The Maxwell Transfer and the Questions Around Todd Blanche (6/23/26)

Liz Oyer, a former DOJ pardon attorney, argues that Todd Blanche and the Trump Justice Department have been hiding the real reason Ghislaine Maxwell was moved from FCI Tallahassee to the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas after Blanche personally interviewed her for roughly nine hours over two days. Maxwell, who is serving 20 years for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually exploit girls, gave Trump highly favorable statements during that meeting, saying he was “a gentleman” and denying that she ever saw him behave inappropriately with Epstein. Days later, she was moved to a far less restrictive prison camp, despite Bureau of Prisons rules that generally bar convicted sex offenders from minimum-security camps because they carry a “public safety factor” requiring at least low-security confinement.

The core accusation is that the DOJ’s public explanation does not hold up. BOP claimed Maxwell was moved for safety reasons and that there was no special treatment, but Oyer says safety threats are normally handled through protective custody, SHU placement, or a transfer to another appropriate low-security facility — not by sending a convicted sex trafficker to the least-secure kind of federal prison. The “clear admission,” in her view, is a May 6, 2026 change to BOP policy giving the attorney general power to designate or redesignate where prisoners are held, which she sees as a retroactive attempt to justify what already happened to Maxwell and to give Blanche sweeping power over prisoner placement. Her conclusion is blunt: this looks like preferential treatment for Maxwell, potentially tied to protecting Trump, and it should be a major line of questioning at Blanche’s confirmation hearing.



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'Clear admission' Trump DOJ broke rules to help Ghislaine Maxwell uncovered by expert - Raw Story