A top prison official says they are “sick” of catering to Ghislaine Maxwell at her reportedly luxurious new prison digs—and lawmakers are raising alarms over the perks she allegedly receives.
According to whistleblowers who spoke to the House Committee on the Judiciary, guards at the so-called “Club Fed,” officially Federal Prison Camp Bryan, are waiting on the convicted sex trafficker “hand and foot.”
Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) detailed the situation in a fiery letter to President Donald Trump, claiming that anyone pushing back against the “grotesque pampering” of Maxwell is being “punished and retaliated against” by FPC Bryan Warden Tanisha Hall.
Maxwell, 63, was transferred to the low-security camp this summer after meeting with a top DOJ official. While inmates at FPC Bryan reportedly have access to pilates, Maxwell’s treatment appears far beyond the ordinary.
“Within FPC Bryan, the deference and servility to Ms. Maxwell have reached such preposterous levels that one of the top officials at the facility has complained that he is ‘sick of having to be Maxwell’s b—h,’” Raskin wrote.
According to Raskin, Maxwell has received custom meals delivered to her cell, been given private workout sessions, had access to computers brought in by visitors, and “been allowed to enjoy recreation time in staff-only areas.”
“Needless to say, these luxuries and amenities have not been afforded to any other inmates and mark Ms. Maxwell more as a guest at a Trump hotel than a federal prisoner and child sex offender,” he added.
Maxwell is reportedly working on a “commutation application” to ask Trump—who partied with her several times in the 1990s and 2000s—to commute her 20-year sentence for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring.
She may have reason to hope. The Trump administration reportedly broke Bureau of Prisons rules to transfer her to FPC Bryan, where she has also been given a puppy to play with. Trump has refused to rule out a pardon.
Raskin demanded that Todd Blanche, the DOJ’s deputy attorney general and Trump’s former personal lawyer, be made available for a congressional hearing. Blanche is the DOJ official who met with Maxwell just days before her transfer to Club Fed.
Raskin suggested Maxwell’s transfer might be part of a quid pro quo agreement that could have cleared Trump of any Epstein-related wrongdoing:
“Maxwell’s testimony, the demonstrable actual ‘bulls–t’ in this episode, was clearly designed to exonerate you,” Raskin wrote to Trump. “Ms. Maxwell dutifully stated that she never saw you ‘in any inappropriate setting in any way,’ although she also testified ‘that there was nothing from President Trump’ in Mr. Epstein’s 50th Birthday Book—a flat-out lie directly contradicted by subsequent disclosures.”
Maxwell’s attorney did not respond to requests for comment. The White House, meanwhile, would not confirm or deny a potential pardon.
