Paige Mazzoni, the CEO of service dog training organization Canine Companions, who partners with prisons to give well-behaved inmates something to do in the joint by fostering and training the animals, tells NBC News that as a convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell is banned from going anywhere near the puppies destined to be paired with disabled folks.
“We do not allow anyone whose crime involves abuse towards minors or animals – including any crime of a sexual nature. That’s a hard policy, so she will not be able to. Those are crimes against the vulnerable, and you’re putting them with a puppy who is vulnerable,” said Mazzoni.
For those keeping score at home, as a violent sexual offender, Ghislaine Maxwell had been prohibited from doing her time in a facility for white collar convicts. Until she wasn’t because that proscription was waived by the Trump Administration in exchange for her silence and a pardon will in all likelihood be forthcoming no later than January 20th, 2029. Yet the organization that brings puppies to prisons to be trained as service animals held firm on their similarly longstanding policy.
Kind of brings the whole blatant quid pro quo with a sex trafficker thing into perspective, doesn’t it?