Trump admin punishing inmates for protesting Epstein accomplice's 'VIP treatment': report

31 October

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Balmoral Estate in Scotland (Image: U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York)

President Donald Trump's administration is now reportedly coming down hard on federal inmates for speaking out against the DOJ's apparent soft treatment of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

That's according to CNN, which reported Friday that Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) — the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee — is now demanding answers from the warden at Maxwell's minimum security prison about what he alleges is "VIP treatment" for deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's chief accomplice. CNN host Jim Sciutto said Raskin is also questioning Maxwell getting "mysterious visitors, mealdelivery and other special perks" and that the DOJ has "retaliatedagainst inmates who dared tospeak out about her fawningpreferential treatment."

Elie Honig, a legal analyst for the network, told Scuitto that while he's less concerned with meal deliveries and meetings with visitors, the major red flag in Raskin's letter is the allegation that inmates have been punished for drawing attention to Maxwell's treatment.

"Apparently there areother inmates in this facility,other female inmates who havespoken out about preferentialtreatment to Ghislaine Maxwell andare now being punished," Honig said. "Representative Raskin points outone particular inmate whoappears to have been kicked outof a training program and movedto a higher security prison.That is a major problem, ifthat's happening as retaliation."

Honig went on to remind viewers that Maxwell shouldn't even be at the Bryan, Texas prison — where she was moved earlier this year after a two-day meeting with Deputy Attorney General (and Trump's former personal attorney) Todd Blanche — due to Bureau of Prisons rules. Facilities like Bryan are typically only for white-collar offenses, whereas violent offenders like those convicted of sex crimes have to serve their sentences in more restrictive conditions.

"That takes awaiver. Somebody within the Justice Department ... has to specifically approvethat, say, 'I waive the normalcourse of proceedings and I'mokay with Ghislaine Maxwellbeing moved to a lower securityprison,'" Honig said. "To this day, we don'tknow who actually authorizedthat. And we've not gottenanswers from DOJ about that."

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