Washington As her criminal case garners additional public attention, Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred from a federal jail in Florida to a prison camp in Texas.
Maxwell’s relocation to Bryan, Texas, was announced by the federal Bureau of Prisons on Friday, but no explanation was provided. Although he acknowledged the move, her lawyer would not explain why.
In 2021, Maxwell was found guilty of assisting Epstein in the sexual abuse of minors and received a 20-year prison sentence. Prior to her transfer to the Texas prison camp, where other detainees include Jen Shah of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” and Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, she had been detained at a low-security facility in Tallahassee, Florida.
minimal level of security Inmates deemed the least dangerous by the Bureau of Prisons are housed in federal prison camps. Some people have no fences at all.
In order to facilitate operations and enable prisoners assigned to prison tasks, like as maintenance and landscaping, to avoid constantly checking in and out of a main jail facility, the prison camps were first built with low security.
Since the Justice Department said last month that it will not be disclosing any more documents from the Epstein sex trafficking investigation, there has been a surge in public interest in Maxwell’s case.
Administration representatives have since attempted to portray themselves as advocating for openness in the case, even going so far as to ask judges to unseal grand jury transcripts.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche spent two days last week interviewing Maxwell at a courthouse in Florida.
Separately, the House Oversight Committee stated that it would like to talk to Maxwell. This week, her attorneys stated that she would be amenable to an interview, provided the panel granted her protection from prosecution for whatever remarks she made.
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