‘Disgusted': Uproar in Epstein ex's new jail
Fellow prisoners in Ghislaine Maxwell's new jail are 'disgusted' that the notorious sex trafficker was quietly transferred to a cushy US prison camp known as 'Club Fed' last week.
The convicted child sex pest was moved from a lockup in Florida to the minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas, east of Austin, as she tries to hash out a deal with the feds to spill secrets about her late pedophile ex, Jeffrey Epstein, reports The New Yok Post.
'Every inmate I've heard from is upset she's here,' Julie Howell, who's serving a 12-month stint for theft, told the UK's Telegraph newspaper.
'This facility is supposed to house nonviolent offenders,' she added.
'Human trafficking is a violent crime.
'We have heard there are threats against her life and many of us are worried about our own safety because she's here.'
The federal Bureau of Prisons hasn't given a reason why Maxwell was relocated.
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Jeffrey Epsetin and Ghislaine Maxwell. (Photo by Handout / US District Court for the Southern District of New York / AFP).
Her lawyer, David Oscar Markus, confirmed the move but declined to discuss the reasons behind it.
The transfer comes as Maxwell's criminal case continues to generate renewed public attention — and just days after she met with Deputy Attorney-General Todd Blanche in an attempt to get immunity and a deal to divulge what she knows about Epstein.
The notorious madam is serving 20 years after she was convicted in 2021 of helping Epstein groom and abuse underage girls.
Until her transfer to the Texas prison camp, Maxwell had been holed up at the low-security prison in Tallahassee.
Her new prison currently houses well-known white-collar criminals, including Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Theranos fraudster convicted of ripping off investors, as well as Jen Shah of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.
Ghislaine Maxwell pictured in prison.
Minimum-security federal prison camps are known for housing criminals that the Bureau of Prisons considers to be the lowest security risk.
'It's one of the best prisons for anyone to go to,' Josh Lepird, regional vice president for the prison officers' union that includes Maxwell's new camp, told the Houston Chronicle.
'When you hear people say 'Club Fed,' they're talking about places like FPC Bryan.'
Mr Lepird added that inmates usually end up at prison camps when they have just a few years left on their sentences.
'But if someone is a co-operating witness, they can request a lower security level,' he said.
Maxwell's stint is slated to be up until 2037.
Federal Prison Camp, Bryan. (Meredith Seaver/College Station Eagle via AP)
Theranos' founder Elizabeth Holmes (L) arrives at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, on May 30, 2023. (Photo by Mark Felix / AFP)
Her case has been the subject of heightened public scrutiny ever since outcry erupted over the Justice Department's revelation last month that it wouldn't be releasing any additional documents from the Epstein sex trafficking investigation.
Maxwell's transfer comes roughly a week after Mr Blanche — President Trump's former defence lawyer — huddled with the disgraced British socialite and her lawyer at the US Attorney's Office in Tallahassee.
President Trump, for his part, said no one had asked him about granting Maxwell clemency – as speculation swirled a deal was in the works.
'I'm allowed to do it but nobody's asked me to do it,' he told Newsmax in an interview broadcast Friday.
'I know nothing about it. I don't know anything about the case, but I know I have the right to do it. I have the right to give pardons, I've given pardons to people before, but nobody's even asked me to do it.'
This story was published in The New Yok Post and is reproduced with permission.
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