Maxwell was recently transferred to a minimum-security prison in Bryan, Texas, days after meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. Maxwell's lawyer did not give a reason why she was moved and the Department of Justice declined a request for comment from the Washington Post, which first reported on the transfer.

Maxwell, an associate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was convicted of sex trafficking and other charges and sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022, which she was serving at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, until her recent move to a federal prison camp in Texas. She is appealing her conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The convicted sex trafficker fears “hearsay” in the testimony will wreck her chances of winning an appeal—assuming the president does not just pardon her.