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Ghislaine Maxwell shifted to lower-security prison in Texas as Trump govt faces backlash over Epstein files
Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of convicted sex offender and British financier Jeffrey Epstein, has been transferred from a federal prison in Florida to a lower-security facility in Texas. The news was confirmed by the US Bureau of Prisons on Friday. Maxwell has been serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking crimes.
'We can confirm, Ghislaine Maxwell is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas,' a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement. Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Markus, also confirmed the transfer but declined to share further details on the matter. It is pertinent to note that FPC Bryan is a 'minimum security federal prison camp' that houses 635 female inmates.
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Interestingly, according to the Bureau of Prisons' inmate locator, the facility in Texas is also home to Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced former CEO of the California-based blood-testing company Theranos. Holmes has been serving a life sentence for committing fraud. Not only this, the prison camp also houses Real Housewives of Salt Lake City TV star Jen Shah, who was jailed for committing fraud.
The timing of it all
Maxwell's move from FCI Tallahassee, a low-security prison, to the federal prison camp in Bryan came roughly a month after she was interviewed in Florida by the US attorney general, Todd Blanche, who is also one of Donald Trump's former lawyers. Maxwell was interviewed in two days about the Epstein case.
Meanwhile, Blanche has maintained that he wanted to speak with Maxwell, who was sentenced in 2022 for sex trafficking and other related crimes, to see if she has 'information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims'.
However, the details of the meeting have not been made public as of now. Maxwell's lawyer, on the other hand, described the meeting as ' very productive', adding that Maxwell answered the questions 'honestly, truthfully, to the best of her ability'.
It is pertinent to note that the interview is taking place amid growing political and public pressure on the Trump administration to release the infamous Epstein files. The backlash started in July after the Department of Justice and FBI released a joint memo announcing that they would not be releasing any more documents from the investigation into the late Epstein, who died in prison in New York in 2019 while awaiting federal trial.
The announcement came despite earlier pledges to release more files by the US president and the US attorney general, . Last week, the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform subpoenaed Maxwell to testify via deposition. In response to this, Maxwell's lawyer sent a letter this week, stating that she was willing to testify but only if certain conditions were met, including being granted immunity. In that same letter, Maxwell also made a plea for clemency.
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However, on Friday, the House indefinitely postponed that deposition. Amidst this, Maxwell has petitioned the US Supreme Court to overturn her conviction.
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