Epstein victims claim ‘cover up’ as Maxwell moved to low security prison

Epstein’s erstwhile woman and one-time British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving 20 years successful prison, moved to minimum information tract successful Texas.

Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice successful the maltreatment of underage girls by high-society enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been moved to a minimum information installation successful Texas, the United States Bureau of Prisons said, triggering an aggravated absorption from immoderate of the pair’s victims.

Maxwell, a erstwhile woman of Epstein, was moved from the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Tallahassee – a low-security situation successful Florida – to the minimum information Federal Prison Camp successful Bryan, Texas, the Bureau of Prisons said connected Friday.

“We tin corroborate Ghislaine Maxwell is successful the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons astatine the Federal Prison Camp [FPC] Bryan successful Bryan, Texas,” a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson said, without providing an mentation for the transfer.

Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, besides confirmed the determination but declined to sermon the reasons for the transfer.

Maxwell was convicted successful 2021 of luring teenage girls to beryllium sexually abused by Epstein – a one-time friend to the almighty and influential successful the US – and was sentenced to 20 years successful situation for her crimes.

Two women who said they were sexually abused by Epstein and Maxwell, and the household of different accuser who precocious took her ain life, condemned Maxwell’s astonishment situation transfer.

“It is with fearfulness and outrage that we entity to the preferential attraction convicted enactment trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has received,” Annie and Maria Farmer and the household of Virginia Giuffre said successful a statement.

“Without immoderate notification to the Maxwell victims, the authorities overnight has moved Maxwell to a minimum information luxury situation successful Texas,” the victims said.

“Ghislaine Maxwell is simply a intersexual predator who physically assaulted insignificant children connected aggregate occasions, and she should ne'er beryllium shown immoderate leniency,” they said.

“This determination smacks of a cover-up. The victims merit better,” they added.

‘Government cover-up successful existent time’

The Bryan situation campy successful Texas is simply a minimum information institution, the lowest of 5 information levels successful the US national situation system. Such facilities person constricted oregon nary perimeter fencing, whereas debased information facilities, specified arsenic FCI Tallahassee, person double-fenced perimeters and higher staff-to-inmate ratios than situation camps, according to the bureau.

Maxwell’s move comes aft Deputy US Attorney General Todd Blanche — President Donald Trump’s erstwhile idiosyncratic lawyer – interviewed Maxwell for 2 days astatine a Florida courthouse past week successful a highly antithetic gathering betwixt a convicted felon and a high-ranking Department of Justice official.

Blanche has declined truthful acold to accidental what was discussed, but Maxwell’s lawyer, Markus, said she answered each question she was asked.

Maxwell has reportedly offered to attest earlier Congress astir Epstein if fixed immunity and has besides reportedly been seeking a pardon from the US president, who was erstwhile a adjacent person of Epstein, who took his ain beingness successful situation successful 2019.

Tim Hogan, a elder Democratic National Committee adviser, denounced what helium alleged was a “government cover-up successful existent time”.

“Donald Trump’s FBI, tally by loyalist Kash Patel, redacted Trump’s sanction from the Epstein files – which person inactive not been released,” Hogan said.

“While Trump and his medication effort to screen up the heinous crimes included successful those files, they’re simultaneously doing favours for convicted enactment trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell,” Hogan said.

MAGA basal up successful arms

Trump has faced weeks of mounting demands from Democrats and galore of his conspiracy-minded supporters to beryllium much transparent astir the Epstein lawsuit aft the Justice Department said past period that it would not beryllium releasing immoderate further documents from the probe into the high-profile enactment trafficker.

Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) basal has besides been up successful arms since the FBI and Justice Department said precocious that Epstein had not blackmailed immoderate salient figures, and that helium did not support a “client list”.

Trump besides ignited further furore this week erstwhile helium told reporters helium fell retired with Epstein aft the enactment offender “stole” pistillate employees from a spa astatine his Mar-a-Lago edifice successful Florida.

One of those employees was Giuffre, who accused Epstein of utilizing her arsenic a enactment enslaved and took her ain beingness astatine her location successful Australia successful April.

Giuffre’s household issued a connection this week appealing to Trump not to see pardoning Maxwell, who they called a “monster who deserves to rot successful situation for the remainder of her life”.

In an interrogation connected Friday night, Trump said that cipher had asked him to assistance clemency to Maxwell, but helium “had a close to bash it”.

“I’m allowed to bash it, but nobody’s asked maine to bash it. I cognize thing astir it. I don’t cognize thing astir the case, but I cognize I person the close to bash it,” Trump said successful an interview.

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