The Bureau of Prisons has transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from a federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security facility in Bryan, Texas.
The transfer happened as Maxwell, an accomplice of the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, seeks a deal with the Trump administration, eager to tamp down a furor over its refusal to release its files on Epstein.
Maxwell attorney David Markus confirmed the move to HuffPost but declined to comment any further. Earlier this week, Markus wrote in a letter to members of Congress seeking Maxwell’s testimony that she’d be happy to speak in exchange for a pardon or commutation from President Donald Trump.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping Epstein recruit and groom underage girls for sexual exploitation by Epstein, Maxwell and others. Epstein died by suicide in federal custody in 2019 shortly after he’d been indicted.
Trump was friends with Epstein for years, but said this week their relationship soured after Epstein and Maxwell “stole” young women from his Mar-a-Lago club.
