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Executive Branch (Trump) Ghislaine Maxwell's Prison Transfer Application Released - FOIA Files obtained a copy of the document from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The agency redacted its justification for moving the convicted sex offender to a less-restrictive minimum-security prison in Texas last year,...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-08-31/ghislaine-maxwell-s-prison-transfer-form-released

Ghislaine Maxwell's Prison Transfer Application Released - FOIA Files obtained a copy of the document from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The agency redacted its justification for moving the convicted sex offender to a less-restrictive minimum-security prison in Texas last year, days after she was interviewed by Todd Blanche.

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u/Obvious-Gate9046 8h ago

Ghislaine Maxwell's Prison Transfer Application Released - FOIA Files obtained a copy of the document from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The agency redacted its justification for moving the convicted sex offender to a less-restrictive minimum-security prison in Texas last year, days after she was interviewed by Todd Blanche.

Literally every single bit of it is redacted.. including an entry for when she gets her parole hearing.

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u/extrastupidone 8h ago

Zero reason to redact in this case

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u/Patriot009 8h ago edited 8h ago

It's literally illegal to redact information with the specific goal to avoid public criticism and/or embarrassment of public officials.

Not that it matters, just throw it on the pile with the others.

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u/ShakesDontBreak 7h ago

Whats going to happen is what happened in Florida with DeSantis and Ashley Moody.

They will say "welp, theres so many people involved. We can't pinpoint any one person. So no is one guilty even though a crime was in fact commited. Case closed."

That literally happened in Florida this week. DeSantis stole 10 million dollars from kids with cancer. Grand jury said yup...definitely a crime. But oh well."

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u/JumboGlucose 6h ago

Isn't that why trumps family is banned from having charities? They stole from a childrens cancer fund?

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u/IamMrBucknasty 2m ago

That’s a bingo

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 7h ago

I hope they pursue this in court. But it just another delay to keep news to a minimum until after the elections.

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u/Far_Estate_1626 5h ago

“Illegal”. WTF is that some type of made up word? /s

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u/Lock-out 18m ago

It’s not a made up word, this administration has made it very clear… illegal means brown people.

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u/jedi21knight 2h ago

I don’t think this administration cares about the legality of anything.

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u/Correct_Doctor_1502 7h ago

We all know why this is happening

Trump started a war to distract from it

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u/PresentRaspberry6814 5h ago

My sweet summer child. His voters don't care that he raped children and women, or committed frauds, or is profoundly unintelligent. The billionaires and malign actors (like Stone, Manafort, Flynn, the Russians etc) have money to convince simple people of whatever they like.

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u/donaeries 6h ago

If we had to, what would be the devil’s advocate behind this. I mean she should rot in a hole, but am legitimately interested in why this would be redacted.

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u/Odd-Cantaloupe-5511 2h ago

Woah woah woah, "Because Trump said so" is a perfectly good enough reason for his cronies to redact it

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u/mshaefer 1h ago

Someone light the Katie Phang bat signal! I’m surprised there aren’t more journalists filing similar lawsuits. Would “final agency action” extend that far or was it limited to just the docs DOJ said it would withhold?

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u/Glass-Amount-9170 8m ago

She’s a bad ass for sure!

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u/eubulides 2h ago

There is no parole in federal system.

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u/Obvious-Gate9046 2h ago

And yet it is redacted. Very strange.

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u/mvandemar 8h ago

They didn't just redact the justification for moving her, they redacted *everything*.

https://reddit.com/link/p7p854c/video/gg29jr8uwenh1/player

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u/Obvious-Gate9046 8h ago

Including whether or not and when she gets a parole hearing, yep.

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u/suckercuck 8h ago

“I wish her well”

—Donald Trump

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u/lsdiesel_ 6h ago

🏌️

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u/MattPHS2002 8h ago

No parole at the federal level.

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u/BeeDubsFan 7h ago

Not sure why you are getting down votes for this.

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u/MattPHS2002 7h ago

Me either. Just stating a fact. Oh well, that's reddit for you.

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u/WilditariusAstar 6h ago

No parole because inmates are required to stay in prison for the exact length of time given as their sentence?

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u/MattPHS2002 5h ago

They can get good time credit which I think is up to 15% off. Parole was abolished federally.

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u/MsTLontheDL 4h ago

Unless you have a ‘friend in high places’ like The Orange Cheeto.

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u/MattPHS2002 2h ago

Well that's true.

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u/WilditariusAstar 5h ago

👍✌️

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u/aceloco817 16m ago

Up to 51 days off a year for "good time".

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u/tiffanytrashcan 3h ago

https://kennedyhumanrights.org/person/attorney-elizabeth-oyer/

A decade as a federal public defender tells me everything. Then holding such a significant role at the DOJ, a crucial step in the legal pipeline going directly to the president.

This is a person to listen to.

She was fired for not giving Mel Gibson back his gun rights. Standing up for principles and protecting the vulnerable. Obviously tried to stay in a position of power to prevent the worst abuses going through. Held out as long as she could under this monster.
Though I imagine that seeing the application for the former narco-trafficking president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, probably would have caused her to stroke out, had she still been there for that. Those documents are just as rational as an SCP entity.

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u/JeffSHauser 7h ago

Liz is the BOMB!

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u/KikiChrome 7h ago

I love her videos but her audio is always so distracting. I think the compression is too high. It sounds like she has a mouth full of saliva every time.

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u/Amazing_Entrance_888 8h ago

Blanche is covering for Trump and trying to get Maxwell to protect trump with preferential treatment. Republicans that vote for Trump are pedo supporters and protectors. There’s literally no two ways about it. They’re protecting a known criminal. Ask yourself why.

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u/ledude1 8h ago

This is plain old cover-up. They don't even bother to hide it cuz they know nothing will be done against them.

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u/ComprehendReading 7h ago

They would have assassinated Ghislanshame Maxhweliians if she didn't have secret info.

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u/SoCallMeDeaconBlues1 7h ago

I never would have seen this coming. 🙄

Trump's personal defense lawyer talks privately with the one person who, without any fucking SHADOW OF A DOUBT, is likely the one person still alive who could testify about all of it. She is suddenly transferred to club fed, given all kinds of crazy concessions, and the written justifications or explanations for why she was transferred are hidden from the public eye.

Make no mistake--- she knows. She also no doubt has a deadman switch somewhere.

Meanwhile, said personal defense attorney is now the attorney fucking general of the United States. While there may be a gazillion other things Blanche is covering up in parallel, this one is the golden prize, encrusted with diamonds and jewels. It's a mockery of our entire democratic system. We no longer live in a nation that has any pretense of holding the rich and powerful to literally ANY form of the rule of law.

If you're not completely sickened and despaired by the entire mess, you're not paying any attention. Those pieces of paper I have framed and hanging on the wall feel uniquely irrelevant to the world we are living in.

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u/VibeComplex 8h ago

Yeah, no shit. Why are we pretending like this shit isn’t blatantly obvious?

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u/justlurkshere 8h ago

But, is all this redaction as serious as trying to but the body text for a whole submission in the subject field?

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u/Goldentongue 7h ago

If you change "Federal Bureau of Prisons" to "BOP", the first half of this title can be read to the tune of the chorus from "Maxwell's Silver Hammer".

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u/Obvious-Gate9046 7h ago

Under-rated Beatles tune.

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u/fakemessiah5th 6h ago

This is our dog’s name. Max, after Maxwell silver hammer lol

But fuck this corruption and they will pay. One way or another.

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u/WisdomCow 4h ago

Official justification: blackmail of pedophile President.

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u/External_Counter378 8h ago

I've come to believe this is legal, that the rationale for why she was moved is because she is an intelligence asset and it has actual national security implications. Let that sink in. Our government is the one who orchestrated and funded their whole operation.

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u/Perfecshionism 7h ago

Bullshit.

She may be an intelligence asset, but none of this is fucking legal.

And Trump compromised and caused the death of a hundred intelligence assets.

He is protecting this one because this one knows Trump and several other wealthy Americans were sexually abusing children as Epstein’s clients.

She also has a wealthy and connected family and is suspected to have set up a dead man’s switch if she were to turn up dead like her late boyfriend and partner.

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u/External_Counter378 7h ago

Its immoral. Unethical. Terrifyingly sad that we've corrupted the laws of our country to make a security state where this kind of thing is legal. But pretty much anything goes now when it comes to protecting national security. It wasn't just POTUS caught up in this, it was a military grade honey pot used to control the globe.