Democrats Press Pam Bondi On Mysterious Ghislaine Maxwell Prison Transfer

Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice has received favorable treatment from the Bureau of Prisons.

WASHINGTON ― The Justice Department has to explain why Jeffrey Epstein’s sole convicted co-conspirator won a transfer to a cushy federal prison camp last year, Democrats told U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in a letter on Monday.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act specifically requires the government to release all documents related to Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in Epstein’s sex abuse schemes. The text of the statute doesn’t distinguish between documents from her criminal case and anything more recent.

That means the Justice Department is legally required to put out any documents “related to her transfer to a minimum-security prison camp where she has been granted numerous unusual special privileges,” Reps. Deborah Ross (D-N.C.), Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said in a letter to Bondi.

The Bureau of Prisons, which is part of the Justice Department, transferred Maxwell from a low-security facility in Florida to a minimum security prison camp in Texas. The transfer happened days after Deputy U.S. Attorney Todd Blanche conducted an unusual interview with Maxwell last year in which she said she never witnessed President Donald Trump behave improperly when she, he and Epstein were all partying together in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

“I have now had two conversations with the survivors, and they do not feel like they have gotten justice, and Ghislaine Maxwell getting special treatment is re-traumatizing to them,” Ross told HuffPost.