Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein now serving a 20-year prison sentence for sexually exploiting and abusing teenage girls, has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to minimum-security prison camp in Texas, her lawyer said on Friday.
The move, which was reported earlier by The New York Sun, came about a week after Ms. Maxwell was interviewed over two days in prison in Tallahassee, Fla., about the Epstein case by Todd Blanche, the No. 2 official in the Justice Department and one of President Trump’s former lawyers.
Ms. Maxwell’s lawyer, David O. Markus, declined to comment on the reason for the move.
Mr. Blanche met with Ms. Maxwell and Mr. Markus last Thursday and Friday amid a firestorm of criticism from Trump supporters who have called for the administration to release all federal files related to Mr. Epstein.
Before entering government service, several top aides to Mr. Trump, including the F.B.I. director Kash Patel, had led the president’s followers to believe that there were secrets lurking in the Epstein files about a cabal of powerful men implicated in Mr. Epstein’s sex crimes. Many of those followers were outraged after the Justice Department released an unsigned letter last month saying there would be no further disclosures about the case.
The letter was issued about two months after top officials at the Justice Department informed Mr. Trump that he himself was mentioned in the files, according to several people with knowledge of the exchange. A person’s name appearing in the documents is not necessarily an indication of wrongdoing.
Mr. Markus has said that during Ms. Maxwell’s interview with Mr. Blanche, she answered questions about 100 people. It remains unclear whether those people were victims of Mr. Epstein, his associates or other people implicated in her own sex-trafficking case.
Ms. Maxwell has made it clear that she would like a pardon or for her sentence to be thrown out or reduced. Mr. Trump has not indicated what he intends to do but has told reporters that he is legally allowed to pardon Ms. Maxwell.
Alan Feuer covers extremism and political violence for The Times, focusing on the criminal cases involving the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and against former President Donald J. Trump.
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