Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator and confidant, was moved to a minimum-security federal jail camp in Texas, jail officers stated Friday.
Maxwell, who’s serving a 20-year jail sentence for her position in recruiting and trafficking minors for intercourse, was being held at a low-security facility in Tallahassee, Florida, that housed women and men.
The camp in Bryan, Texas, homes solely girls. A majority of its inmates are serving time for nonviolent offenses and white-collar crimes.
The transfer comes every week after Deputy Lawyer Normal Todd Blanche met with Maxwell and her lawyer, David Oscar Markus, for 9 hours over two days.
Blanche has made no public statements about what Maxwell stated or about subsequent steps within the present Justice Division investigation into Epstein, the financier and convicted intercourse offender who died by suicide in jail in 2019.
However the conferences got here amid public furor over a July 6 announcement from the DOJ and the FBI {that a} overview of the Epstein case had discovered, opposite to conspiracy theories, “no incriminating ‘shopper record'” and “no credible proof” that Epstein had been blackmailing well-known males, and that he did in truth kill himself.
That furor escalated when Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino didn’t report back to work earlier this month as he considered resigning over the department’s handling of the Epstein files.
The problem persevered main as much as Blanche’s assembly with Maxwell and Markus, and remains to be dogging President Donald Trump, a former buddy of each Epstein and Maxwell.
In a press release launched after the information of Maxwell’s being moved broke, the household of Epstein abuse survivor Virginia Giuffre, joined by Epstein and Maxwell accusers Annie and Maria Farmer, stated, “It’s with horror and outrage that we object to the preferential therapy convicted intercourse trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has obtained. Ghislaine Maxwell is a sexual predator who bodily assaulted minor kids on a number of events, and she or he ought to by no means be proven any leniency. But, with none notification to the Maxwell victims, the federal government in a single day has moved Maxwell to a minimal safety luxurious jail in Texas.”
The assertion went on to say, “The Trump administration mustn’t credit score a phrase Maxwell says, as the federal government itself sought prices towards Maxwell for being a serial liar. This transfer smacks of a canopy up. The victims deserve higher.”
Different well-known prisoners at Texas camp
Markus confirmed to NBC Information that Maxwell had been moved to a facility in Texas, however declined to remark additional.
Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is housed there after she was convicted of defrauding traders out of a whole lot of tens of millions of {dollars}. So is “Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis” star Jen Shah, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for working a telemarketing scheme that defrauded aged folks.
“We will affirm, Ghislaine Maxwell is within the custody of the Bureau of Prisons on the Federal Jail Camp Bryan in Bryan, Texas,” the bureau stated in a press release.
The Bureau of Prisons didn’t specify why she was transferred.
Lexi Rudolph and Hallie Jackson contributed.
