Ghislaine Maxwell quietly moved to Texas minimum security prison after Trump DOJ meeting

Amid questions about clemency ahead of congressional testimony, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell procured a relatively cushy relocation.

(Video Credit: KHOU 11)

Earlier this week, through her attorney David Oscar Markus, the longtime associate and once girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein had made clear her demands to agree to congressional testimony regarding the late convicted sex offender. Now, as she continued to serve out her own 20-year prison sentence, it was confirmed that Maxwell had been moved to a minimum-security facility in Texas.

Before her transfer to Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Bryan, Texas, just north of College Station and roughly 100 miles outside of both Austin and Houston, the inmate had been held in Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Tallahassee, a low-security prison, in Florida. The move comes one week after she met with Department of Justice Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche

Regarding the transfer to the Lone Star State, prison reform advocate Holli Coulman told KHOU 11 that the manner in which the move had been conducted was itself unusual.

“Being transferred under the cover of darkness, in a Bureau of Prisons van, with no involvement from the U.S. Marshals — I’ve never seen anything like it,” she expressed. “This level of control over the transfer suggests someone wanted it kept quiet.”

Maxwell’s relocation to the facility that included other high-profile inmates like Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and Jen Shah of the “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” both convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, followed her list of demands to the House Oversight Committee in exchange for her not invoking her Fifth Amendment rights.

As had been reported, the sex trafficker wanted either a clemency deal or to be provided all questions in advance, have her testimony delayed until after a ruling from the Supreme Court regarding her conviction appeal, and be granted immunity.

While Newsweek reported that the last demand had been rejected by the House Oversight Committee, Politico indicated that Congress had acquiesced to the second demand and that the planned testimony for August 11 would be put on hold to await the Supreme Court’s ruling.

Meanwhile, as The New York Sun reported on the details of Maxwell’s transfer, explaining that the Bureau of Prisons had temporarily moved the inmate to FCI Oakdale in Louisiana while en route to FPC Bryan, the cushy treatment earned the outrage of accusers and their families.

“It is with horror and outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has received,” began a statement about the transfer. “Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children on multiple occasions, and she should never be shown any leniency.”

“Yet, without any notification to the victims, the government overnight moved Maxwell to a minimum-security luxury prison in Texas. This is the justice system failing victims right before our eyes,” the statement added.

Staff Writer

Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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