Jeffrey Epstein associate, serving 20 years for sex-trafficking crimes, is now in minimum-security federal prison in Texas
Longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking crimes, has reportedly said that she is “much, much happier” after the Trump administration transferred her to a minimum-security federal prison in Texas, according to emails obtained by NBC News.
Maxwell, 63, was moved from a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida, to the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas in August – just days after she was interviewed about the Epstein case by deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche. Blanche is a former personal lawyer for Donald Trump, who had been friends with the late Epstein – a convicted sex offender – before winning two presidencies.
The interview with Blanche came as the administration faced growing pressure to release more documents related to the Epstein investigation, a pledge that Trump had made during his campaign.
Maxwell’s transfer, which experts described as “unprecedented”, prompted questions as well as outrage from victims of Epstein, who died by suicide while incarcerated in 2019. They wondered why a convicted sex offender like Maxwell was moved to a facility where most of the inmates are serving time for non-violent offenses and white-collar crimes.
