Ghislaine Maxwell moved to federal jail camp in Texas – NBC Boston

Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator and confidant, was moved to a minimal safety federal jail camp in Texas, jail officers stated Friday.

Maxwell, who’s serving a 20-year jail sentence for her function in recruiting and trafficking minors for intercourse, was being held at a low-security facility in Tallahassee, Florida, that housed women and men.

The camp in Bryan, Texas, is minimal safety and solely homes girls. A majority of the inmates on the facility are serving time for nonviolent offenses and white-collar crimes.

Deputy Legal professional Basic Todd Blanche just lately met with Maxwell and her lawyer, David Oscar Markus, for a complete of 9 hours over two days.

Blanche has made no public statements about what Maxwell stated or about subsequent steps within the present Justice Division investigation into Epstein, the financier and convicted intercourse offender who died in jail in 2019.

However the conferences got here within the context of public furor over the July 6 announcement from the DOJ and the FBI {that a} evaluate of the Epstein case had discovered, opposite to conspiracy theories, there was “no incriminating ‘shopper checklist'” and “no credible proof” that he had been blackmailing well-known males, and that he did in actual fact die by suicide.

That furor escalated when Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino didn’t report back to work earlier this month as he thought of resigning over the division’s dealing with of the Epstein information.

And main as much as Blanche’s assembly with Maxwell and Markus, it had develop into an actual challenge for President Donald Trump, a former pal of Epstein and Maxwell, and he has nonetheless not been capable of shake it off.

Different well-known prisoners at Texas camp

Markus confirmed to NBC Information that Maxwell has been moved to the power in Texas, however declined to remark additional.

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is housed there after she was convicted of defrauding buyers out of tons of of tens of millions of {dollars}. So is “Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis” star Jen Shah, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for working a telemarketing scheme that defrauded aged individuals.

“We will affirm, Ghislaine Maxwell is within the custody of the Bureau of Prisons on the Federal Jail Camp Bryan in Bryan, Texas,” the Bureau of Prisons stated in an announcement.

The Bureau of Prisons didn’t specify why she was transferred.