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Staff for the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees on Tuesday visited the Texas federal prison facility where Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, is being held, according to the panel\u2019s top Democrats.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Robert Garcia of California \u2014 the ranking members on Judiciary and Oversight, respectively \u2014 said staff traveled there as part of the panel\u2019s ongoing Epstein investigation in search of \u201canswers about Ms. Maxwell\u2019s unprecedented transfer and VIP treatment.\u201d <\/p>\n

Republican and Democratic staff from both committees attended a three-hour visit to the Texas facility, which included a two-hour tour and a back-and-forth with the facility staff, including the warden, according to a person familiar with the trip who requested anonymity to describe the private visit.<\/p>\n

The warden argued that Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for her part in Epstein\u2019s sex trafficking scheme, was not necessarily given special treatment, according to that person; rather, because of her prominence, measures were required because she had to remain inside for 30 days.<\/p>\n

The lawmakers added that they received little in the way of new details, though, and doubted the truthfulness of the information that they did receive.<\/p>\n

\u201cBureau of Prisons leadership repeatedly shut down our lines of questioning or could not provide basic information about our central concerns, including Ms. Maxwell\u2019s extraordinary treatment, allegations of sexual assault at the facility, and retaliation against inmates who tried to blow the whistle,\u201d Raskin and Garcia said in a statement released Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

Maxwell was moved from a prison in Florida to the minimum security prison camp in Texas after meeting with then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to discuss the Epstein case. During that interview, Maxwell claimed she never saw President Donald Trump in any inappropriate setting with Epstein, the late convicted sex offender.<\/p>\n

Democrats have questioned whether her transfer to a cushier facility was part of a quid pro quo with the Trump administration facilitated by Blanche, who is now the acting attorney general and Trump\u2019s nominee to run the Department of Justice. Although the president has said he broke off contact with Epstein years before his death behind bars in 2019, his onetime relationship with the financier has drawn scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Raskin said last October he wanted his staff to conduct oversight of the Texas detention center. In November, Judiciary Democrats announced<\/u><\/a> they had received information from a whistleblower that suggested Maxwell was receiving preferential treatment there.<\/p>\n

In their statement Tuesday, Raskin and Garcia vowed they would continue to investigate Blanche\u2019s \u201crole in ensuring Ms. Maxwell remains comfortable and quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Staff for the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees on Tuesday visited the Texas federal prison facility where Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, is being held, according to the panel\u2019s top Democrats. In a statement, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Robert Garcia of California \u2014 the ranking members on Judiciary and Oversight, respectively \u2014 said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}