The Justice Department's No. 2 official met Thursday with Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The meeting in Florida, which Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said he worked to arrange, is part of an ongoing Justice Department effort to cast itself as transparent following fierce backlash from parts of President Donald Trump’s base over an earlier refusal to release additional records in the Epstein investigation. MORE: https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/justice-dept-official-meets-ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-former-girlfriend/507-1d42acfc-2756-4c2c-8507-b36b5596b321