Elie Honig on Maxwell’s Move to Texas: This Comes After Her Meeting with DoJ Blanche, Giving Her a ‘Substantial Benefit’

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HONIG: “Yeah, I guess I would say a less bad prison, Phil. Look, there‘s an outside chance, a minuscule chance that this is a coincidence, but I highly doubt it. BOP, the Bureau of Prisons does occasionally move prisoners around. But look at the timing. I mean, just days after that meeting Paula talked about, face to face with the deputy attorney general. So what this tells me is really a couple things. First of all, clearly DoJ, Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, were at least satisfied with what Maxwell told them. If they believe she lied, it‘s hard to believe they‘d be giving her a benefit. And that‘s sort of the second thing here. They are giving her a substantial benefit. I promise you, every one of the tens of thousands of current federal inmates would love to be sent to a lower designation prison. And that‘s what happened here. She was at low security, and now she‘s at what we would call a camp, which is the lowest possible security. So clearly, DoJ is delivering her some benefit. And clearly, they have some faith in what she told them. The question is, will this be the only benefit she gets or will they deliver further benefits as we move along?”