UBS Wired Nearly $8 Million Toward Ghislaine Maxwell’s Bradford Hideout After a Grand Jury Subpoena

Bradford, New Hampshire, still has a stone at the driveway that says Tucked Away. Ghislaine Maxwell paid $1,070,750 cash for the 156-acre timber compound at 338 East Washington Road in December 2019, four months after Jeffrey Epstein died in a Manhattan jail cell. FBI agents took her off the property on July 2, 2020. In 2026 the same acreage sold for just under $2.4 million. By late May the new owners were advertising an antique farmhouse on the grounds for rent. Realtor.com printed the listing. The AEGIS Alliance is more interested in the wire that bought the keys.

The rent listing is a punchline. The banking record is the story. A convicted recruiter for a trafficking network used a Swiss bank, a trust, and a brokerage account to turn liquid wealth into a locked gate in a town that did not know her name. The house then appreciated. The farmhouse now solicits weekend guests. The conviction stayed put. The wire is why any of that was possible.

UBS Said It Was Done With Her, Then Moved the Money Anyway

Justice Department files released with the Epstein material map the purchase. On November 12, 2019, UBS sent nearly $8 million from an account tied to the Montpelier Trust — Maxwell as grantor, Scott Borgerson as trustee — to a TD Ameritrade account in Borgerson’s orbit. The funds stepped through another trust and closed the house. An April 12, 2022, DOJ chart is titled with the Bradford address. Reuters reconstructed the path from those files. The chart is not a rumor. It is a federal flowchart with a street number on it.

On August 1, 2019, UBS emailed Maxwell that it would cut her off within a month and gave no reason. On August 16, a U.S. grand jury subpoena demanded the bank’s entire Maxwell file in a sealed child-sex-trafficking investigation. The November wire still went out while UBS was talking to the FBI about how to answer that subpoena. The bank had run as much as $19 million for her across cash, shares, and hedge funds, with two relationship managers on the account. It opened those relationships in 2014, the period when JPMorgan was shoving Epstein out. After her arrest UBS filed a suspicious-activity report covering more than $18 million that had already moved from Maxwell-linked accounts to Borgerson between 2014 and 2020.

Tom Kirchmaier of the London School of Economics said banks told about a secret criminal inquiry usually hunt for any public hook to freeze the money. Senator Ron Wyden’s shorter version: ultra-wealthy clients can walk across the street, so the banks look away. He called Maxwell « an essential part » of Epstein’s trafficking operation, not a side character. The same logic sits behind the Bank of America survivors settlement that Judge Jed Rakoff finished approving in August. A cutoff email that is followed by an $8 million transfer is not a compliance program. It is a courtesy note.

Janet Marshall Bought a Privacy-Lover’s Dream

At the showing, an associate and a woman using the names Scott and Janet Marshall, British accents attached, told the agent she was a journalist who needed quiet. Granite Realty LLC, stood up the month before closing, signed the papers. Neighbors saw a long driveway, a locked gate, and almost no traffic. Former British military contractors worked security. When agents announced themselves at the door on July 2, prosecutors say Maxwell moved for another room; they breached. On a desk they found a phone wrapped in foil. Police Chief Edward Shaughnessy walked the team in. Locals later told reporters they had no idea who had been living behind the trees. That was the point of the trees.

A foil-wrapped phone is not a rural hobby. It is a person who knows devices ping towers. The house was chosen for the same reason the wire was useful: distance from a camera and a clerk. Cash at the closing table kept a mortgage underwriter from asking why a newly formed LLC wanted 156 acres of timber and a gate. Trusts kept Maxwell’s name off the easy search. UBS kept the liquidity moving after it had already drafted the breakup email. Each layer did a job. Together they bought months.

The House Made Money. The Conviction Stayed Put

Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of recruiting and grooming underage girls for Epstein and drew 20 years. The Supreme Court refused her appeal in October 2025. She is still filing post-conviction papers and hunting clemency while Todd Blanche, now confirmed attorney general, has been grilled over a prison transfer and an interview with her. The Bradford assessment sat near $1.83 million with taxes around $30,000. New Hampshire’s $2 million-plus sales jumped from 148 listings in 2016 to 468 in 2025, per association president Josh Greenwald. Association communications VP Dave Cummings said the estate’s value rose about 124 percent from 2019 through 2025, ahead of the state’s roughly 89 percent average. Bradford’s median listing while it sat on the market was about $520,000.

Notoriety was supposed to poison the price. It did not. A trafficking lieutenant’s last address is now a rental with a mountain view. Buyers in a hot second-home market treated the history as a curiosity instead of a contaminant. That is a real-estate fact and a moral one. The AEGIS Alliance will keep that banking timeline next to the document fights still open in Washington, the original arrest file, and the crime news desk.

Banks like to describe these episodes as isolated relationship-management failures. The dates do not support the isolation story. UBS opened Maxwell while other shops were closing Epstein. It emailed a cutoff after Epstein was dead. It received a grand jury subpoena two weeks later. It still moved nearly $8 million in November. It filed the SAR after the arrest, which is when filing is cheapest. Kirchmaier described the professional instinct. Wyden described the incentive. Both descriptions fit the flowchart with the Bradford address on it.

Scott Borgerson, the trustee named on the Montpelier paperwork, was Maxwell’s husband. That fact does not make the wire innocent. It makes the routing family-sized. Money left a Maxwell grantor trust at UBS, landed near a Borgerson brokerage relationship, and closed a house that prosecutors later treated as a fugitive’s den. After the arrest the bank’s SAR covered more than $18 million that had already traveled that corridor over six years. Filing after the handcuffs is how a shop builds a paper trail without building a stop. Readers who want the wider banking file can start with The AEGIS Alliance coverage of the Bank of America trafficking suit and the U.S. news desk.

A bank that emails a cutoff and then moves $8 million is not confused. It is ranking clients. Maxwell was still a client when the subpoena landed. The house sold. The farmhouse rented. The conviction stayed. The AEGIS Alliance will keep the wire on the page even if the driveway stone now advertises quiet weekends.