Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime affiliate of Jeffrey Epstein, was quietly transferred from a federal jail in Florida to a federal jail in Texas, based on a Bureau of Prisons official.
“Ghislaine Maxwell is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas,” BOP official Benjamin O’Cone confirmed Friday in an electronic mail to The Hill.
The transfer to Texas comes as Maxwell, who was convicted of intercourse trafficking and is serving a 20-year jail sentence, and her authorized crew are interesting her case to the Supreme Court docket in hopes of getting her conviction overturned.
Final week, the Home Oversight and Authorities Reform Committee subpoenaed Maxwell, asking for her testimony because the demand for President Trump’s administration to launch extra paperwork associated to Epstein’s case continues.
Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, mentioned her consumer would solely converse to the committee if granted immunity, one thing the panel rejected.
Markus additionally requested for the questions directed to Maxwell to be submitted prematurely and that any potential deposition be held after the nation’s highest court docket weighs in on her petition.
The Justice Division’s (DOJ) No. 2 official, Deputy Legal professional Normal Todd Blanche, spoke with Maxwell in Florida final week for greater than 9 hours over the course of two days.
The Trump administration has confronted a backlash after an early-July joint memo from the DOJ and FBI mentioned that Epstein, a convicted intercourse offender and disgraced financier, died by suicide in 2019 whereas awaiting trial in jail and that he didn’t hold a “client list.”
The information of Maxwell’s switch was first reported by The New York Solar.
Federal Jail Camp Bryan is a minimum-security jail for feminine inmates and can doubtless supply higher situations for Maxwell. The ability is situated round 95 miles northwest of Houston and may maintain as much as 635 inmates.
