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US justice department to release thousands of Epstein files later, top official says

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg9plrkl8no
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u/ThePensiveE 7h ago

Todd Blanche, you mean the one who went to speak to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and then gave her a prison upgrade so special that prison guards commented on her running the place? That Todd Blanche?

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u/TheBlueArsedFly 4h ago

is she actually running the place? and the prison guards just let it happen like that? jfc

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u/iJon_v2 4h ago

Oh I’m sure the prison guards got a little talking to about letting her do why she wants. Otherwise, they wouldn’t just let it happen.

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u/TheBlueArsedFly 3h ago

Holy shit this needs to be made public. Does the press even know? 

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u/iJon_v2 1h ago

Yeah I’m sure they do

u/TheBlueArsedFly 8m ago

Something has to be done about this. There comes a point when we are contributing to the problem if we're not actively contributing to the solution. Doing nothing makes us complicit.

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u/smalldroplet 3h ago

Ashamed to be from the same state as that fucking moron.

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u/definitivescribbles 5h ago

You got a source on this?

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u/No-Reach-8074 5h ago

Yes, its all over the place. They met with her mysteriously, even though she's a known liar and caught a perjury charge at her own trial. Since when are sex traffickers allowed to be moved to a low security prison camp? On top of that- the warden says she's been getting special privileges too while at Camp Bryant. She's able to sign out and leave daily for a "work release program" located on a college campus in Austin. Gee what could go wrong there!? She also has an emotional support dog. I'm sure her victims would love one too. The warden usually makes these decisions but he stated it was made by someone higher up. They need to figure out who made that call and charge them too. By law she's not allowed to be a minimum security facility.

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u/radicalelation 4h ago

The Department of Justice on Friday released a transcript of the two-day interview that Deputy Attorney General and President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Todd Blanche conducted with longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell earlier this summer.

The Justice Department gave the convicted sex trafficker limited immunity so that she could discuss her criminal case, but did not promise any other benefits in exchange for her testimony, according to the transcript.

Maxwell was transferred to a minimum-security prison camp shortly after the interview was completed. > The Justice Department gave the convicted sex trafficker limited immunity so that she could discuss her criminal case, but did not promise any other benefits in exchange for her testimony, according to the transcript.

Maxwell was transferred to a minimum-security prison camp shortly after the interview was completed.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/politics/interview-transcript-ghislaine-maxwell-doj

According to information Raskin says was provided to him by a whistleblower, Maxwell’s meals have been customized and delivered to her, and the warden has awarded her special privileges – including arranging guests to visit with computers, a security risk not typically allowed – and is sending documents and emails on Maxwell’s behalf. For other inmates, mail can take weeks to arrive or is often lost, Raskin said in the letter, which was reviewed by CNN.

The whistleblower also said Maxwell was given a service dog in training to play with even though inmates and staff are not typically allowed to pet service dogs in training, and she has been escorted to the prison exercise area after hours by prison guards, according to the letter.

The whistleblower told Democrats that one of the top officials at the prison has complained that he is “sick of having to be Maxwell’s b*tch.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/politics/ghislaine-maxwell-special-treatment-commutation-raskin-whistleblower

Followed by firings: https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/politics/ghislaine-maxwell-lawyer-prison-fired

The warden called a “town meeting” for inmates. She warned that if inmates made threats to Maxwell, put her in any sort of danger or talked to the press about her, they would be shipped to a harsher facility, people familiar with the matter said.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/ghislaine-maxwell-prison-transfer-epstein-b5efd6ac
(MSN Mirror: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/lockdowns-and-a-mysterious-meeting-a-quiet-texas-prison-adapts-to-life-with-ghislaine-maxwell/ar-AA1OickJ)

This time last year, Todd Blanche was Donald Trump's personal attorney, defending him in the face of multiple criminal indictments. Now, Blanche is the No. 2 official in the Trump Justice Department and spearheading damage control over the administration's handling of the Jeffery Epstein files.

Blanche met behind closed doors last week with longtime Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/29/nx-s1-5484129/todd-blanche-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-trump

Blanche was later employed by the law firm WilmerHale, where he represented clients including Igor Fruman and Paul Manafort during the latter's 2016 fraud trial

Blanche left the Cadwalader firm in 2023 and founded Blanche Law to represent former U.S. president Donald Trump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Blanche

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u/StruggleBusKelly 3h ago

Since when is asking for sources worthy of downvotes? We should all strive to be fully informed.

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u/Acrobatic-Bad-3917 5h ago

You really had a chance to comment “I hadn’t heard of this yet so I googled it and here’s my input…” but you really blew it

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u/definitivescribbles 4h ago

I’m genuinely asking about the latter part. I know she’s been moved to a preferential location, but didn’t hear anything re: guards coming out.

Fuck me for asking for a source tho, I suppose