Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell moved from Tallahassee federal prison to one in Texas

Tallahassee’s most famous prisoner is no longer here.

Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of notorious financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — and his  convicted co-conspirator — has been moved from the federal prison in Florida’s capital city to a minimum-security facility in Bryan, Texas.

David Oscar Markus, Maxwell’s Florida lawyer, confirmed in an email that Maxwell had been moved but declined all further comment. Maxwell’s relocation — which happened on Thursday — was first reported by the New York Sun.

It was just last week that Maxwell met with highly placed officials from the U.S. Department of Justice as calls have grown for the release of all files related to Epstein. Epstein died in his New York City jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal charges for sex trafficking minors. He pleaded guilty in 2008 in Florida to procuring and soliciting minors for sex.

Before they entered office, several officials in the administration of President Donald Trump had vowed to open the Epstein files amid speculation about the true nature of his death and his associates. But then, in early July, Attorney General Pam Bondi and others insisted that he had killed himself and that there was no incriminating “client list.”

The uproar over that assertion eventually prompted Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to meet with Maxwell inside the federal courthouse located about four miles from the federal prison where she was incarcerated.

Last week Markus, who is with the firm Markus/Moss PLLC, told reporters that during that meeting that Blanche “asked a lot of questions, and Ms. Maxwell answered every single question. She never invoked a privilege, she never declined to answer.”

Members of Congress had also been pushing to talk to Maxwell but earlier this week it was reported that Maxwell’s attorney told Congress that she needed immunity or a reduction in her 20-year sentence. She also wanted to push her testimony until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on her pending appeal.

On Friday, POLITICO reported that Rep. James Comer, chair of the U.S. House Oversight Committee, had agreed to indefinitely postpone her testimony but said Congress would not offer her immunity.

Some Trump opponents lashed out at the decision to transfer Maxwell, saying her new home is a “cushy” location and questioned why a “registered sex offender” would be moved unless she has a deal pending with the Trump administration.

“They have put herself somewhere that is very, very comfortable,” said long-time Trump critic Rick Wilson on a video he put out on Friday afternoon. “Ghislaine Maxwell being moved to the cushiest federal prison that there is is not a coincidence. It is not a routine transfer. Something happened here that caused this to occur.”