By Michael Hernandez
WASHINGTON (AA) - Convicted Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a federal prison camp in Texas, prison officials said Friday.
"We can confirm Ghislaine Maxwell is in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas," the agency said in a statement to Anadolu.
Maxwell is in the midst of a 20-year prison term after being convicted of multiple sex crimes in 2021.
The Bryan, Texas, prison camp is a minimum-security, women-only facility, according to the Bureau of Prisons website.
The decision to move Maxwell there came roughly one week after she sat down with senior Justice Department official Todd Blanche for two days of interviews. Blanche has not commented on what was discussed during the hours of discussion.
Maxwell is separately seeking to have the Supreme Court throw out her conviction and is separately seeking a pardon from President Donald Trump. Trump has denied taking the matter under consideration.
The Justice Department's public determination earlier this month that Epstein was not murdered in his jail cell in 2019 and its claim that he had no "client list" has set off the largest rift with Trump's MAGA, or Make America Great Again, base.
Epstein mingled with the wealthy and powerful, including prominent politicians, for decades before he pled guilty in 2008 to felony solicitation and procuring a person under the age of 18 for prostitution.
Trump's MAGA allies have for years loudly clamored for the release of the government's Epstein records as they speculate that the files incriminate high-profile individuals. The WSJ reported that the Justice Department has a “truckload” of documents related to Epstein in its possession.