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60 - PLACES/LANDMARKS/9 East 71st Street.md

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ By 2011 the house was held by Nine East 71st Street Corporation, which the Virgi
 
 Maple's annual reports to the Office of the [[Lieutenant Governor of the Virgin Islands]], signed by Epstein and Kahn under the attestation "ALL STATEMENTS CONTAINED IN THIS APPLICATION, AND ANY ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS, ARE TRUE AND CORRECT," never listed the house or its expenses for 2011 through 2016. For 2017 Maple reported cash of 18,281 dollars as its only asset and expenses of 150 dollars while paying 327,497.48 dollars and 6,487.04 dollars in New York City property taxes; for 2018 it reported cash of 21,265 dollars and expenses of 300 dollars while paying 336,471.87 dollars. The territory alleged that Indyke and Kahn "knew or should have known that their attestations were false" and that the transfers "were made for the sole purpose of sheltering these assets from collection." When Epstein died in August 2019, the estate valued its shares in the corporation holding the townhouse at 56 million dollars.[^2]
 
-Epstein listed Manhattan as his residence in legal filings, and a 2018 federal complaint by investors in [[Towers Financial Corporation]] gave his residence as 9 East 71st Street; the townhouse functioned as the hub of his New York operations, with staff, a large household and the art and furnishings later catalogued during the federal search.[^7][^8] After his death a plaintiff identified as "VE" sued the estate's co-executors, Nine East 71st Street Corporation, [[Financial Trust Company]] and NES, LLC in the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York|Southern District of New York]] (No. 1:19-cv-07625); all were represented by Troutman Sanders, the firm that had defended Epstein against Towers claims.[^9]
+Epstein listed Manhattan as his residence in legal filings, and a 2018 federal complaint by investors in [[Towers Financial Corporation]] gave his residence as 9 East 71st Street; the townhouse functioned as the hub of his New York operations, with staff, a large household and the art and furnishings later catalogued during the federal search.[^7][^8] After his death a plaintiff identified as "VE" sued the estate's co-executors, Nine East 71st Street Corporation, [[Financial Trust Company]] and NES, LLC in the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York|Southern District of New York]] (No. 1:19-cv-07625); all were represented by [[Troutman Sanders]], the firm that had defended Epstein against Towers claims.[^9]
 
 ### Interior Accounts and Surveillance
 

60 - PLACES/LANDMARKS/Federal Prison Camp Bryan.md

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+---
+category: "Landmark"
+tags:
+  - Place
+  - Prison
+  - BureauOfPrisons
+  - GhislaineMaxwell
+  - JeffreyEpstein
+  - Texas
+  - CongressionalOversight
+alias:
+  - FPC Bryan
+  - Bryan Federal Prison Camp
+  - Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan
+summary: "Minimum-security federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, to which Ghislaine Maxwell was moved in August 2025 after her Justice Department interview, drawing congressional inquiries into the transfer and her treatment."
+location: "1100 Ursuline Avenue, Bryan, Texas"
+created: 2026-09-25
+updated: 2026-09-25
+relations:
+  - type: owned
+    with: "[[Federal Bureau of Prisons]]"
+    reverse: true
+    fn: 1
+  - type: head_of
+    with: "[[Tanisha Hall]]"
+    reverse: true
+    role: "warden"
+    fn: 1
+  - type: investigated
+    with: "[[Jamie Raskin]]"
+    reverse: true
+    start: 2025-08-12
+    fn: 1
+  - type: investigated
+    with: "[[Sheldon Whitehouse]]"
+    reverse: true
+    start: 2025-08-07
+    fn: 3
+  - type: investigated
+    with: "[[Robert Garcia]]"
+    reverse: true
+    start: 2026-01-23
+    fn: 7
+---
+
+Federal Prison Camp Bryan is a minimum-security facility of the [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] at 1100 Ursuline Avenue in [[Bryan, Texas]]. Its warden in 2025 and 2026 was Dr. [[Tanisha Hall]]. [[Ghislaine Maxwell]], serving a 240-month sentence for sex trafficking, was moved there from the low-security prison in [[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]] on August 1, 2025, a week after Deputy Attorney General [[Todd Blanche]] interviewed her under limited immunity. Bureau policy ordinarily bars prisoners with sex-offense histories from minimum-security placement. Senators and House members wrote to the bureau, the camp's warden and the President about the transfer, and whistleblower accounts relayed by House Judiciary and Oversight Democrats described preferential treatment of Maxwell, retaliation against inmates and staff, and sexual abuse of inmates at the camp.[^1][^2][^3]
+
+### The Transfer
+
+Blanche questioned Maxwell in Tallahassee on July 24 and 25, 2025. On August 7, 2025 Senator [[Sheldon Whitehouse]] wrote to Bureau of Prisons Director William K. Marshall III that the interview was "unusual" because such interviews "would ordinarily be conducted by an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent or member of the local U.S. Attorney's Office, not the Deputy Attorney General." Quoting the bureau's Program Statement 5100.008, he wrote: "By default, Bureau policy requires individuals like Ms. Maxwell, whose criminal history involves sex offenses, to be placed, at a minimum, at low-security facilities because they 'are not appropriate for placement at an institution which would permit inmate access to the community (i.e., MINIMUM security).'" Ordinarily "Bureau officials in Tallahassee would need to request waiver of this policy as part of their request to transfer Ms. Maxwell to a minimum-security facility, subject to approval by Bureau officials in Grand Prairie, Texas." He noted that the factors of 18 U.S.C. 3621(b) "do not include whether the person can provide the President with political favors," and requested records of the transfer involving Blanche's office, of any Public Safety Factor waiver, of any waiver of the standard transfer procedures, and of Maxwell's transfer code, security point score, custody level and management variables as of June 1 and August 1, 2025, by August 28.[^2][^3]
+
+On August 11, 2025 the journalist Allison Gill wrote on her newsletter Mueller, She Wrote that she had reviewed an electronic file, provided by an anonymous source, purporting to show Maxwell's bureau records: a transfer code "308" described as "Lesser Security Transfer"; a security point score of 27; a Public Safety Factor entry reading "SEX OFFN"; a management variable reading "PSF WAV," which Gill read as a waiver of the sex-offense factor; and a custody level of "OUT." Gill wrote, "I do not have any confirmation that she has worked outside the facility." Her account rests on the anonymous source and the file.[^4]
+
+On August 12, 2025 Representative [[Jamie Raskin]], ranking member of the [[House Committee on the Judiciary]], and other committee Democrats wrote to Attorney General [[Pam Bondi]] and Marshall about the transfer. On November 21, 2025, with no answer to earlier inquiries, Whitehouse, [[Richard Blumenthal]] and [[Adam Schiff]] filed a [[Freedom of Information Act]] request with the bureau for the same categories of records, listing among the offices to be searched the Office of the Attorney General, the Office of the Deputy Attorney General and the [[Office of the Pardon Attorney]].[^1][^5]
+
+### Reported Conditions
+
+On October 30, 2025 Raskin wrote to Warden Hall, citing an October 11 investigation by [[The Wall Street Journal]], that in mid-August "hundreds of inmates were locked down during their usual outdoor recreation time while Ms. Maxwell met with multiple unidentified visitors in the prison chapel," that one inmate reported Maxwell returned "with a smile on her face," saying the meeting "went well," that guards delivered her meals to her dormitory room, and that she was escorted to late-night workouts and allowed to shower after other inmates were confined. He wrote that an inmate who had told a British newspaper that "Human trafficking is a violent crime" was removed from a training program and transferred to the Federal Detention Center in [[Houston]].[^1]
+
+On November 9, 2025 Raskin wrote to President [[Donald Trump]] that "under Dr. Tanisha Hall, the warden of Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan, the federal law enforcement staff working at the camp have been waiting on Ms. Maxwell hand and foot," that her meals were "customized and prepared by federal prison camp staff and then personally delivered to her in her cell by longtime federal employees," and that she was preparing a "Commutation Application." Attributing the account to whistleblower information provided to the committee's minority, he wrote that a top official at the facility had complained he was "sick of having to be Maxwell's bitch," and described the camp as "a facility Ms. Maxwell was actually ineligible to be transferred to due to her convicted sex offender status."[^6]
+
+On January 23, 2026 Raskin and [[Robert Garcia]], ranking member of the [[House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform]], wrote to Bondi and to Acting Inspector General Don R. Berthiaume of the [[Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General]], citing "over a dozen whistleblowers." They wrote that "Ms. Maxwell has been permitted to use a laptop, unsupervised, while at Bryan," that she had "access to staff-only areas to watch CNN by herself," that "the Warden sends out Ms. Maxwell's mail under the Warden's own name," and that the warden "fired those who made protected disclosures to Congress." They reported allegations of "widespread sexual abuse and misconduct," including a guard's instruction to "put her in her place" during a strip search and an inmate told to "deal with it" after reporting a rape. They asked that Hall be made available for a transcribed interview and that the inspector general "initiate an investigation into the reported staff misconduct," and announced a committee visit to the camp.[^7]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Representative Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member, House Committee on the Judiciary, letter to Dr. Tanisha Hall, Warden, Federal Prison Camp Bryan, 1100 Ursuline Avenue, Bryan, TX 77803, October 30, 2025, citing his letter to Pamela J. Bondi and William K. Marshall III of August 12, 2025. https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-10-30-raskin-to-hall-fpcbryan-re-maxwell-1.pdf
+[^2]: United States v. Maxwell, No. 1:20-cr-00330 (S.D.N.Y.), ECF Nos. 784, 785 (July 18, 2025), CourtListener docket 17318376. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17318376/united-states-v-maxwell/ ; "Ghislaine Maxwell moved to federal prison camp in Texas," *CNN,* August 1, 2025. https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/politics/ghislaine-maxwell-federal-prison-texas
+[^3]: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, letter to William K. Marshall III, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, August 7, 2025. https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2025-08-07-Letter-to-BOP-Maxwell-Transfer.pdf
+[^4]: Allison Gill, "EXCLUSIVE: I Have Ghislaine Maxwell's Security Score, Custody Level, Transfer Code, and Sex Offender Waiver," *Mueller, She Wrote,* August 11, 2025. https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-i-have-ghislaine-maxwells
+[^5]: Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Blumenthal and Adam B. Schiff, Freedom of Information Act request to the FOIA Officer, Federal Bureau of Prisons, November 21, 2025. https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Maxwell.pdf
+[^6]: Representative Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member, House Committee on the Judiciary, letter to President Donald J. Trump, November 9, 2025. https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-11-09-raskin-to-trump-wh-re-maxwell.pdf
+[^7]: House Judiciary Committee Democrats, "Ranking Members Raskin, Garcia Demand Answers for Rampant Sexual Abuse and Misconduct Uncovered at FPC Bryan; Announce Congressional Oversight Visit," press release, January 23, 2026. https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/ranking-members-raskin-garcia-demand-answers-for-rampant-sexual-abuse-and-misconduct-uncovered-at-fpc-bryan-announce-congressional-oversight-visit

60 - PLACES/LANDMARKS/Little St. James.md

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ The sale ended Epstein's decades-long association with the U.S. Virgin Islands,
 
 On November 22, 2011, a year after Epstein registered in the territory as a sex offender, he incorporated Nautilus, Inc. in the Virgin Islands, with himself as president and director, his lawyer [[Darren Indyke]] as secretary, and his accountant [[Richard Kahn]] as treasurer, and a stated purpose of "holding property for personal use." A quitclaim deed recorded on December 30, 2011 moved Little St. James from L.S.J., LLC to Nautilus for "TEN DOLLARS ($10.00) and other good and valuable consideration." Most of Epstein's other territorial companies were created in 2011 and 2012, among them LSJ Employees, LLC (registered October 27, 2011 "to provide services"), followed by LSJ Emergency, LLC (December 2, 2015).[^10]
 
-The island was served by aircraft held through companies that listed Epstein's pilot [[Larry Visoski]] as a manager or member. Hyperion Air, LLC, organized October 19, 2012 with Epstein and Visoski as managers, owned a Bell helicopter (N331JE) and a Keystone helicopter (N722JE) that the territory alleged Epstein used "to transport young women and underage girls between St. Thomas and Little St. James." Plan D, LLC, which owned the Gulfstream N212JE, listed Visoski as its sole manager until a July 31, 2019 annual report named Epstein as the principal.[^10]
+The island was served by aircraft held through companies that listed Epstein's pilot [[Larry Visoski]] as a manager or member. [[Hyperion Air|Hyperion Air, LLC]], organized October 19, 2012 with Epstein and Visoski as managers, owned a Bell helicopter (N331JE) and a Keystone helicopter (N722JE) that the territory alleged Epstein used "to transport young women and underage girls between St. Thomas and Little St. James." Plan D, LLC, which owned the Gulfstream N212JE, listed Visoski as its sole manager until a July 31, 2019 annual report named Epstein as the principal.[^10]
 
 ### Verification, Staff, and Records
 

60 - PLACES/LANDMARKS/Zorro Ranch.md

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ The [[New Mexico Department of Public Safety]] wrote to Epstein in July 2010 inf
 
 [[Gary King]], son of the governor whose family sold Epstein the ranch, was elected New Mexico Attorney General in 2006. That year he received 15,000 dollars for his campaign from an Epstein entity called The Zorro Trust, which he returned after Epstein's first arrest in Florida. In 2010, the year the Department of Public Safety told the sheriff that Epstein need not register, a staff member in King's office used official government email to arrange an afternoon meeting for Epstein "with AG Gary King" at a Santa Fe restaurant. The FBI had interviewed the ranch manager in 2007 and learned that Epstein frequently brought women to the ranch and invited local masseuses; whether the information was shared with state officials is one of the questions before the legislature's truth commission.[^14]
 
-King won the Democratic nomination for governor on June 3, 2014, with [[Deb Haaland]] as his running mate. Two days later Epstein's assistant told King's fundraiser that Epstein was ready to support him, and a June 18 email thanked Epstein for his "personal commitment to raise $50,000 for my campaign," noting that "each separate corporation is considered to be a separate giver." Epstein's lawyer [[Darren Indyke]] told Epstein that King's campaign website pledged to increase prosecutions of offenses against children and suggested giving through companies to avoid "additional press coverage regarding or accepting of your contribution"; Epstein told him to send the money through "co s or trusts." The campaign deposited 5,000 dollars from JEGE LLC, an Epstein aviation company registered in the Virgin Islands, on July 7, 5,200 dollars more from JEGE on September 1, and 5,000 dollars from Maple, Inc., the company holding Epstein's Manhattan house, on September 8.[^14][^15]
+King won the Democratic nomination for governor on June 3, 2014, with [[Deb Haaland]] as his running mate. Two days later Epstein's assistant told King's fundraiser that Epstein was ready to support him, and a June 18 email thanked Epstein for his "personal commitment to raise $50,000 for my campaign," noting that "each separate corporation is considered to be a separate giver." Epstein's lawyer [[Darren Indyke]] told Epstein that King's campaign website pledged to increase prosecutions of offenses against children and suggested giving through companies to avoid "additional press coverage regarding or accepting of your contribution"; Epstein told him to send the money through "co s or trusts." The campaign deposited 5,000 dollars from [[JEGE, Inc.|JEGE LLC]], an Epstein aviation company registered in the Virgin Islands, on July 7, 5,200 dollars more from JEGE on September 1, and 5,000 dollars from Maple, Inc., the company holding Epstein's Manhattan house, on September 8.[^14][^15]
 
 On August 21, 2014 an email to Epstein said King "wanted to speak to you about possibly using your plane" to fly from Santa Fe on the evening of September 8 to a breakfast in Washington. A trip sheet shows King and Haaland among five passengers on a flight chartered by JEGE LLC from Santa Fe Municipal Airport to Washington on September 8; the campaign reported paying 22,060 dollars to the charter company Injet, and at 5:36 a.m. on September 9 a charter booker emailed Epstein's accountant [[Richard Kahn]] and pilot [[Larry Visoski]] that the plane was "on the ground at IAD." The same day King told the Santa Fe New Mexican he would return Epstein's donations; the campaign announced it would return more than 36,500 dollars, but its finance reports show no evidence that refunds were made. In February 2026 King said, "We didn't have any reason to know or believe that it was a plane that was owned by Jeffrey Epstein. My staff had told me that Bill Richardson was helping us to arrange for an airplane," and later, "I probably wouldn't have flown on it if I'd known it was a Jeffrey Epstein jet." A spokesperson for Haaland said she "never had any interaction with him and the way in which the plane was chartered was never communicated to her."[^14][^15]