"What they're saying: In a statement addressed to the DOJ's acting director, Schnitt said that he had no idea he was being recorded and that he met the O'Keefe reporter - who he said was pretending to be an au pair - on Hinge. Schnitt said that the comments to the reporter were based on what he had "learned in the media" and not from his work at the DOJ."
"Maxwell's transfer "is against BOP policy because she's a convicted sex offender," Schnitt said in the video. "The DOJ's offering her something to keep her mouth shut." Maxwell's transfer was controversial, and potentially against Bureau of Prisons policy - sex offenders must be in at least a low-level security prison unless they receive a waiver, and she was moved to a minimum-security one."
Schnitt was recorded saying Republicans or conservatives would be redacted from files while liberal, Democratic people would remain, and calling Attorney General Pam Bondi "a yes person" who "wants whatever Trump wants." He said he had no idea he was being recorded, met the reporter on Hinge who he alleged pretended to be an au pair, and told the reporter his comments came from what he had "learned in the media," not from DOJ work. The video also included claims that Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer violated BOP policy and suggested the DOJ offered her incentives to remain silent. The recording was produced by James O'Keefe's organization.
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