Democratic Reps. Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia have urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to grant them access to the minimum-security federal prison camp in Texas where Ghislaine Maxwell is being held, RadarOnline.com can report.
The elected officials cited whistleblower allegations that she is receiving unusually favorable treatment.
In a letter sent to outlets on Thursday, January 22, the ranking Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees said more than a dozen whistleblowers had come forward with what they described as "damning information" about Maxwell's conditions of confinement at Federal Prison Camp Bryan.
Maxwell, 64, is serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted of helping financier Jeffrey Epstein recruit and traffic underage girls for sexual abuse. Epstein died in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting trial.
According to the lawmakers, whistleblowers claim Maxwell has been given "preferential" and "selective five-star" treatment that deviates from standard Bureau of Prisons rules. They allege she has been allowed unsupervised access to a laptop, which they described as "a remarkable security risk under the facility's own rules and procedures."
"While other inmates watch TV communally and drink tap water, Ms. Maxwell has been granted access to staff-only areas to watch CNN by herself, and she has been provided with bottled water with her meals," Raskin and Garcia wrote.
They also said that when...
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