“Jeffrey Epstein Victims and Family Blast Trump for Ghislane Maxwell Prison Transfer”, Aug 1, 2025, Dan Mangan, CNBC, at < https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/
“Epstein victims slam government decision to move Ghislaine Maxwell to cushy 'Club Fed' prison”, Aug 1, 2025, Germania Rodriguez Poleo & Daniel Bates, The Daily Mail, at < https://www.dailymail.co.uk/
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(apologies from NB - I did not see this the other day when it was sent)
A few days after the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who had also worked as Donald Trump's personal attorney, conducted two days of “closed door” meetings with Ghislane Maxwell; she was moved to a minimum “club fed” type federal prison in Bryan, Texas. This violates the Federal Bureau of Prisons rules that convicted sex criminals not be housed in minimum security facilities.
In response, among many statements from victims and victim's families was this statement from the Family of Virginia Giuffre, who reportedly killed herself in April, and from Annie Farmer and Maria Farmer two other victims of Epstein, Maxwell and Whomever else: “President Trump has sent a clear message today: Pedophiles deserve preferential treatment and their victims do not matter,” the statement said, noting that the two women and Giuffre’s family had not been notified of Maxwell’s transfer before media reports of it. (Emphasis added)
The true class and criminal machinations of the ruling class are clearly shown in these events.
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Jeffrey Epstein victims and family blast Trump for Ghislaine Maxwell prison transfer
- Two sexual abuse victims of Jeffrey Epstein and the family of late Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre blasted President Donald Trump after learning that Epstein's accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell had been transferred to a less restrictive prison in Texas from Florida.
- "This move smacks of a cover up," Epstein victims Annie Farmer and Maria Farmer, as well as Giuffre's relatives, said in a statement.
- Maxwell's transfer to a Bureau of Prisons camp in Bryan, Texas, came after two days of meetings she had last week in Tallahassee, Florida, with top Justice Department official Todd Blanche.
Two sexual abuse victims of Jeffrey Epstein and the family of late Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre on Friday blasted President Donald Trump after learning that Epstein's accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell had been transferred to a less restrictive prison in Texas from Florida.
"This move smacks of a cover up," Epstein victims Annie Farmer and Maria Farmer, as well as Giuffre's relatives said in a statement.
"President Trump has sent a clear message today: Pedophiles deserve preferential treatment and their victims do not matter," the statement said, noting that the two women and Giuffre's family had not been notified of Maxwell's transfer before media reports of it.
Maxwell's transfer to minimum security camp in Bryan, Texas, came after two days of meetings she and her lawyer had last week in Tallahassee, Florida, with a top Justice Department official.
That official, Deputy Attorney Todd Blanche, is Trump's former criminal defense lawyer.
Trump is a former friend of Epstein and Maxwell.
"It is with horror and outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has received," the statement said.
"Ghislaine Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children on multiple occasions, and she should never be shown any leniency," the statement said.
"Yet, without any notification to the Maxwell victims, the government overnight has moved Maxwell to a minimum security luxury prison in Texas," the statement said.
"This is the justice system failing victims right before our eyes. The American public should be enraged by the preferential treatment being given to a pedophile and a criminally charged child sex offender. The Trump administration should not credit a word Maxwell says, as the government itself sought charges against Maxwell for being a serial liar," the statement said.
"This move smacks of a cover up. The victims deserve better," the statement said.
Mawell's lawyer, who confirmed the transfer to NBC, did not explain why the 63-year-old was transferred from the federal minimum security prison in Tallahassee.
Under BOP policy, unless she received a waiver, Maxwell is ineligible to be housed at a minimum-security prison camp such as Bryan because she is a convicted sex offender, NBC reported.
Sex offenders must be kept in at least a low-level security prison, such as the one Maxwell had been in in Tallahassee
The administrator of BOP's Designation and Sentence Computation Center can waive the policy to allow a sex offender to go into a federal camp.
A senior administration official told NBC News, "Any false assertion this individual was given preferential treatment is absurd."
"Prisoners are routinely moved in some instances due to significant safety and danger concerns," the official said.
Jack Scarola, a lawyer who represents 20 Epstein victims, told NBC News, "The victims of the Epstein/Maxwell conspiracy continue to endure the emotional pain of every development in the negotiations with Ghislaine Maxwell."
"They wait anxiously and expect to be afforded full access to all relevant information concerning the criminal conduct that has so severely damaged them," Scarola said. "Then, once properly informed, they look forward to having their voices be heard with respect to any action concerning Ms. Maxwell that might be contemplated."
Maxwell was convicted at trial in 2021 of crimes related to grooming underage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein. She is serving a 20-year prison sentence.
Blanche met with Maxwell for hours last week after saying he was interested in learning whether she had information about other potential abuses of girls and women in Epstein's orbit.
Blanche asked Maxwell "maybe about 100 different people," her lawyer David Oscar Markus said last week.
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Ghislaine Maxwell wins prison concession as she seeks Trump pardon
Ghislaine Maxwell was quietly moved from a Florida prison to a more comfortable one in Texas this week, as she campaigns for a pardon from President Donald Trump.
Jeffrey Epstein's associate was serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking in a low security Tallahassee prison but was moved on Thursday to the minimum security Federal Prison Camp Bryan in southeast Texas, The New York Sun first reported.
The move was immediately slammed by Epstein's victims and their families.
'This is the justice system failing victims right before our eyes,' thundered sisters Annie and Maria Farmer and members of Virginia Giuffre's family in a statement obtained by Daily Mail.
'Ghislaine Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children on multiple occasions, and she should never be shown any leniency.
'Yet, without any notification to the Maxwell victims, the government overnight has moved Maxwell to a minimum security luxury prison in Texas.'
Maxwell's lawyer David Oscar Markus confirmed to Daily Mail that she was moved from the Tallahassee prison on Thursday.
The 63-year-old convicted sex trafficker reportedly spent some time in a federal prison in Oakdale, Louisiana before going on to the Texas facility.
Ghislaine Maxwell was reportedly moved from a Florida prison to a more comfortable one in Texas this week
Maxwell was previously held at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee. She is seen running there on July 8
The disgraced British socialite will now be held in the same prison as Theranos scammer Elizabeth Holmes, seen right in February at the prison
The disgraced British socialite is now in the same prison as Theranos scammer Elizabeth Holmes and former Real Housewife of Salt Lake City Jen Shah.
Maxwell's new home mostly holds white-collar criminals and only female inmates.
She will now be able to purchase beauty and leisure items from the commissary, including make-up and crochet and sewing kits.
Prison consultant Justin Paperny told Daily Mail he had never seen anyone convicted of a sex offense serve time in a minimum security prison. Tallahassee is rated low security.
'She was in a low security prison, that looks like prisons on TV or in the movies. You’re fenced in, razor wire, women serving typically 10 years or longer, more violent crime, sexual offences,' he said.
‘A camp is different and when you go to a place like Bryan, you feel like Disneyland.
‘She will feel incredibly free. There is a very low staff to prisoner ratio and camps like Bryan, no fences or barbed wire.
'You can literally walk off and nobody will stop you. It’s a cushy country club and looks like a corporate office park or a junior college,' added Paperny, who runs White Collar Advice, which advises future inmates on what to expect inside.
Last week, Maxwell sat for hours answering questions by Justice Department officials about her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein
He called the move from Florida to Texas 'a massive upgrade' and suggested it was in return for giving an interview to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
‘After that meeting last week she’s been rewarded with a transfer to a prison that’s closer to some family in Dallas.
‘I’ve never seen this before,' he emphasized.
At Bryan there is a softball field, a track for running – Maxwell is a keen runner – and even a pickleball court.
Paperny said: 'She could study horticulture, parenting, adult education, she could become a teacher.
'Visitation is more relaxed and she can have visitors on the weekends. It is very much a place where you can roam and move around the whole compound and just go back to the dorm to sleep and for head count'.
Paperny said that Bryan has 'several' TV rooms and prisoners can even use email, a privilege that he says Maxwell may be given.
Dozens of women in the facility have illegal mobile phones and Maxwell will likely be offered one, Paperny said.
Even without such a device she will get 300 minutes a month of calls on the prison phone lines.
Prison consultant Justin Paperny told Daily Mail he had never seen anyone convicted of a sex offense serve time in a minimum security prison. The Federal Prison Camp in Bryan Texas is pictured
Maxwell will now be able to purchase beauty and leisure items from the commissary, including make-up and crochet and sewing kits
Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer who represented several Epstein victims, gave an ominous warning about Maxwell’s move.
He said: ‘Remember what happened to Epstein when they moved him from high protective custody to a lower security level’.
Epstein hanged himself in 2019 while awaiting trial: an official report found that despite attempting suicide once before, his cellmate was moved out in a breach of Bureau of Prisons policy.
Maxwell's lawyer declined to reveal the reason for the move when reached by The New York Times.
The transfer was handled by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which was unusual, as transfers are usually led by the US Marshals Service.
The Farmer sisters were both abused by Epstein as was Giuffre, who committed suicide in April. Her family members Sky and Amanda Roberts and Lanette and Danny Wilson also signed the harshly worded statement about the transfer.
'It is with horror and outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has received,' they said.
The move comes as Maxwell's lawyers are pushing for a pardon from Trump, who has not publicly ruled it out.
The move comes as Maxwell's lawyers are pushing for a pardon from Trump, who has not publicly ruled it out
Maxwell's lawyers said she would testify 'openly and honestly' to Congress in exchange for a pardon or immunity.
The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Maxwell last week, with a deposition date set for August 11.
But Markus, her lawyer, said she would invoke her 5th Amendment right and decline to testify is her conditions, which include immunity, were not met.
'Ms. Maxwell cannot risk further criminal exposure in a politically charged environment without formal immunity. Nor is a prison setting conducive to eliciting truthful and complete testimony,' Markus said
On Monday, Trump was asked about a potential pardon and replied: 'Well, I’m allowed to give her a pardon, but nobody’s approached me with it.'
Last week, Maxwell sat for hours answering questions by Justice Department officials about Jeffrey Epstein.
Blanche flew down to Florida to sit-down in person with the convicted child sex trafficking offender as the MAGA base demands answers on her knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes amid claims of a 'cover-up.'
Her lawyer Markus said Maxwell 'was asked maybe about 100 different people.'
'The deputy attorney general is seeking the truth,' Markus said. 'He asked every possible question, and he was doing an amazing job.'
Last month the Justice Department said it would not release more files related to the Epstein investigation, despite promises that claimed otherwise from Attorney General Pam Bondi.
The department also said an Epstein client list does not exist, angering the MAGA movement who expected president Trump to release all the information about the Epstein case.
Maxwell is the only person in prison connected to Epstein's sex trafficking.
In 2023, she complained that she was living in fear at the Tallahassee facility after she ratted out two violent Cuban inmates for trying to extort her.
However conditions seemed to later improve for Maxwell, who spent her days in the Florida prison teaching Pilates and etiquette classes.
Maxwell also got a job in the prison library from where she filed hundreds of grievances about conditions in the prison, including her lack of access to hair dye.
She is appealing her conviction, based on the government’s pledge years ago that any potential Epstein co-conspirators would not be charged, Markus said.
The pledge was made when Epstein struck a deal with federal prosecutors in 2008 that shifted his case to Florida state court, where he pleaded guilty to soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution.
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