One easy-to-resolve mystery of the Jeffrey Epstein case remains unanswered: Why was Ghislaine Maxwell transferred last year to a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas, that houses mainly nonviolent offenders and white-collar crooks?

This puzzling relocation occurred after Todd Blanche, then the deputy attorney general (and formerly Donald Trump’s personal attorney), traveled to Tallahassee, Florida, to interview Maxwell for hours, during which she praised Trump and said she had never witnessed him engaging in sexual misconduct.

At the time of her chat with Blanche, Maxwell—who is serving a 20-year sentence for procuring minors for Epstein to sexually abuse—was locked up in a medium-security, co-ed facility. The Bryan facility is a cushier, women-only prison that offers yoga classes and a puppy program for inmates. The government has never provided an explanation of why Epstein’s chief collaborator was moved to Bryan, which at the time was home to disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star and fraudster Jen Shah.

Looking for answers, last summer I submitted a Freedom of Information Act request with the Bureau of Prisons asking for information related to this transfer. Specifically:

all records mentioning or referencing Maxwell’s transfer to Federal Prison Camp Byran. This includes emails, memoranda, transfer orders, phone messages, texts, electronic chats, and any other communications, whether internal to BOP or between BOP personnel and any other governmental or nongovernmental personnel

The BOP did not rush to provide the information. After months of delay, the agency noted it would take up to nine months to fulfill this request.

So we sued.

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