Overview
- Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met one-on-one with Maxwell in July under limited immunity, prompting conflict-of-interest concerns given his former role as President Trump’s defense lawyer.
- Maxwell was quietly moved from FCI Tallahassee in Florida to Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, a minimum-security facility that normally bars sex offenders without an uncommon waiver.
- House Oversight and Judiciary Democrats issued letters and subpoenas to the DOJ and Bureau of Prisons seeking detailed files and transcripts of Maxwell’s interviews and transfer documentation amid witness-tampering allegations.
- U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer and other judges have rejected broad unsealing of grand jury materials, finding that releasing them would yield “next to nothing new.”
- Claims that President Trump privately dismissed Epstein victims as “Democrats” have been denied by the White House even as FOIA lawsuits and congressional inquiries press forward.