Former assistant United States Attorney Elie Honig said prosecutors often seek out convicted criminals to help catch additional suspects in a big criminal case, even one like the scandal currently embroiling convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump......

“But what’s so unusual here is the federal criminal defendant is Ghislane Maxwell and the prosecutor is Deputy AG Todd Blanche, the No. 2 member of the Justice Department,” Honig said, adding that many prosecutors would blanch at the idea of resorting to witness testimony from someone like Maxwell.

“It’s highly unlikely the DOJ signs on with Maxwell as a cooperator,” he said. “They have to be fully convinced she has come fully clean on everybody and everything. She’s shown no indication of any willingness to do that at any point over her life. And secondly, the DOJ has to be willing to base indictments on her testimony, to go to a judge and say ‘we vouch for this person and we want you to give her a reduced sentence.”

“I think all of that is extremely remote,” he said.