Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, is transferred to a prison camp in Texas
WASHINGTON AP Jeffrey Epstein s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas as her criminal circumstance generates renewed community attention The federal Bureau of Prisons commented Friday that Maxwell had been transferred to Bryan Texas but did not explain the circumstances Her attorney David Oscar Markus also ratified the move but declined to discuss the reasons for it Maxwell was convicted in of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the disgraced financier and was sentenced to years in prison She had been held at a low-security prison in Tallahassee Florida until her transfer to the prison camp in Texas where other inmates include Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and Jen Shah of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Minimum-security federal prison camps house inmates the Bureau of Prisons considers to be the lowest safety danger Particular don t even have fences The prison camps were originally designed with low measure to make operations easier and to allow inmates tasked with performing work at the prison like landscaping and maintenance to avoid repeatedly checking in and out of a main prison facility Prosecutors have noted Epstein s sex crimes could not have been done without Maxwell but her lawyers have maintained that she was wrongly prosecuted and denied a fair trial and have floated the idea of a pardon from President Donald Trump They have also petitioned the U S Supreme Court to take up her scenario Maxwell s affair has been the subject of heightened masses focus since an outcry over the Justice Department s comment last month saying that it would not be releasing any additional documents from the Epstein sex trafficking assessment The decision infuriated online sleuths conspiracy theorists and elements of Trump s base who had hoped to see proof of a governing body cover-up Since then administration leaders have tried to cast themselves as promoting transparency in the matter including by requesting from courts the unsealing of grand jury transcripts Maxwell meanwhile was interviewed at a Florida courthouse over two days last week by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and the House Oversight Committee had also stated that it yearned to speak with Maxwell Her lawyers announced this week that they would be open to an interview but only if the panel were to ensure immunity from prosecution In a letter Friday to Maxwell s lawyers Rep James Comer the committee chair wrote that the committee was willing to delay the deposition until after the resolution of Maxwell s appeal to the Supreme Court That appeal is expected to be resolved in late September Comer wrote that while Maxwell s testimony was vital to the Republican-led analysis into Epstein the committee would not provide immunity or any questions in advance of her testimony as was requested by her gang Associated Press Writers Michael Balsamo and Matt Brown contributed to this summary Source
