Jeffrey Epstein’s long-time associate Ghislaine Maxwell has reportedly been moved from her prison in Florida to another institution in Texas, The New York Sun reports.
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence for her role in helping Epstein recruit, groom, and abuse young girls. She was being held at a federal prison in Tallahassee. Now, she’s at the Federal Prison Camp Bryan in southeast Texas, a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson told the Sun.
Maxwell was temporarily placed at a federal prison in Oakdale, Louisiana before moving to Texas, the Sun reports.
This move comes amid mounting speculation over whether President Donald Trump could grant the British socialite a pardon.
“Well, I’m allowed to give her a pardon, but nobody’s approached me with it,” Trump said Monday. “Nobody’s asked me about it.”
Maxwell asked Congress Tuesday to push for a pardon so she could “testify open and honestly” before lawmakers, ABC News reports. This comes after the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Maxwell last week. Her deposition date is set for August 11.
Her attorney, David Oscar Markus, said Maxwell would invoke her Fifth Amendment right and decline to testify if certain conditions aren’t met. These include granting Maxwell immunity and interviewing her outside of the prison where she’s carrying out her sentence.
“Ms. Maxwell cannot risk further criminal exposure in a politically charged environment without formal immunity. Nor is a prison setting conducive to eliciting truthful and complete testimony,” Markus said.
“Of course, in the alternative, if Ms. Maxwell were to receive clemency, she would be willing—and eager—to testify openly and honestly, in public, before Congress in Washington, D.C.,” he added.
Maxwell has also petitioned the Supreme Court to consider an appeal of her conviction, which the Justice Department has urged the court to reject. Markus also asked the House Oversight Committee to postpone Maxwell’s deposition until the Supreme Court has decided whether to take her case.
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