Attorney General Pam Bondi falsely claimed in a sworn testimony to Congress that Jeffrey Epstein’s partner in child sex trafficking was not transferred to a “lower-level” prison, even though her Justice Department moved Ghislaine Maxwell to a “Club Fed”-type facility last summer.

Days after meeting with Bondi’s deputy and former Donald Trump defence lawyer Todd Blanche, Maxwell was transferred from Tallahassee, Florida, to the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas. Tallahassee is a low-security prison.

FPC Bryan is an even more relaxed “minimum-security” facility and is typically meant for nonviolent, white-collar criminals in their final months of captivity.

Bondi, like all witnesses who appear before Congress, began her testimony by agreeing to answer questions truthfully “under penalty of perjury” at the start of her appearance before the House Judiciary Committee.

Department of Justice officials did not respond to HuffPost queries about Bondi’s false statement, which came amid angry testimony........

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