Workers at the Texas federal prison camp housing Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell have been fired for leaking emails in 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 documents needed 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.”
“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 News Nov. 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.
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.”
A spokeswoman for House Judiciary Committee Democrats insisted to The Post 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.”
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