Billionaire Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Goes Free

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Postby Grizzly » Tue Dec 03, 2019 9:45 pm

All of which are being disappeared in realtime.


^^^^ THIS...!!
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Postby RocketMan » Wed Dec 04, 2019 4:26 am

If/as someone on here is proficient enough, could they please record it? Couldja? Plz? Pretty plz with a cherry on top? :lol2:

JackRiddler » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:11 am wrote:According to this it will stream on Saturday and Sunday, but maybe it won't be stored.

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Postby RocketMan » Tue Dec 10, 2019 2:28 pm

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DEPRAVED Jeffrey Epstein, his alleged pimp Ghislaine Maxwell and disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein grin at Princess Beatrice’s Windsor Castle party.

The astonishing image, obtained exclusively by The Sun on Sunday, shows how the trio were invited into the seat of royal power by Prince Andrew.
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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Goes Free

Postby cptmarginal » Tue Dec 10, 2019 2:49 pm

Wow.
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Postby cptmarginal » Tue Dec 10, 2019 2:58 pm

It just hit me: aren't those matching Eyes Wide Shut costumes? Tom Cruise in a tuxedo, the naval officer, and the Venetian mask.
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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Goes Free

Postby JackRiddler » Tue Dec 10, 2019 3:07 pm

cptmarginal » Tue Dec 10, 2019 1:58 pm wrote:It just hit me: aren't those matching Eyes Wide Shut costumes? Tom Cruise in a tuxedo, the naval officer, and the Venetian mask.


Yes, my thought.

Bit of a joke on their part, since this was their profession, if surely not as "glamorous" as the party in the movie.
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Postby Belligerent Savant » Tue Dec 10, 2019 3:26 pm

^^^^

More depraved, rather. And also, not for photo ops. The press wouldn't have access to those parties.
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Highly recommend this video.
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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Goes Free

Postby Cordelia » Tue Dec 10, 2019 5:34 pm

My first thought was that it must be photo-shopped, but what do I know. The fam at same said party:

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“The York family at Windsor Castle ahead of Princess Beatrice’s 18th Birthday Party for which the theme was 1881. 1881 was selected because Princess Beatrice was born at 8.18pm on 8/8/1988....
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^^^She must have lifted Tom's mask from Nicole's pillow. (They look like a fun lot; wonder if The Queen was there.)
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Postby RocketMan » Wed Dec 11, 2019 4:03 am

Yes, it's indeed very powerful stuff.

"It was a wicked time, it was a really scary time in my life. I had just been abused by a member of the Royal Family. I couldn't comprehend how the highest levels of government, powerful people were allowing this to happen. And not only allowing it to happen but participating in it."

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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Goes Free

Postby RocketMan » Thu Dec 12, 2019 9:43 am

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ne-maxwell

‘She was so dangerous’: where in the world is the notorious Ghislaine Maxwell?

Her social standing was such that it would probably be easier to list the influential people to whom Maxwell was not connected. She was close to Bill Clinton and attended Chelsea Clinton’s wedding; she donated to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. There are photographs of Maxwell with Arianna Huffington, Elon Musk and Michael Bloomberg. She knew Donald Trump and members of the Kennedy family. She was connected to the British royal family through Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. Maxwell and Epstein – who loaned Ferguson money to pay off debts – were guests of Andrew at events, including some at Windsor castle, Balmoral and Sandringham.

Prince Andrew, in his recent Newsnight interview, said guests at the parties and dinners in Epstein’s New York mansion included “academics, politicians, people from the United Nations”. But we know now that it was not just influential friends Maxwell cultivated. One of her friends, Euan Rellie, told Tatler: “Every single interesting, pretty, new girl to arrive in New York would end up going for tea with Ghislaine, then being introduced to Jeffrey. She was the acceptable face of a rather mysterious billionaire.”

To New York society, Maxwell legitimised Epstein. As the New Yorker writer Ariel Levy put it in Broken, her podcast about the Epstein case, if you’re a teenage girl and a man approaches you in a car “you know to keep on walking. But if it’s another woman, and she sounds all fancy and well-educated, you’re probably going to get in the car.”
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She also says she could be threatening. “They had video cameras everywhere [in the house], and Ghislaine liked to intimidate by talking about the cameras. She’d say: ‘They’re watching you.’”
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In 1996, Farmer says Maxwell and Epstein sexually assaulted her. She went to the police as well as more than one FBI agent, none of whom took action.
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Kaiser says he has not been able to serve Maxwell with legal papers “because she’s off hiding somewhere”. Does he have any idea where she is?

“No, I wish I did. We’ve looked various places so far to no avail. We thought we had a lead in some compound in Colorado, a very good friend of hers, a wealthy family – we thought she might be there, but we’re not sure. I expect the FBI knows exactly where she is. They may be building a case. I don’t believe they’ve given up on pursuing some of [Epstein’s] enablers and I have to believe that would include Maxwell.”

Sarnoff thinks Maxwell is in a country that does not have an extradition treaty with the US.
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Postby RocketMan » Thu Dec 19, 2019 9:06 am

https://nypost.com/2019/12/18/jeffrey-e ... ncle-jeff/

Jeffrey Epstein wanted to marry ex-girlfriend’s teenage daughter who called him ‘Uncle Jeff’

Jeffrey Epstein once wanted to marry an ex-girlfriend’s teenage daughter who called him “Uncle Jeff,” according to a report.

The late pedophile openly declared his plans to wed Celina Dubin, the daughter of former Miss Sweden Eva Andersson Dubin, who had dated Epstein for 11 years until the early ’90s, sources told Business Insider.

The pair had developed an “especially close relationship” when Celina was just 12, with “Uncle Jeff” at times having “substituted” for her dad, the Palm Beach Post has previously reported, citing a profile made by Epstein’s lawyers.

Epstein was telling associates in 2014 that if he ever married, it would be to Celina — who was 19 at the time, sources told Business Insider.

There is no evidence that Epstein ever had a romantic relationship with Dubin, who is now 24, the site reported, saying his motivation to marry may have been driven by a desire to avoid inheritance taxes.

However, her father, moneyman Glenn Dubin, has long been tied to the Epstein scandal — with longtime accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre naming him in court documents as one of many men she alleges she was forced to have sex with.

He has previously “categorically” denied the allegations through a spokesman, who said he has “evidence disproving them.”

The Dubins, prominent socialites in Epstein’s main hangouts of New York City and Palm Beach, Florida, also defended him when he was released from a Florida jail in 2009 on his earlier child sex conviction, Business Insider previously revealed.

The couple wrote an email to his probation officer saying they were “100% comfortable” with Epstein spending time with Celina, who was then 14, and their two other minor children, Business Insider said.

“I could not ask for a better friend or godfather to my children,” Eva Dubin wrote of her ex, who also spent Thanksgiving at their Florida home the year after his release, the report said.

Eva Dubin had been 20 when she met Epstein in about 1981, and their 11 years together made her his longest-time girlfriend, the report said. They split before the former beauty queen married hedge-funder Glenn Dubin in 1994 and they had three children together.

Their daughter Celina is at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and had been named one of the “15 Hottest Freshmen” by the Harvard Crimson in 2014, three years before she graduated from the university.

Epstein had wanted the then-teen to inherit his fortune — including his private island in the Caribbean — so that he could avoid inheritance taxes, an associate told Business Insider.

He even made her the beneficiary of a trust in 2014, removing her name the following year, the publication said, citing financial documents provided by a second source. That trust now has $50 million in it, the report says, noting it was unclear if Celina ever benefited before her name was removed.

The Dubins distanced themselves from the now-notorious pedophile in a statement to Business Insider.

“Glenn saw him perhaps once a year in large group settings and had no business interactions with him whatsoever after 2007,” Dubin family spokesman Davidson Goldin told the publication.

“Eva and Celina Dubin accepted less than a handful of invitations to gatherings that included the founder of Microsoft and a DNA pioneer.

“The Dubins are horrified by Jeffrey Epstein’s despicable conduct. Had they been aware of it, they would have cut off all ties instantly,” the spokesman insisted.
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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Goes Free

Postby Elvis » Thu Dec 19, 2019 12:56 pm

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Prison footage from Epstein's first suicide attempt has gone missing

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Lauren Frias
Dec 19th 2019 9:09AM


- Surveillance footage outside Jeffrey Epstein's cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center during his first attempted suicide has gone missing, assistant US Attorney Jason Swergold told Southern District of New York Judge Kenneth Karas on Wednesday.

- Epstein, who was facing sex trafficking and conspiracy charges, first attempted to take his own life at the end of July in a cell he shared with Nick Tartaglione, a former police officer who is charged with the murder of four men.

- Epstein died by suicide on August 10.

- Attorneys for Tartaglione requested to retain the footage, following a report that the ex-cop tried to save Epstein's life after he attempted to hang himself in the cell.

- The footage could potentially evidence Tartaglione "good character" for trying to save Epstein's life, as he could face the death penalty if found guilty, according to the New York Daily News report.


Surveillance footage outside Jeffrey Epstein's cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center during his first attempted suicide has gone missing, the New York Daily News reported.

Epstein, who was facing sex trafficking and conspiracy charges, first attempted to take his own life at the end of July, while in a cell he shared with Nick Tartaglione, a former police officer who is charged with the murder of four men.

Epstein was put on suicide watch, but soon after the convicted sex offender was taken off the heightened surveillance he died by suicide on August 10.

Assistant US Attorney Jason Swergold told Southern District of New York Judge Kenneth Karas that the footage of the first attempt could not be found, the New York Daily News reported.

The news outlet also reported that Karas has requested an investigation into locating and finding out what happened to the footage.

The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment. The US Attorney's Office declined to comment to the New York Daily News.

Attorneys for Tartaglione requested that the footage be retained two days after Epstein's attempted suicide attempt, as Tartaglione claimed that he tried to save the disgraced financier's life, who attempted to hang himself in the cell, the New York Daily News reported.

"Nick acted appropriately and admirably," Barket told the news outlet.

The footage could be used by the defense as evidence of Tartaglione's "good character" for allegedly trying to save Epstein's life. Tartaglione could face the death penalty if he is found guilty, according to the New York Daily News report.

The missing footage adds another layer of mystery surrounding Epstein's case, after Barket previously wrote a letter saying that Tartaglione was pressured by prison guards not to speak out.

"The clear message Mr. Tartaglione has received is that if he conveys information about the facility or about the recent suicide, there will be a price to pay," the letter read. "Whether or not the investigators into the suicide chose to interview Mr. Tartaglione about the attempted suicide to which he was witness or about how the facility is run and the conditions under which the inmates are forced to live, the correction officers know he has information potentially very damaging to the very people now charged with guarding him or their coworkers."

Barket told the New York Daily News that Tartaglione still has yet to be questioned in relation to Epstein's suicide.


Read more:

Epstein's jail guards warned his cellmate 'there will be a price to pay' if he talks about Epstein's suicide, lawyer claims

2 officers who were responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein might face criminal charges for falsifying records

Jeffrey Epstein died by apparent suicide in jail. Here's how the prison system makes that possible.

SEE ALSO: Inside Jeffrey Epstein's finances: a billionaire's daughter, tuition payments to models, and the possibility of more money for victims

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Postby Elvis » Mon Jan 06, 2020 7:05 am

Pretty good "60 Minutes" segment on Epstein's...murder. Full video & still pics at CBS link.

NOTE: Shows Epstein's corpse. (presumably.)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-jeffre ... 020-01-05/

60 Minutes investigates the death of Jeffrey Epstein

Jeffrey Epstein was a convicted sex offender and a wealthy financier with powerful friends. 60 Minutes examines the circumstances surrounding his death in a Manhattan federal jail cell. Warning: This report contains graphic images.


In July 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, already a convicted sex offender, was arrested and charged with sex trafficking by federal prosecutors. On August 10, Epstein was found dead in his federal jail cell at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC).

The New York City Medical Examiner's Office ruled Epstein's death a suicide by hanging, but a forensic pathologist who observed the four-hour autopsy on behalf of Epstein's brother, Mark, tells 60 Minutes the evidence released so far points more to murder than suicide in his view. Dr. Michael Baden's key reason: the unusual fractures he saw in Epstein's neck.

Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy: A closer look
The handwritten note found in Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell

"There were fractures of the left, the right thyroid cartilage and the left hyoid bone," Baden said. "I have never seen three fractures like this in a suicidal hanging."

"Going over a thousand jail hangings, suicides in the New York City state prisons over the past 40-50 years, no one had three fractures," Baden said.
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Dr. Michael Baden

The medical examiner's office said it stands "firmly" behind its finding of suicide by hanging, arguing that fractures of the hyoid bone and cartilage can be seen in both suicides and homicides.

Still, questions linger.

Epstein was directing money to be deposited in other inmates' commissary accounts in exchange for protection, sources say, because he feared for his life. But the government says Epstein was suicidal and made his first, failed suicide attempt weeks after he arrived at MCC.

According to a federal indictment, on July 23 Epstein was found "on the floor of his cell with a strip of bedsheet around his neck." The government says it was a failed suicide attempt, but Epstein claimed his cellmate, 52-year-old former police officer Nick Tartaglione, attacked him. Tartaglione, who is accused of murdering four men, denied that and his lawyer says: "Absolutely nothing like that happened." His lawyer also says Tartaglione was cleared by jail officials.

Epstein was put on suicide watch after the incident, but one week later, "at the direction of the MCC's psychological staff," he was taken off suicide watch and "required to have an assigned cellmate."

Cameron Lindsay, a former federal warden and prison consultant, told 60 Minutes this was "a monumental failure on all levels."
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Cameron Lindsay

Epstein was moved back to his old unit and assigned a new cellmate, but the night before his death, Epstein's cellmate was released. According to court documents, "no new cellmate was assigned" before he died, even though he was required to have one.

That night, federal prosecutors say, "Epstein was escorted into his cell by Tova Noel at approximately 7:49 p.m." Noel and Michael Thomas, the two guards who were working the overnight shift in Epstein's unit, allegedly didn't check on him again until "shortly after 6:30 a.m." the next morning.

The two guards have been charged with falsifying documents and conspiracy to defraud the federal government. Both have pleaded not guilty.

Lindsay told 60 Minutes the guards should have been checking on Epstein every half hour.

"It's my understanding, based on the documents that I examined, the two officers that were working in the Special Housing Unit allegedly falsified the records and did not do any rounds for approximately eight hours." Lindsay said. "That's a huge, huge deal. This is one of the most basic operational aspects of managing a jail or prison."
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Jeffrey Epstein, seen in a March 28, 2017, image provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry. New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP

Federal prosecutors say surveillance video "makes clear" that the guards "search[ed] the internet" and "appear to have been asleep" on their overnight overtime shift. One thing the video may not show, according to sources, is Epstein's cell door and the doors of the other inmates on his unit tier. Sources say the camera that should have captured those angles was corrupted the night of Epstein's death. Epstein's cell was about 15 feet away and up a set of stairs from the guards' station, with a single locked gate between them.

As 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi told Lindsay in their interview, the circumstances surrounding Epstein's death seem almost unbelievable.

"So Epstein's taken off suicide watch, the day before he kills himself, his roommate is removed from the cell. The cameras on his tier are not working. The guards fell asleep. It seems almost impossible to think all of those things could happen in that way," Alfonsi said.

Lindsay agreed.

"And that's what makes this so shocking," Lindsay said. "And I mean, this is a failure on multiple levels."

But Lindsay said he thinks there's "absolutely, unequivocally" no way Epstein could have been murdered.

60 Minutes reviewed hundreds of graphic photographs from Epstein's autopsy and inside his cell. There are multiple nooses, a bit of orange sheet tied to the grate of a window. On the top bunk, bottles and medicines stand upright. Below it, another piece of fabric is tied through a hole on the bed about four feet from the ground.

Did Epstein, who was nearly 6 feet tall and 185 pounds, somehow lean in and hang himself from the lower bunk? We don't know.

Dr. Baden, the forensic pathologist hired by Epstein's family, says the noose that was sketched and included in the autopsy report doesn't appear to match the wounds on Epstein's neck. And Baden says, the ligature mark was in the middle of Epstein's neck, not beneath the jawbone, as one would expect in a hanging. Also puzzling to Baden is that Epstein would make a noose out of a bedsheet when wires and cords were present in his cell, as photographs show.

There are not any photos of Epstein's body in his cell, Baden says – he was rushed to an emergency room after guard Michael Thomas found him. But Baden believes, based on the autopsy, Epstein had been dead for two hours by then and he says the scene should have been treated as a crime scene, leaving the body alone. Federal Bureau of Prisons protocol mandates a suicide scene should be treated with the "same level of protection as any crime scene in which a death has occurred."
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An image the New York City medical examiner's office took of Epstein's jail cell

Baden has taken several controversial positions over his decades-long career. And he told 60 Minutes he understands that people might think his opinion is biased because he's being paid by Epstein's brother.

"But our job is to find what the truth is, "Baden said. "Just to find out whether it's a homicide or a suicide." He also said "I hesitate, as usual, to make a final opinion until all the evidence is in."

And Baden said, at this point, he doesn't have all the information needed to make a final conclusion. The Justice Department told the family, they say, that it won't release the video pertaining to the case and additional forensic testing because of the ongoing criminal case against the two guards on duty the night of Epstein's death.

The charges have also silenced the guards themselves. Michael Thomas's attorney Montell Figgins says Thomas still hasn't spoken to investigators or revealed how he, alone, found Epstein's body, a key piece of information in any death investigation.

One member of the Justice Department who has gone on record about the case is Attorney General William Barr. He told reporters in November he personally reviewed surveillance video that showed nobody entered the area where Epstein was held. Sources say he may be talking about surveillance video above the guard area or at the entrance to the Special Housing Unit. But this remains to be seen as the Department of Justice would not comment to 60 Minutes about which cameras were working that night.

And then there are Epstein's victims, who never got their day in court to face Epstein. Many are now angry that the investigation into his death has left so many questions still unanswered.

Below is the full transcript of the 60 Minutes report, "Inside Jeffrey Epstein's Cell."

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been accused of sexually assaulting countless teenage girls. Last July, the wealthy financier was arrested and many of his victims were looking forward to finally facing him in court. But weeks after his arrest, Epstein was found dead in his jail cell. The medical examiner concluded that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.

Since then, conspiracy theories have flourished. Epstein was connected to a long list of rich and powerful people. Some suspect he was killed because of what he knew or what he threatened to tell.

How did one of the most high profile inmates in the country end up dead in a federal jail? After a five-month investigation, 60 Minutes has obtained photos, some of them graphic autopsy photos, and evidence from inside Jeffrey Epstein's cell.

This is the cell where Jeffrey Epstein was found on Saturday morning, August 10, 2019. There are dozens of photos taken by the medical examiner's office that day. On the floor, a mattress and piles of sheets. Several nooses that appear to be fashioned from the orange bed linens are laid out. His medicines photographed but no body.

Sharyn Alfonsi: Is there a photograph of when he was found dead in the cell?

Dr. Michael Baden: No. There— there's no photograph taken of Mr. Epstein in the cell.

Dr. Michael Baden observed the four-hour autopsy for Jeffrey Epstein's brother, Mark. Baden, a renowned forensic pathologist who's taken controversial positions over his decades-long career, is investigating Epstein's death for his client.

Sharyn Alfonsi: Do you think there was foul play here?

Dr. Michael Baden: The forensic evidence released so far, including autopsy, point much more to murder and strangulation than the suicide and suicidal hanging. I hesitate to make a final opinion, until all the evidence is in.

Sharyn Alfonsi: People will say, "Well, you're being paid by Mark Epstein. So of course you're gonna say that something suspicious is going on."

Dr. Michael Baden: That's a reasonable thing for some people to think. But our job is to find what the truth is. Just to find out whether it's a homicide or a suicide. Uh, we're, still haven't gotten all the information.

Guards found Epstein "at approximately 6:33am" and sources say one of them could be overheard saying, "Breathe, Epstein, breathe." Dr. Baden believes, based on the autopsy, that Epstein died around 4:30 that morning. Two hours earlier.

Sharyn Alfonsi: The guards say they came in at 6:30. They found him. They call emergency services. They tried to do CPR with him, but he's dead. But rather than leave the body there they take the body to an emergency room.

Dr. Michael Baden: Yeah.

Sharyn Alfonsi: Is that normal protocol?

Dr. Michael Baden: No, that's —that's not normal protocol. The EMS people normally, and especially in a jail, should not move a dead body.

He's right. Bureau of Prisons protocol mandates a suicide scene should be treated with the "same level of protection as any crime scene in which a death has occurred."

60 Minutes reviewed hundreds of graphic photographs from the autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein and inside his cell. There are two nooses, a bit of orange sheet tied to the grate of a window. On the top bunk, bottles and medicines stand upright. Below it, another piece of fabric is tied through a hole on the bed about four feet from the ground.
Did Epstein, who was nearly 6 feet tall and 185 pounds, somehow lean in and hang himself from the lower bunk? We don't know.

These are the known facts. On July 6, Jeffrey Epstein was booked into the Metropolitan Correctional Center, or MCC, in downtown Manhattan. A federal, high-security holding facility for inmates awaiting trial. Suicides at the MCC are rare. The last one was 14 years ago. The jail has temporarily housed everyone from Mexican drug lord El Chapo to mafia boss John Gotti and fraudster Bernie Madoff.

Bruce Barket: MCC is the worst jail or prison I've ever been to by far.

Sharyn Alfonsi: It's not a "Club Fed."

Bruce Barket: It's not a club anything. It is dirty. It's insect infested, rodent infested. It was built for about 350 and houses over 700. So the inmates are packed in.

Bruce Barket is the lawyer for Epstein's first cellmate, 52-year-old Nick Tartaglione. A brawny, former police officer accused of murdering four men. They shared a cell in the "SHU," the Special Housing Unit, which is considered safer than general population.

Bruce Barket: Jail's a tough place. The rules don't exist the way they do in society. Somebody like Jeffrey Epstein, you know, an elderly, rich white male is gonna have a tough time in general population.

Epstein was directing money to be deposited in other inmates' commissary accounts in exchange for his protection, sources say, because he feared for his life. But the government says Epstein was suicidal and made his first, failed suicide attempt weeks after he arrived.

According to court documents, on July 23, a guard found Epstein, "on the floor of his cell with a strip of bedsheet around his neck." Epstein claimed his cellmate, Nick Tartaglione, attacked him.

Sharyn Alfonsi: Epstein says that Nick tried to kill him. Nick says, "Absolutely nothing like that happened"?

Bruce Barket: It's not just Nick says, "Absolutely nothing happened." Absolutely nothing happened. No one says that Nick tried to kill Epstein.

Epstein was moved to the psych unit and placed on suicide watch. But one week later, Epstein, "at the direction of the MCC's psychological staff" was taken off suicide watch and "required to have an assigned cellmate."

Cameron Lindsay: This was a monumental failure on all levels. And that's why it has fueled the conspiracies and I understand that.

Cameron Lindsay is a former federal prison warden.

Sharyn Alfonsi: Who should've made sure that he wasn't taken off suicide watch, in your opinion?

Cameron Lindsay: The leadership of the facility should've stepped in and said, "While I appreciate the perspective of you, chief psychologist, I'm gonna override that decision and we're going to leave Epstein on suicide watch." Especially subsequent to the suicide attempt that he had.

Epstein was moved back to the SHU and assigned a new cellmate.

We reviewed photos, and interviewed jail employees, to create this composite of the area. Each tier of the SHU has eight cells, usually with two inmates per cell. Epstein's cell, 220, was about 15 feet away and up a set of stairs from the guards' station, with a single locked gate between them. The gate is the only way in or out of the tier.

Lawyers say the day before Epstein was found dead he was upbeat and looking forward to an appeal hearing on his bail. That same day, his cellmate was released and "no new cellmate was assigned." Even though he was required to have one.

Michael Thomas and Tova Noel are the two guards who were working the overnight shift on the SHU. Court documents say, "Epstein was escorted into his cell by Tova Noel at approximately 7:49 p.m." Then, the guards didn't check in on him again until "shortly after 6:30 a.m." the next morning.

Sharyn Alfonsi: So in the SHU they should be checked in on every 30 minutes?

Cameron Lindsay: They should be checked on every 30 minutes. It's my understanding based on the documents that I examined, the two officers that were working in the Special Housing Unit allegedly falsified the records and did not do any rounds for approximately eight hours.

Sharyn Alfonsi: How big of a deal is that?

Cameron Lindsay: That's a huge, huge deal. This is one of the most basic operational aspects of managing a jail or prison.

Instead, federal prosecutors say surveillance video "makes clear" the guards "search the internet" and "appeared to have been asleep." Both guards were working overtime.

Tyrone Covington: When your being forced to stay over shifts, not go home and see your family you start to see people take short cuts.

Tyrone Covington is the president of the union that represents the guards who both now face criminal charges and have pleaded not guilty.

Tyrone Covington: I absolutely believe that these staff members are being made a scapegoat.

Sharyn Alfonsi: Because it was Jeffrey Epstein?

Tyrone Covington: Because it was Jeffrey Epstein.

Covington doesn't think there was any foul play and he says there should be surveillance video to prove it.

In November, Attorney General William Barr told reporters he personally reviewed surveillance video that showed nobody entered the area where Epstein was held.

But sources say a second camera inside the tier, the one that could have seen Epstein's cell door and the doors of other inmates, was not working that night.

Sharyn Alfonsi: The theories that are out there, one of them is that it was another inmate who may have killed Jeffrey Epstein.

Bruce Barket: Come on!

Sharyn Alfonsi: You don't believe that?

Bruce Barket: He was found hanging in his cell. He had tried to commit suicide before that. He was a very wealthy man who was looking at a lifetime in prison. You know, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Sharyn Alfonsi: So Epstein's taken off suicide watch, the day before he kills himself, his roommate is— removed from the cell. The cameras on his tier are not working. The guards fell asleep. It seems almost impossible to think all of those things could happen in that way.

Cameron Lindsay: It does. And that's what makes this so shocking. And I mean, this is a failure on multiple levels.

Sharyn Alfonsi: Do you think there's any way that Jeffrey Epstein could have been murdered?

Cameron Lindsay: Absolutely, unequivocally not.

There was a note in Jeffrey Epstein's cell. He wrote that one guard kept me in a locked shower stall for one hour. Noel (the guard) sent me burnt food. Giant bugs crawling over my hands. No fun.

Dr. Michael Baden says if anyone thought Jeffrey Epstein was suicidal, they wouldn't have let him have a ballpoint pen that could be used to harm himself or someone else.

Sharyn Alfonsi: The other thing we just noticed looking at the photos. It appears he had some kind of sleep apnea machine. You can see a long electrical cord.

Dr. Michael Baden: Yes. There were other wires and cords present that it would've been easy to use to hang oneself within a few minutes.

But the key reason Dr. Baden thinks Jeffrey Epstein's death might be a homicide is because of the unusual fractures he saw in Epstein's neck.

Dr. Michael Baden: There were fractures of the left, the right, thyroid cartilage and the left hyoid bone.

This is an autopsy photo of Epstein's broken hyoid bone, a U-shaped bone that sits under the jaw that part of the tongue attaches to. The thyroid cartilage sits at the front of the neck.

Dr. Michael Baden: I have never seen three fractures like this in a suicidal hanging. Sometimes there's a fracture of the hyoid bone or a fracture of the thyroid cartilage.

Sharyn Alfonsi: But not three?

Dr. Michael Baden: Very unusual to have two and not three. And going over— over a thousand jail hangings, suicides in the New York City state prisons over the past 40-50 years, no one had three fractures.

The New York City Medical Examiner's office disputes Baden's theory, saying that fractures of the hyoid bone and cartilage can be seen in suicides and homicides and they stand "firmly" behind their finding of suicide by hanging.

Then, there's the two nooses. This was the one that was sketched and included in the autopsy by the medical examiner, presumably, because they thought it was used in Epstein's death.

But Dr. Baden says that noose, and the wounds on Jeffrey Epstein's neck, don't appear to match.

Sharyn Alfonsi: What do you see when you see these two things together?

Dr. Michael Baden: What I see here is that this noose doesn't match the ligature furrow mark. It's wider than this.

Sharyn Alfonsi: To the naked eye, it looks like there's some blood here. And it doesn't look like there's any blood on this noose.

Dr. Michael Baden: That's right. This looks like a clean noose that was never used to compress anybody's neck.

Sharyn Alfonsi: There's also something that's striking about the photos. It— the wound is down here. You'd think if somebody hung themselves the wound would be maybe up here.

Dr. Michael Baden: Yes. Most hangings— especially free hangings the ligature slides up to beneath the— the jawbone, the mandible. Here it's in the middle of the neck.

Dr. Baden says a wound straight across the neck is more common when a victim is strangled by a wire or cord.

He and Epstein's brother, Mark, met with the government and asked to see any forensic testing and any video. But they say they were told the ongoing criminal case against the two guards prevents the justice department from releasing any information.

Sharyn Alfonsi: So the criminal charges are now basically a firewall for the family to get any information about—

Dr. Michael Baden: From the Justice Department.

The charges have also silenced the guards. The attorney for guard Michael Thomas says five months after Epstein's death, Thomas has still not spoken to investigators or revealed how he, alone, found Epstein's body.

Disappointed that they never got to face Epstein in court, many victims are now angry that the investigation into his death has left so many questions still unanswered.


Produced by Oriana Zill de Granados. Associate producer, Emily Gordon. Broadcast associates, Cristina Gallotto and Mabel Kabani. Edited by Michael Mongulla and Sean Kelly.
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