Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell moved from Florida prison to Texas lockup

Ghislaine Maxwell, the enactment offender accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, has been moved from a low-security national situation successful Florida to a little restrictive national lockup successful Texas, her lawyer confirmed to NBC News connected Friday.

Maxwell's transportation to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons minimum information campy successful Bryan, Texas, came aft two days of meetings she and her lawyer had past week successful Tallahassee, Florida, with a apical Justice Department official.

Mawell's lawyer did not explicate wherefore the 63-year-old was transferred from the federal minimum information prison in Tallahassee.

Maxwell was convicted astatine proceedings successful 2021 of crimes related to grooming underage girls to beryllium sexually abused by Epstein. She is serving a 20-year situation sentence.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Maxwell for hours past week aft saying helium was funny successful learning whether she had accusation astir different imaginable abuses of girls and women successful Epstein's orbit.

Blanche asked Maxwell "maybe astir 100 antithetic people," her lawyer David Oscar Markus said past week.

Blanche's gathering raised questions astir whether the Trump medication volition question a simplification of Maxwell's condemnation oregon whether President Donald Trump volition pardon her.

The Justice Department and Trump person been criticized for astir a period for failing to merchandise grounds accumulated successful an probe into Epstein contempt anterior promises to marque that accusation public.

The New York Sun archetypal reported that Maxwell had been transferred from her situation successful Florida.

Epstein died successful August 2019 from a jailhouse suicide, weeks aft being arrested connected kid enactment trafficking charges.

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