Ghislaine Maxwell, the affiliate of Jeffrey Epstein who’s at the moment serving a 20-year jail sentence for sex-trafficking crimes, has been transferred from a federal jail in Florida, to a lower-security facility in Texas, the US Bureau of Prisons stated on Friday.
“We will verify, Ghislaine Maxwell is within the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on the Federal Jail Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas,” a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons stated in a press release.
Maxwell’s legal professional, David Oscar Markus, additionally confirmed the switch however declined additional remark. FPC Bryan is described as a “minimal safety federal jail camp” that homes 635 feminine inmates.
In keeping with the Bureau of Prisons’ inmate locator, the Texas facility can also be dwelling to Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced former CEO of the California-based blood-testing firm Theranos, who’s serving a prolonged sentence for fraud. Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis TV star Jen Shah can also be serving time there for fraud.
Maxwell’s transfer from FCI Tallahassee, a low-security jail, to the federal jail camp in Bryan comes roughly every week after she was interviewed in Florida over two days concerning the Epstein case by the deputy US legal professional common, Todd Blanche, who can also be one among Donald Trump’s former attorneys.
Blanche had stated that he needed to talk with Maxwell – who was sentenced in 2022 for intercourse trafficking and different associated crimes – to see if she may need “details about anybody who has dedicated crimes in opposition to victims”.
Particulars of that assembly haven’t been made public however Maxwell’s lawyer described it as “very productive”, including that Maxwell answered the questions “actually, in truth, to the most effective of her capacity”.
The interview occurred amid rising political and public strain on the Trump administration to launch extra federal paperwork associated to the Epstein case – a case which has, for years, been the topic of numerous conspiracy theories.
Earlier in July, the justice division drew bipartisan criticism and backlash after saying that it could not be releasing any extra paperwork from the investigation into the late Epstein, who died in jail in New York in 2019 whereas awaiting federal trial. This was regardless of earlier pledges to launch extra recordsdata, by the US president and the US legal professional common, Pam Bondi.
Final week, the Home of Representatives committee on oversight and authorities reform subpoenaed Maxwell to testify by way of deposition later this month. In response, Maxwell’s lawyer despatched a letter to lawmakers this week stating that Maxwell was prepared to testify however provided that sure situations are met, together with being granted immunity. In that very same letter, Maxwell additionally made a plea for clemency.
However on Friday, the Home indefinitely postponed that deposition.
In the meantime, Maxwell has petitioned the US supreme courtroom to overturn her conviction.
