TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Convicted Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved to the Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
FCI Tallahassee is a low-security federal correctional institution located on the city’s eastern outskirts, according to WTXL.
Before the move, Maxwell, 60, had been jailed in a federal facility in New York City. According to the Tallahassee Democrat, Judge Alison J. Nathan recommended that Maxwell be sent to FCI Danbury in Connecticut.
The bureau's decision to send Maxwell to federal prison in Tallahassee was against the recommendation of Judge Alison J. Nathan, who oversaw Maxwell's trial, according to court records filed in the Southern District of New York. https://t.co/NYkzmeQpr3
— Tallahassee Democrat (@TDOnline) July 25, 2022
In June, a judge sentenced Maxwell to serve 20 years in prison after a jury had convicted her late last year for helping the financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls, according to The Associated Press.
The allegations against Epstein first surfaced in 2005.
Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial, sexually abused children hundreds of times over a decade, exploiting vulnerable girls as young as 14. Prosecutors said he couldn’t have done so without the help of Maxwell, his longtime companion.
The sentence was shorter than the term sought by prosecutors.
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