Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, is transferred to a prison camp in Texas

WASHINGTON AP Jeffrey Epstein s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas as her criminal incident generates renewed populace attention The federal Bureau of Prisons disclosed Friday that Maxwell had been transferred to Bryan Texas but did not explain the circumstances Her attorney David Oscar Markus also approved the move but declined to discuss the reasons for it Maxwell was convicted in of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the disgraced financier and was sentenced to years in prison She had been held at a low-security prison in Tallahassee Florida until her transfer to the prison camp in Texas where other inmates include Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and Jen Shah of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Minimum-security federal prison camps house inmates the Bureau of Prisons considers to be the lowest measure exposure Selected don t even have fences The prison camps were originally designed with low safety to make operations easier and to allow inmates tasked with performing work at the prison like landscaping and maintenance to avoid repeatedly checking in and out of a main prison facility Prosecutors have commented Epstein s sex crimes could not have been done without Maxwell but her lawyers have maintained that she was wrongly prosecuted and denied a fair trial and have floated the idea of a pardon from President Donald Trump They have also petitioned the U S Supreme Court to take up her occurrence Trump mentioned Friday night that no one has inquired him about a clemency for Maxwell I m allowed to do it but nobody s urged me to do it he reported Newsmax in an interview broadcast Friday night I know nothing about it I don t know anything about the occurrence but I know I have the right to do it I have the right to give pardons I ve given pardons to people before but nobody s even requested me to do it Maxwell s event has been the subject of heightened constituents focus since an outcry over the Justice Department s declaration last month saying that it would not be releasing any additional documents from the Epstein sex trafficking probe The decision infuriated online sleuths conspiracy theorists and elements of Trump s base who had hoped to see proof of a regime cover-up Since then administration administrators have tried to cast themselves as promoting transparency in the occurrence including by requesting from courts the unsealing of grand jury transcripts Maxwell meanwhile was interviewed at a Florida courthouse over two days last week by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and the House Oversight Committee had also mentioned that it yearned to speak with Maxwell Her lawyers noted this week that they would be open to an interview but only if the panel were to ensure immunity from prosecution In the Newsmax interview Trump explained he did not know when Blanche would disclose to the society what he and Maxwell discussed during the interviews I think he just wants to make sure that innocent people aren t hurt but you d have to speak to him about it Trump announced In a letter Friday to Maxwell s lawyers Rep James Comer the committee chair wrote that the committee was willing to delay the deposition until after the resolution of Maxwell s appeal to the Supreme Court That appeal is expected to be resolved in late September Comer wrote that while Maxwell s testimony was vital to the Republican-led scrutiny into Epstein the committee would not provide immunity or any questions in advance of her testimony as was requested by her band Associated Press writers Michael Balsamo Matt Brown and Darlene Superville contributed to this record