Speaker 1: Hey there, folksit is Monday, August fourth, and Gallaine Maxwell
Speaker 1: was taken out of her low security prison this weekend,
Speaker 1: and there's morning. She woke up in an even lower
Speaker 1: security prison, and with that, welcome to this episode of
Speaker 1: Amy and TJ.
Speaker 2: Robes.
Speaker 1: The story here is that we don't know why, but yes,
Speaker 1: we got word that Gallaine Maxwell was, for reasons still
Speaker 1: yet to be determined, moved from her prison in Tallahassee.
Speaker 3: Right, So she was in a, as you mentioned, a
Speaker 3: fairly low security prison in Tallahassee. But she's now been
Speaker 3: moved to a prison camp, a federal prison camp in Brian, Texas.
Speaker 3: And there are I guess five levels of security in
Speaker 3: a in the federal prison system.
Speaker 4: This is the.
Speaker 3: Lowest of the low so it's the fifth ranked. There
Speaker 3: are fewer guards, there is more freedom, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of perks being in this camp, and there's some famous
Speaker 3: inmates with her as well. So most people are looking
Speaker 3: at this as a much cushier version of what she
Speaker 3: was experiencing in Florida.
Speaker 1: Okay, And all the tiers you talk about, there are
Speaker 1: the five tiers. This is the lowest and this is
Speaker 1: not usually one reserved for people who have convictions like hers.
Speaker 1: She is considered a violent offender. She's convicted of some
Speaker 1: pretty serious child trafficking offenses. So this tier, according even
Speaker 1: to the view of prisons, is not somewhere they would
Speaker 1: normally keep someone like her. So you add all those
Speaker 1: things together with the fact robes that we don't have
Speaker 1: an answer from anybody, and this just adds to the drama,
Speaker 1: to the mystique to some degree. With certainly the mystery
Speaker 1: of this Jeffrey Epstein story. Now what is going on
Speaker 1: with Glain Maxwell.
Speaker 3: That's right, and we have been, as have journalists all
Speaker 3: around the in probably world, been looking for an answer
Speaker 3: as to why Glaine Maxwell was moved. Obviously, the timing
Speaker 3: is suspect. It was, I believe, exactly two weeks to
Speaker 3: the day of when she wrapped the interview, or at
Speaker 3: least the two day session she had with the Deputy
Speaker 3: Attorney General Todd Blanche, where she supposedly, according to her,
Speaker 3: her attorney answered all of his questions. She was granted
Speaker 3: limited immunity to answer those questions, but she apparently spoke
Speaker 3: about or around the names of around one hundred people.
Speaker 3: She said whether or not she knew of any connections
Speaker 3: to Jeffrey Epstein. So she apparently told all spilled all
Speaker 3: to Blanche and lo and behold, two weeks later, she's
Speaker 3: moved to a much nicer.
Speaker 4: Facility.
Speaker 1: Okay, we didn't hear anything about a deal being struck
Speaker 1: at the time. We were told she was given limited
Speaker 1: immunity just in terms of having the conversation with the DOJ. Fine,
Speaker 1: she's also been subpoened, as you mentioned, but that's not
Speaker 1: supposed to come until a little later. And they're actually
Speaker 1: going to delay her testimony in front of the House
Speaker 1: Committee until after her appeal is taken care of with
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. So okay, so here we are. We
Speaker 1: set this thing up. Everybody seems to want to talk
Speaker 1: to her. She has a lot going on and at
Speaker 1: stake right now, at a critical time, and in the
Speaker 1: midst of all of this she gets moved. Don't we
Speaker 1: have to jump to a conclusion that some arrangement was
Speaker 1: made and some deal was made with her for what
Speaker 1: was it? For information she has already given or something
Speaker 1: to come.
Speaker 3: That's right, And because no one is talking, everyone is
Speaker 3: trying to connect the dots. But the irony is of course,
Speaker 3: in the name of transparency. We're supposed to be hearing
Speaker 3: what she knows. In the name of transparency. President Trump
Speaker 3: is trying to unseal documents that were submitted during the
Speaker 3: grandjury testimony.
Speaker 4: In the name of transparency.
Speaker 3: People want to see what it is that folks have
Speaker 3: been able to look at in terms of what Epstein knew,
Speaker 3: the files he kept, what Galaine maxwells. So all of
Speaker 3: this is in the name of transparency, and yet the
Speaker 3: secrecy continues. The veil is still over all of it,
Speaker 3: and now more secrecy.
Speaker 1: Obviously we have to say something has taken place, some
Speaker 1: deal was made. My curiosity now is it for information?
Speaker 1: Does she make this deal before she talked or is
Speaker 1: this now a part of a bigger a much bigger deal.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but we got word of this, I
Speaker 1: think is on Friday and roads the Bureau of Prisons
Speaker 1: put out a statement, short, sweet, to the point.
Speaker 2: Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts.
Speaker 3: We can confirm Glaine Maxwell is in the custody of
Speaker 3: the Federal Bureau of Prisons at the Federal Prison Camp
Speaker 3: Brian in Brian, Texas.
Speaker 4: Period. That's it, nothing more, And no.
Speaker 3: Word from her attorney either, who has been very loquacious.
Speaker 3: He's been very outspoken, talked a lot about what Ghlaine
Speaker 3: Maxwell said in terms of what kind of information she
Speaker 3: gave the Department of Justice, so he's been very vocal
Speaker 3: as well, and saying that Ghlaine Maxwell will tell all
Speaker 3: if she can get any kind of clemency a pardon
Speaker 3: from Trump. He has been floating out all sorts of
Speaker 3: information and ideas and propositions in the media, speaking depressed,
Speaker 3: So for him not to be speaking at all about
Speaker 3: this is also very telling and interesting.
Speaker 1: Okay that for me, that's the first son that I knew. Okay,
Speaker 1: something major is up because that guy has been talking
Speaker 1: from the get go. He has When the DOJ was
Speaker 1: very tight lipped, he came right out and said, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was saying almost he stopped short of given me
Speaker 1: one hundred names exactly, but other than that, he didn't
Speaker 1: mind talking.
Speaker 3: So feel like if they pressed him further, he might
Speaker 3: have spilled out a couple of names, like that's how
Speaker 3: much he was talking.
Speaker 1: So when you tell me this guy something has gotten
Speaker 1: him to stop talking, then something pretty serious is going on, right, Yes.
Speaker 4: I mean we've talked about this before.
Speaker 3: Glane Maxwell is likely the most powerful convicted felon in
Speaker 3: the country right now, and that she knows she has something.
Speaker 4: That everybody wants, and she.
Speaker 3: Has something that perhaps a lot of powerful people don't
Speaker 3: want her to say. We don't know that, but that
Speaker 3: is certainly a part of the speculation and certainly a
Speaker 3: part of the conspiracy theory is that she would be
Speaker 3: able to bury certain powerful people if she did spill
Speaker 3: all the beans.
Speaker 1: Okay, so her options, at least as she sees them legally,
Speaker 1: if the Supreme Court takes up her case. Who knows
Speaker 1: if they will there, who knows she really has an argument,
Speaker 1: But that's one option her only other options. I mean,
Speaker 1: she's not eligible to be let out of prison until
Speaker 1: twenty thirty seven.
Speaker 2: I believe is the absolute earliest.
Speaker 1: After that. This is her shot. She's holding whatever Trump card,
Speaker 1: to give that use of the term, but it's apt here.
Speaker 2: She's hold that.
Speaker 1: What do you do with that thing? She wants to
Speaker 1: get out of prison now. She's also they're not shy
Speaker 1: about asking the president, please pardon me. The President said
Speaker 1: he hasn't been asked yet. I'm sure he's had He's
Speaker 1: heard about this.
Speaker 3: I feel like her attorney basically asked the President via
Speaker 3: the media for that clemency, for that pardon, so he
Speaker 3: kind of has been asked.
Speaker 2: So now, I mean, Rose, what can she?
Speaker 1: I mean, Glaine maxwellsh doesn't she have to play hardball?
Speaker 1: And who wants this information badly enough? Does the administration
Speaker 1: really want the info from her? Or do they want
Speaker 1: to make sure they look like they did everything they
Speaker 1: could in their power to get everything from her about Epstein?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: I mean, it could be a combination of the two.
Speaker 3: We don't know the answer to that, but there has
Speaker 3: been a huge amount of pushback from the victims of
Speaker 3: Glaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, the victim's families, They are
Speaker 3: extremely upset about any potential deal that's being made with
Speaker 3: Glene Maxwell, and certainly by this move because of just
Speaker 3: the optics alone, it looks as though she is being
Speaker 3: given preferential treatment for what.
Speaker 4: We don't know, but.
Speaker 3: They're absolutely post to this, and there are reports that
Speaker 3: other inmates who are in this cushy camp prison camp
Speaker 3: that they're upset as well, because this is a facility
Speaker 3: for non violent offenders, and as we pointed out, Glen
Speaker 3: Maxwell absolutely is a convicted violent offender, and so there
Speaker 3: are concerns about everyone's safety then in the prison facility,
Speaker 3: because certainly a lot of people believe and certainly other
Speaker 3: inmates believe, she has a target on her back because
Speaker 3: of the information she potentially knows. So they feel like
Speaker 3: all of their lives might be endangered by her being there.
Speaker 2: And I didn't think of it that way, but we
Speaker 2: have to as we keep talking about her.
Speaker 1: She's a socialite, she came from this family, and you
Speaker 1: see the pictures of her, she's smiling, she's being hugged,
Speaker 1: or she's doing whatever. But a reminder here, this is
Speaker 1: someone that the victim's family call a monster. This is
Speaker 1: someone who is serving time for being the one who
Speaker 1: would find, recruit, groom and then serve up essentially these
Speaker 1: young women, under age girl.
Speaker 4: I was just going to say, you say young women,
Speaker 4: we're talking minors on.
Speaker 1: A platter to these men. This is not just someone
Speaker 1: convicted of some small crime. She is convicted of doing
Speaker 1: some really horrific stuff.
Speaker 3: Virginia Robert Giuffrey was working at mar A Lago at
Speaker 3: the spa there.
Speaker 4: She was sixteen.
Speaker 3: Years old, according to Virginia and according to court records,
Speaker 3: and that is when Elaine Maxwell found her groomed her,
Speaker 3: and as you pointed, and you said this, and there's
Speaker 3: no better way to put served her up to Jeffrey
Speaker 3: Epstein and the men in his circle, it's disgusting.
Speaker 1: And they talk about the possibility. I mean, I say,
Speaker 1: there are names and people and victims we know that
Speaker 1: came forward, but they're talking about potential hundreds and some
Speaker 1: say even into the thousands of girls who were impacted
Speaker 1: by what was happening in this circle. So as we
Speaker 1: talk about this, and she's being moved from one cushy
Speaker 1: place to a cushier place, and we talk about she
Speaker 1: can make these deals, and it sounds like she's just
Speaker 1: any typical inmate. She's nine folks, she's someone that certainly
Speaker 1: these families and just going strictly by the convictions. This
Speaker 1: is some awful stuff.
Speaker 3: And here's another way to look at it. Jeffrey Epstein reportedly,
Speaker 3: we're told died by suicide. So he never had his
Speaker 3: day in court. The victims never got justice in the
Speaker 3: way we expected in this country. They never got to
Speaker 3: actually see him convicted and put behind bars for his crimes.
Speaker 3: So Glene Maxwell is truly the only person who has
Speaker 3: actually been punished and she as she should, because her
Speaker 3: crimes weren't just because of or surrounding Epstein, but because
Speaker 3: of her own personal choices and actions and facilitating what
Speaker 3: Epstein and others did. But the point is, would you
Speaker 3: trade or transfer some of her punishment to then be
Speaker 3: able to point the finger or prosecute other people who
Speaker 3: might be involved.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's really the trade off, right.
Speaker 3: So she might get some lessened sentence or the worst
Speaker 3: case scenario for the victims, be pardoned altogether, but in
Speaker 3: an effort to then find out who else was involved,
Speaker 3: who else might be held accountable.
Speaker 1: That's a prosecutor's call. I mean, I don't know I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here as a moral call there. I mean, what
Speaker 1: do you to get more and maybe even more direct
Speaker 1: offenders if you will. I'm not saying she indirections right there.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying, what about men who were potentially the abusers?
Speaker 1: Is that what we're talking about, is that potentially going
Speaker 1: to get some of those people punished in off the street.
Speaker 1: And I think, I don't know, you have to listen
Speaker 1: to have to consider that before a victim, a victim's family,
Speaker 1: right now, you want to roll the dice there knowing
Speaker 1: that this is the only person right now. It's a
Speaker 1: tough call who's been punished.
Speaker 3: But the victims and the victims' families have all been
Speaker 3: very outspoken and very clear they don't want her to
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Speaker 3: Amy and TJ, and we are discussing today this mysterious
Speaker 3: move without any qualification, without any real acknowledgment or explanation,
Speaker 3: convicted sex child sex trafficker Glene Maxwell has been moved
Speaker 3: from a minimum security prison in Florida to a even
Speaker 3: more minimum security prison camp in Texas, and no one
Speaker 3: has explained why she was moved to a cushier It's
Speaker 3: called a club fed is what a lot of folks
Speaker 3: refer to this particular prison camp.
Speaker 1: It's almost like, uh, free range prisoners. They get to
Speaker 1: rome and in some of these places don't even have
Speaker 1: fences up, even perimeters around. So they keep them in dorms,
Speaker 1: they say, and they have bunk beds, suites if you
Speaker 1: will over there. They consider them dormitories where they're being capped.
Speaker 1: So this is a much different place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we can get into some of the specifics of
Speaker 3: what this particular prison camp is like, just so you
Speaker 3: can get an idea of why some of the families
Speaker 3: of the victims and the victims themselves are so outraged
Speaker 3: that she's now been placed into this facility. We'll go
Speaker 3: ahead and read the whole statement that was written by
Speaker 3: This was written by Virginia Robert Giffrey's family, in addition
Speaker 3: to other victims.
Speaker 4: They all collaborated and put out this one statement.
Speaker 3: It says, it is with horror and outrage that we
Speaker 3: object the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker Gallaiine Maxwell has received.
Speaker 3: Gallainne Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor
Speaker 3: children on multiple occasions, and she should never be any leniency. Yet,
Speaker 3: without any notification to the Maxwell victims, the government overnight
Speaker 3: has moved Maxwell to a minimum security luxury prison in Texas.
Speaker 3: This is the justice system failing victims right before our eyes.
Speaker 3: The American public should be enraged by the preferential treatment
Speaker 3: being given to a pedophile and a criminally charged child
Speaker 3: sex offender. The Trump administration should not credit a word
Speaker 3: Maxwell says, as the government itself sought charges against Maxwell
Speaker 3: for being a serial liar, this move smacks of.
Speaker 4: A cover up. The victims deserve better.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you could take an issue with
Speaker 1: one word of anything they said there, and it's I
Speaker 1: know they're upset by the preferential treatment. She's not getting
Speaker 1: preferential treatment of course, because she is a person of
Speaker 1: wealth or status or she's buying her way. She's right
Speaker 1: now holding some cards that others want to get their
Speaker 1: hands on, and she seems to be playing those cards,
Speaker 1: and one of them was to get a better sleeping arrangement. Essentially,
Speaker 1: it does. It's the cover up part. I'm curious.
Speaker 3: It's just, oh, the irony, just in order to try
Speaker 3: and get more transparenty transparency and more information. It feels
Speaker 3: like they're just covering up more so it just ends
Speaker 3: up making matters worse for folks who are already frustrated.
Speaker 3: So to get an idea of this new prison that
Speaker 3: she's in, So, yes, dormitory style facilities, that's what you said,
Speaker 3: two people bunk bed cells.
Speaker 4: I guess you could call.
Speaker 3: Them that, but more like dorms. They're expected to work.
Speaker 3: But they have a range of educational programs available to
Speaker 3: all the inmates. They can take classes on business skills
Speaker 3: and foreign languages. They can place sports, attend religious services,
Speaker 3: access televisions. They have visitors on the weekends and holidays,
Speaker 3: and they have limited physical conduct with those visit. So
Speaker 3: that is certainly interesting. But yeah, they're given an hour
Speaker 3: for meal, time just to roam around. And as you
Speaker 3: pointed out TJ, a lot of the areas don't even
Speaker 3: have fences.
Speaker 1: I mean that lets you know how minimum the security
Speaker 1: is that some of these places they don't consider any
Speaker 1: of these folks necessarily be a threat to the community
Speaker 1: or necessarily a flight risk. Elizabeth Holmes famously is being
Speaker 1: housed there. I didn't know the other Jenshaw from the.
Speaker 3: Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. Again, these are white
Speaker 3: collar crimes that these two women are charged or were
Speaker 3: convicted of. So again, no violent prisoners there except for
Speaker 3: now Glene Maxwell. They even had some pictures of Elizabeth
Speaker 3: Holmes working out with some weights, just walking around the
Speaker 3: grounds there.
Speaker 4: That they have a gym, they have yoga.
Speaker 3: Classes, they have a puppy program where prisoners can train
Speaker 3: dogs with an outside company and earn money doing so.
Speaker 3: So that just gives you an idea. This doesn't feel
Speaker 3: like this isn't Shawshank redemption. They're not in these locked
Speaker 3: and sales in these harsh environments. You know, we think
Speaker 3: of that, we think about what Diddy Sean Diddy Combs
Speaker 3: is frustrated by his situation, the prison he's being housed
Speaker 3: in Brooklyn right now. And look what's happening to Glene Maxwell.
Speaker 1: So if you're a family member of a victim, this
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like punishment for the only person who has
Speaker 1: been convicted of harming your family member. So and again
Speaker 1: for virginia Raised family, I mean, she took her own
Speaker 1: life not too many months ago, so this is really
Speaker 1: fresh for them, and we're talking just months and now,
Speaker 1: just months later, talking about the person that they probably
Speaker 1: do hold responsible for the pain their family members and
Speaker 1: her death now to see, she's she's making deals.
Speaker 3: From Virginia's family's perspective, if Glene Maxwell had not set
Speaker 3: her sights on their family member, on Virginia, on their sister,
Speaker 3: on their daughter, on their loved one, Virginia would still
Speaker 3: be alive today. Who knows what trajectory her life would
Speaker 3: have taken. But they single handedly hold Glame Maxwell responsible
Speaker 3: for what happened to Virginia, and rightfully so, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, she's it now. She's the only one here that
Speaker 1: we know of to hold it responsible. And I mean
Speaker 1: prosecutor said Jeffrey Epstein could not have done anything he
Speaker 1: did without her. Now, every crime, everything he had a
Speaker 1: hand in having to do with any sexual assault or
Speaker 1: grooming of a young lady. Glame Maxwell made it happen.
Speaker 4: You know what's also just so disgusting.
Speaker 3: Forget the fact that yes, they moved her, but to
Speaker 3: not even notify the families ahead of time, to not
Speaker 3: at least have given them a heads up, to not
Speaker 3: at least have said, hey, we know this is going
Speaker 3: to feel and sound awful for you to hear about,
Speaker 3: but we want to let you know what's happening, and
Speaker 3: we want to let you know we have a plan,
Speaker 3: and this is all in an effort to seek further
Speaker 3: justice for you or for the people you love, and
Speaker 3: at least give them that. Wouldn't that have been something
Speaker 3: It blows my mind the lack of respect so many
Speaker 3: victims are given in our justice system, period, but certainly
Speaker 3: when it comes to this case, there was a mistake.
Speaker 1: Maybe somebody who's looking back and go, oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: I can't believe we and who knows how all this
Speaker 1: went down. I'm not excusing at all. You are one
Speaker 1: hundred percent right, that is what we would hope would
Speaker 1: have happened. That getting overlooked in this heated in byer
Speaker 1: where they're worried about paperwork and sneaking around and make
Speaker 1: sure nobody leaks and getting a deal done and all
Speaker 1: this human beings, humanity and victims probably was not at
Speaker 1: the top of mind, unfortunately. And isn't that what they
Speaker 1: always say, that something you're putting something before the victims,
Speaker 1: something comes before the victims. And once again that was
Speaker 1: probably the case, right.
Speaker 3: These victims weren't believed, they weren't heard for years and
Speaker 3: years and years, and so this is just a rubbing
Speaker 3: salt in the wound, and that's even a light statement.
Speaker 3: But we will certainly keep our eye on this developing story.
Speaker 3: Someone's got to speak at some point. It seems like
Speaker 3: someone has to acknowledge this or at least explain why
Speaker 3: this is happening. We know there are some more developments
Speaker 3: coming this week with lawyers for Maxwell and Epstein and
Speaker 3: for their alleged victims are supposed to be putting in
Speaker 3: their arguments into court this week saying whether or not
Speaker 3: they think those documents should be unsealed.
Speaker 4: In the Epstein case.
Speaker 3: So there are going to be many more headlines coming
Speaker 3: from this story, and we will of course stay on.
Speaker 4: Top of it all.
Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to us today. I'm Amy Robach
Speaker 3: alongside my partner TJ Holmes. Have a wonderful Monday.
Speaker 4: Everybody,