House Staff Probe Maxwell’s 20-Year Texas Imprisonment, Get Few Answers on Transfer and Treatment
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Updated · POLITICO · Jun 17
House Staff Probe Maxwell’s 20-Year Texas Imprisonment, Get Few Answers on Transfer and Treatment
3 articles · Updated · POLITICO · Jun 17
Summary
House Oversight and Judiciary staff spent 3 hours at the Texas federal prison holding Ghislaine Maxwell but came away with little new information about her transfer or alleged preferential treatment.
Raskin and Garcia said Bureau of Prisons officials shut down key questions or could not provide basic details on Maxwell’s treatment, alleged sexual assaults at the facility and claimed retaliation against whistleblowers.
The warden told staff Maxwell was not necessarily receiving special treatment, saying her prominence required measures that kept her inside for 30 days.
Maxwell was moved from a Florida prison to the minimum-security Texas camp after meeting then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche about the Epstein case, fueling Democratic suspicions of a quid pro quo.
The visit extends an Epstein-related oversight push that began last year after whistleblower claims that Maxwell was receiving unusually favorable conditions in Texas.