Trump’s Child Sex Trafficker Friend Ghislaine Maxwell May Be Eligible For Work Release

President Donald Trump’s child sex-trafficking friend Ghislaine Maxwell appears to be eligible for work release assignments outside the minimum security “camp” she was transferred to after meeting with Trump’s former defence lawyer, who is now a top Department of Justice official.Maxwell’s Bureau of Prisons classification shows her custody status as “OUT,” which normally would mean she is permitted to work outside the federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, where she is being held. That is a privilege that convicted sex offenders are not permitted under the bureau’s own rules.The Bureau of Prisons, citing privacy rules, declined to respond to HuffPost’s queries about Maxwell’s status and how she attained it despite her 2021 conviction on sex trafficking charges. Trump’s White House staff also did not respond to HuffPost’s queries.Maxwell’s prison classification was first reported by podcaster Allison Gill on her Substack blog.Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic senator from Rhode Island and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that oversees the federal prisons, wrote a letter last week to the Bureau of Prisons asking how Maxwell came to be transferred to a minimum-security prison camp in apparent violation of its policy.“Ghislaine Maxwell’s quiet transfer to a ‘Club Fed’ prison does not comport with the seriousness of the sex crimes she was found guilty of,” Whitehouse said in a statement.“It just so happens that the transfer was facilitated one week after Maxwell’s highly unusual meeting with the deputy attorney general. This whole thing reeks of a coordinated protection racket run at taxpayer expense to shield the president from the fallout from his years-long friendship with a notorious sex trafficker.”Maxwell, who is 63, was indicted in 2020 during Trump’s first White House stint, the year after her associate Jeffrey Epstein was found hanged in his jail cell following his indictment on charges of trafficking girls as young as 14 into a world of sexual predation and abuse with Maxwell’s help.Maxwell was convicted by a federal jury in 2021 and sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022.Testimony from her trial showed that she sometimes participated in Epstein’s rape of girls, in addition to searching for and “grooming” victims.The federal prison system ordinarily treats sex offenders more strictly than other inmates. According to the Bureau of Prisons, even in cases where a defendant is originally charged with sexual assault but ultimately pleads guilty to simple assault, the fact of the rape accusation follows the inmate, who then is labelled a sex offender when entering prison.That classification makes it impossible to be transferred to the lowest-security prisons — minimum-security facilities derisively known as “Club Feds” — and thereby allowed to participate in programs that permit inmates to work outside the fence “with a minimum of two-hour intermittent staff supervision,” according to federal prison rules.Donald Trump out on the town with Ghislaine Maxwell in a photo from Oct. 29, 1997. Trump was close friends with Epstein and frequently socialized with him for at least 15 years, often attending parties stocked with young models. Trump was friends with Maxwell for even longer through her father, Robert Maxwell, the British publishing magnate who in 1991 bought the New York Daily News.When Maxwell was charged in 2020, Trump said: “I just wish her well.”Of late, Trump has swung between avoiding queries about Epstein and Maxwell — he claimed he did not understand the question when a reporter asked why it took him seven years to end Epstein’s membership at his Palm Beach country club, Mar-a-Lago — and claiming that his involvement with the two was minimal.“I never had the privilege of going to his island, and I did turn it down,” the president said last month about Epstein’s infamous Little St. James in the US Virgin Islands.Although Trump and his allies promised during his 2024 campaign to release investigative files on Epstein, he is now claiming that doing so could hurt the reputations of innocent people. Trump’s own name appears in the files, according to published reports, which Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly explained to him during a briefing.On July 7, Bondi’s Department of Justice issued a statement that no further information would be released about Epstein’s case — even though in February, Bondi herself staged a photo opportunity boasting about the release of “Epstein Files” binders to pro-Trump media influencers.Following angry backlash from Trump’s supporters, Bondi requested that a federal judge release the transcripts of the grand jury proceedings that produced the indictment against Maxwell. On Monday, US District Judge Paul Engelmayer denied that request, writing that it appeared to be an effort to obfuscate rather than illuminate.“A member of the public, appreciating that the Maxwell grand jury materials do not contribute anything to public knowledge, might conclude that the government’s motion for their unsealing was aimed not at ‘transparency’ but at diversion — aimed not at full disclosure but at the illusion of such,” he wrote.

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