-barked-newly-released-epstein-emails-may-explain-convicted-sex-offender-ghislaine-maxwells-prison-perks", "The \u201cdog that hasn\u2019t barked\u201d: Newly Released Epstein Emails May Explain Convicted Sex Offender Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s Prison Perks", "2025-11-12", "2025", "2025-11", "Democrat", "Senate", "RI", "Jack Reed", "R000122", "www.reed.senate.gov", "jackreed", "https://www.reed.senate.gov/news/releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 On April 2, 2011, long before Donald Trump ran for president, Jeffrey Epstein sent an email to Ghislaine Maxwell that allegedly read: \"I want you to realize that that dog that hasn\u2019t barked is trump.. Virginia [sic] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. Police chief. etc. im 75 % there\".\n\nMs. Maxwell replied several hours later: \u201cI have been thinking about that\u2026\u201d\n\nFourteen years later, and just a few years into her 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking, Ghislaine Maxwell is now in a cushy federal prison camp, where news reports indicate she has recently been granted a puppy to play with \u2013 part of the preferential treatment she is now mysteriously receiving, apparently thanks to the \u2018dog that hasn\u2019t barked.\u2019\n\nEpstein and Maxwell were friends of Donald Trump\u2019s in the 1990s and 2000s. Ms. Maxwell is seeking a pardon or commutation from President Trump and he refuses to rule one out for her.\n\nMaxwell was suspiciously transferred from a Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee, Florida, to Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas in August \u2013 just days after extensive meetings with President Trump\u2019s Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who previously represented Trump as his personal lawyer. Ms. Maxwell seemingly has been granted all sorts of unexplained prison perks.\n\nAnd the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has yet to explain the highly controversial move, despite U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) requesting detailed answers in an August letter to the head of BOP and a follow-up letter sent late last month.\n\nSenator Reed says the 2011 emails released today by the House Oversight Committee may shed crucial light on the situation. Reed stated:\n\n\u201cThe Epstein files should be released because the American people deserve to know the truth and President Trump\u2019s actions surrounding this case simply don\u2019t add up.\n\n\u201cI am still pressing BOP for answers about Ms. Maxwell\u2019s highly unusual prison transfer and preferential treatment. In light of these new emails, it heightens concern about potential witness tampering. There are serious questions about whether President Trump, through his lawyer, and Ms. Maxwell are together concealing damning information.\n\n\u201cIf Donald Trump knew his friends were engaged in child sex trafficking and said nothing then he himself is guilty of a heinous crime.\n\n\u201cSpeaker Johnson has kept the House of Representatives in recess for the last 54 days. And for seven weeks, he refused to seat a duly elected member of the House in order to block bipartisan legislation to force the release of the Epstein files. Whether the evidence implicates princes or presidents, it\u2019s time that the American people get the facts.\u201d\n\nJeffrey Epstein died by suicide in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.reed.senate.gov/news/releases/the-dog-that-hasnt-barked-newly-released-epstein-emails-may-explain-convicted-sex-offender-ghislaine-maxwells-prison-perks"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8456767536699772, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}