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Presence of Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice and former girlfriend has angered fellow inmates at Texas prison camp

Presence of Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice and former girlfriend has angered fellow inmates at Texas prison camp

Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to a minimum-security prison in Texas — commonly referred to as a ‘Club Fed’ — has upset her fellow inmates, who believe she shouldn’t be there given the nature of her crimes.

The disgraced British socialite and former girlfriend of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was quietly transferred this week from a stricter low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida, to a prison camp 100 miles outside Houston, Texas.

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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends, what if say someone in the Department of Justice were offering perks and or a pardon.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the DoJ is going to be that incredibly blatant as to publicly pardon the murderer of a high profile witness, they would just... I dunno. What if they put her in a cell, cut the camera for 1-4 minutes, and made it look like she hanged herself?

All of which has nothing to do with "upset her fellow inmates" as per the borderline puff piece article.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know at least one of the suspects with regards to esptein is an inmate within the prison he's in. My thought process is it could be another "suicide". IE someone from trumps team finds a viable inmate that would want to murder Maxwell. Grant information on when guards will be out of place, which cameras are currently not working etc... Basically enabling the inmate to stage the suicide without getting caught.

The inmate wanting to comit the murder makes striking a deal easier.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know we all love true crime dramas and mission impossible and all that nonsense.

What makes more sense?

  1. Bring an inmate to a minimum security prison who would otherwise never be anywhere near Club Fed
  2. Promise the inmate that they'll get pardoned after they murder this one loose end
  3. Position them in the cell next to maxwell's
  4. Organize all of the guard routines to give said inmate an opening
  5. Accidentally open the doors to all the prison cells
  6. Hope said inmate gets to maxwell before The Punisher does
  7. Pardon said inmate and immediately piss off the entire magat base

OR: Just do the exact same shit they may or may not have done with epstein himself so that there is no need for questionable pardons.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I mean off the bat.

  1. Already done.

  2. Perhaps there already is someone in club fed. Hell maybe the deal wasn't for a pardon, but say entrance to club fed for someone else that already doesn't belong there.

  3. Not necesserally, maybe they can declare maxwell in danger, possibly with a puff piece on how all the inmates are hostile to her, so they will have to put her in a block away from where the prisoners are. Maybe an area that's normally closed off due to non-working cameras or something.

  4. Trivial, it's a minimum security prison, shit happens there all the time, there's probably plenty of openings just in normal operation, but a guide would help.

  5. Why all, and again just takes a right oprotunity, maybe that's cells being open at night, or maybe it's just a time maxwell sits in her dorm to read while most prisoners are in the yard or something.

  6. umm... I think that's a problem solved either way.

  7. Doesn't necesserally have to be a pardon, could be a membership to club fed from a less plesent prison before hand, or an offer of a plea deal etc... Also won't neceserally do anything to the magat base if the person isn't named publicly.