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BumRushDaShow

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Fri Aug 8, 2025, 06:45 PM Aug 2025

Senator Demands Bureau Of Prisons Explain Ghislaine Maxwell Transfer

Source: Huff Post

Aug 8, 2025, 02:43 PM EDT


The Bureau of Prisons moved Ghislaine Maxwell to one of its least restrictive facilities last week at the behest of the Trump administration, which has given no explanation for the bizarrely preferential treatment.

So on Friday, Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) demanded a formal explanation for the move from the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Given the highly unusual nature of the transfer, it would have had to be personally approved by a high-level BOP staffer. In the letter, addressed to BOP Director William Marshall, Reed asks directly if BOP approved the transfer in response to a request from President Donald Trump or any other Trump administration official.

Sex offenders are not allowed to be sent to such facilities under BOP rules and require a special waiver for that to happen. “Sexual predators shouldn’t be afforded preferential treatment,” Reed said. “Earlier this week, BOP transferred Ms. Maxwell to ... the least restrictive facility operated by BOP, reserved for non-violent first-time offenders or inmates who are at the tail end of longer sentences and are slated for release,” Reed noted in the letter.

“A serious felon can be transferred to a minimum-security prison camp only after the personal approval by the Chief of the BOP’s Designation and Sentence Computation Center, who ultimately reports to you,” he added.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ghislaine-maxwell-transfer-prison_n_6896279fe4b059385ba0841e



Link to Sen. Reed LETTER (PDF) - https://www.reed.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/8-6-2025_letter_to_bop_re_ghislaine_maxwell_signed.pdf
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Senator Demands Bureau Of Prisons Explain Ghislaine Maxwell Transfer (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 2025 OP
Democrats should call a news conference mountain grammy Aug 2025 #1
Um, go on tv and announce you have evidence trump did it Hornedfrog2000 Aug 2025 #2
Who owns all the TV stations? BumRushDaShow Aug 2025 #3
The Senator should not hold his breath. TomSlick Aug 2025 #4
Did any one notice in one of Trump's answers to questions about this whole mess that Marie Marie Aug 2025 #5
Good. Paladin Aug 2025 #6
The whole world knows what's going on, except for the United States lawmakers. C Moon Aug 2025 #7

mountain grammy

(29,218 posts)
1. Democrats should call a news conference
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 07:41 PM
Aug 2025

and highlight this letter and their support for it.. constituents need information on this move..

Get out there and hammer it over and over.. EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!

 

Hornedfrog2000

(866 posts)
2. Um, go on tv and announce you have evidence trump did it
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 08:02 PM
Aug 2025

Stop asking. We know who, and why. Let them sue you! Then while it takes them 4 months to figure out there was no leak, you still got your message out, and guess what? We all know the orange rapist ordered it! COME ON DEMOCRATS. I know you read these boards. You will not beat them playing within the rules.

Marie Marie

(11,524 posts)
5. Did any one notice in one of Trump's answers to questions about this whole mess that
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 08:38 PM
Aug 2025

Todd Blanche meeting with and Ms Maxwell's cozy new digs were, by the way, NOT AL ALL UNCOMMON. He just casually threw that out there so his stupid Magots would believe that this wasn't at all suspicious. As soon as he used those words, I knew that he was trying to squelch and silence everyone screaming about how none of this is normal or ethical.

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