CNN shamelessly tries to get dirt from Ghislaine Maxwells attorney, shocked when he tells the truth

The attorney representing Ghislaine Maxwell claims he doesn’t know why she was transferred to a lower security prison.

While speaking to a CNN Newsnight panel on Monday, Arthur Aidala revealed that he doesn’t know the exact details surrounding his client’s transfer, which took place about a week after Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche interviewed her in prison. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted in 2021 of conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse children.

Host Abby Phillip pressed the celebrity lawyer on the “unusual” decision from the Department of Justice, but Aidala wasn’t able to provide any smoking gun.

“Arthur, the deputy attorney general, met with Ghislaine and then she shortly thereafter moved to a cushier prison. Why?” she asked.

“Well, there are things I’m not, you know, I’m not allowed to talk about, right?” he warned, alluding to attorney-client privilege. “So, there are things I can’t talk about.”

However, he did venture to speak in “generalities” and implied some sort of “quid pro quo” that may or may not have taken place as the result of information that Maxwell (or any client) may or may not have given up.

“When anybody who’s represented by a lawyer who knows what they’re doing goes in and meets with the government, there’s always a quid pro quo,” he stated. “You don’t just take your client in and say, ‘Let me talk to you about something.’ They wanted information from hypothetically, anytime the government wants information from a citizen, the citizen says, ‘Well, I have a right to remain silent. If you want me to give up that right, I need something in return.’ Usually, it’s a plea bargain. Usually, your charges are going to be lowered and your exposure–”

Former Biden-era White House official Neera Tanden barked out a laugh at this point, drawing Aidala’s attention.

“Why you laughing? I’ve done that for 35 years!” he exclaimed.

“Because you just admitted to a quid pro quo,” Tanden said, believing she had a ‘gotcha’ moment.

“But that’s how the whole system works! The whole system works on quid pro quo,” he noted.

“Would this have happened before or after the interview?” Phillip broke in, trying to establish a timeline. “Would they have said to her, ‘We’re gonna do this interview, and in exchange for it, you’re going to go to this other prison’?”

“The truth is, Abby, I mean, I don’t know. I don’t know the answer to that. I don’t know the answer to that question. I don’t have knowledge of when that decision was made, but usually, for me, because I did not walk Ghislaine into that particular proceeding,” Aidala admitted.

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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to BizPac Review.

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