WashingtonAs Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal case garners more public attention, his ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, was 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. David Oscar Markus, her lawyer, acknowledged the relocation as well but would not comment on its causes.
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Maxwell received a 20-year prison sentence after being found guilty in 2021 of enticing underage females to be sexually assaulted by the disgraced businessman. Prior to her transfer to the Texas prison camp, where other detainees include Jennifer Shah of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Therano, 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.
Although prosecutors claim that Epstein’s sex offenses would not have been possible without Maxwell, her attorneys have insisted that she was unfairly charged and denied a fair trial and have suggested that President Donald Trump pardon her. Additionally, they have requested that her case be heard by the US Supreme Court.
On Friday night, Trump claimed that no one had questioned him about Maxwell’s clemency.
In a Friday night interview with Newsmax, he stated, “I’m allowed to do it, but no one has asked me to do it.” “I have no knowledge of that. Although I have no knowledge of the case, I am aware that I am legally permitted to do so. I have the authority to pardon people, and I have done so in the past, but no one has ever requested me to.
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 increased public attention to Maxwell’s case. The ruling angered conspiracy theorists, internet detectives, and Trump supporters who were hoping for evidence of a government cover-up.
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.
Meanwhile, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche spent two days last week interviewing Maxwell in a courthouse in Florida, and the House Oversight Committee also expressed interest in speaking with Maxwell. This week, her attorneys stated that they would be amenable to an interview, provided that the panel guaranteed her immunity from prosecution.
Trump claimed in the Newsmax interview that he was unsure of when Blanche will reveal to the public the topics he and Maxwell covered in the interviews.
Trump stated, “I believe he just wants to ensure that innocent people are not harmed, but you would have to talk to him about it.”
The committee was willing to postpone the deposition until after Maxwell’s appeal to the Supreme Court was resolved, according to a letter sent Friday to Maxwell’s attorneys by committee chair Rep. James Comer. Late September is when that appeal is anticipated to be decided.
Although Maxwell’s testimony was essential to the Republican-led probe into Epstein, Comer noted that the committee refused to grant her immunity or ask any questions before her hearing, despite her team’s request.
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This article was written by Darlene Superville, Matt Brown, and Michael Balsamo of the Associated Press.
