Workers at the Texas federal prison camp housing Jeffrey Epstein
accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell have been fired for leaking emailsin which
she described the cushy conditions— and the Democratic lawmaker who
purportedly made them public should be punished too, her attorney said in
a fiery statement Friday.Leah Saffian rebuked House Judiciary Committee
ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) over the publication of messages in
which Maxwell raved about her treatment at Federal Prison Camp Bryan —
even praising warden Tanisha Hall for helping her send and receive
documentsneeded for her unsuccessful appeal to the Supreme Court.“The
congressman is a ranking member of the House Oversight [actually
Judiciary] Committee, an attorney and law professor. He must be aware that
his conduct undermines the whole legal process,” Saffian said. “His
action should be a matter for professional disciplinary action.”
Leah Saffian, an attorney for Maxwell, accused Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)
of releasing Maxwell’s emails to the media.“There have been appropriate
consequences already for employees at Federal Prison Camp Bryan,” Saffian
went on. “They have been terminated for improper, unauthorized access to
the email system used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons [BOP] to allow
inmates to communicate with the outside world.“The provision of those
emails to a federal official who then caused them to be shared with the
media is a breach of constitutional protections including the First, Sixth
and Fourteenth amendments afforded to all prisoners.”The emails from
Maxwell, 63,were published by NBC NewsNov. 8.The following Monday, Raskin
fired off a letter to President Trump claiming that a whistleblower had
told him Maxwell was “preparing a ‘Commutation Application’ for your
Administration to review, undoubtedly coming to you for your direct
consideration.”In Friday’s statement, Saffian claimed that Maxwell,
serving a 20-year sentence after her December 2021 conviction for federal
charges of grooming and sexually abusing young women, “has not requested a
commutation — or a made a pardon — application to the second Trump
administration.”Instead, she claimed, Maxwell would soon file a petition
in Manhattan federal court challenging her detention based on “new
evidence” that would purportedly “have had a material impact” on the
outcome of her criminal trial.
Maxwell’s lawyer demanded that Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) face
disciplinary action.In other emails, Maxwell favorably compared the
conditions at Bryan to her previous incarceration at a federal prison in
Tallahassee, Fla.“The kitchen looks clean too — no possums falling from
the celling [sic] to fry unfortunately on ovens, and become mingled with
the food being served,” Maxwell wrote in one message.“The food is
legions better, the place is clean, the staff responsive and polite — I
haven’t seen or heard the usual foul language or screaming accompanied
by threats leveled at inmates by anyone,” she wrote in another missive
on Aug. 8. “I have not seen a single fight, drug deal, passed out person
or naked inmate running around or several of them congregating in a
shower! … I am much much happier here and more importantly safe.”The
leaked emails are “just the latest example of Ms. Maxwell’s
constitutional and human rights being ridden roughshod over,” stated
Saffian, noting that the Justice Department’s own internal watchdog
described the Tallahassee prison as “filled with black mold, with inmate
contaminated with rodent droppings and infested with insects.”
Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking for the late pedophile Jeffrey
Epstein.A spokeswoman for House Judiciary Committee Democrats insisted
to The Post that the fired workers were “whistleblowers” who wanted to
expose Maxwell’s “preferential treatment.”“Any effort by BOP to
intimidate, silence, or retaliate against anyone, including inmates and
staff with information on Ms. Maxwell’s outrageous preferential
treatment, is unacceptable,” she said, adding that “there was no sharing
of privileged information” with the media.
“Judiciary Democrats will continue to demand answers and expose the
truth as we get to the bottom of the effort to cover up this
Administration’s obscene coddling of a convicted sexual trafficker and
abuser.”
