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Inside The OIG Interview: The Testimony Of The Electrical Engineer From MCC (Part 3) (4/25/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to pick up
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  where we left off with the electrical engineer from MCC
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  and his interview with the OIG. Question do you have
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  anything on that? Answer? A lot? Yes, a lot. And
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  that's the other investigator jumping in. Now, maybe you answered
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  some of this and maybe just being a layman, I
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  didn't understand. But so going back to the beginning, how
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  many cameras are in the MCC or were there in
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  August ninth and tenth? Answer? I would have to look
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  through those right now. Question well approximately answer. Old partner
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  would always tell me that there was like two hundred.
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  I probably think like one fifty if that, I don't
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  even think that it was one fifty. Question and you
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  said at the time there were approximately ten that were
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  not working. Answer yes, question what does that mean not working? Answer?
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  It probably needs to get at a focus just the
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  video is probably grainy, not the best video. Questions, so
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  they're on, but they were so differentiate for me because
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  you said that there are cameras in the shoe were working,
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  but they weren't recording. So what's the difference between working
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  and not recording when you're talking about that answer. Okay,
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  so if you have a camera working, you can see
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  the video, but it's not recording, that's totally different problem. Question. Okay,
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  so the ones that you say that are not working,
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  there's a problem with what you're seeing. Answer yeah, question,
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  but they're recording or they're not recording. Answer it could
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  possibly be that they could be recording or it can't
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  be recording. Question. All right, And then when we just
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  talked about the shoe, there's approximately ten cameras in the shoe.
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  Answer yeah, question, and the cameras in the shoe only
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  one out of the ten, only one was recording. Answer
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  only one, Yeah, because it was on a different recorder
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  at the time. Question. And on August ninth, you said
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  that you knew some of them were not recording. Is
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  that what you were saying? Answer? I knew, Yes, something
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  was going on. I went up to the room and
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  I was about to change everything out, and I didn't
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  have access, so I had to leave for the day. Question.
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  And that's on August ninth. Answer August ninth, the end
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  of the day question. And that was the very first
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  time that you knew that they were not recording. Answer
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  on that day Yes, question okay, answer towards the end
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  of the day. Question and did you know all of
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  them were not recording at the time? Aside from that
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  one answer, I didn't know exactly what wasn't recording on
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  the recorder. I don't know exactly which ones weren't working.
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  I just knew that the recorder was down. Answer and
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  how did you know that question? As soon as I
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  went in, I saw the drives, because the drives usually
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  they're green when everything's working, and amber like when there
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  is an emergency or something's wrong. And I saw that
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  there was a few ambers, so like it wasn't recording.
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  Then I called Signette, the company, and they said, I
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  have to start rebuilding. And what start rebuilding means is
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  I have to pull that hard drive out and start
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  putting fresh hard drives in. And then the system it
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  knows that it put a new hard drive in, it
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  starts to sync up and does this thing where it
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  starts to go through, it does all of its checks
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  and starts recording. And that would pretty much take a day.
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  Question that takes like a whole day to do that
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  answer a day, Yes, And I was at that stage
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  pulling everything out that was probably going to take a
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  couple of days to pull all the drives out and
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  start recording again. Question and did you make that notification
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  that the camera in the shoe were not recording to anyone? Answer?
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  I believe I told my supervisor. Question and who would
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  have been your supervisor at the time? Answer? Uh, there
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  was really like I don't think there was nobody there
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  because we were like in the middle of a project
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  and it was kind of chaos. Question Okay, did you
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  but at the time, though you knew basic all the
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  shoe cameras were down but one Answer No, I didn't
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  know anything about the shoe cameras. Question no, no, I'm
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  talking about the shoe cameras specifically. Answer no, I don't.
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  I don't know what's on the recorders. At the time,
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  I didn't know what was on the recorders. Question all right,
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  so when you went in you knew that some recorders
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  some cameras weren't recording, and you didn't know which ones.
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  Answer ones? Yeah, Question all right, So about how many
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  were amber where it was showing you that they weren't recording.
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  Answer that was like half of them, so I'll say
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  fifty to sixty cameras are probably not recording. Question so
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  there were a ton he gets cut off in that
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  slot that weren't working. Question and is there anything that
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  that just all happened on that one day of August ninth? Answer,
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  it happened before multiple times before. Question it happened before
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  answer before. Yes, question so you have actually troubleshot this
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  in the past. Answer yeah, same problem. I have to
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  rebuild drives, and I mean, hey, this isn't working. I've
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  got to rebuild the drive. There's really nothing I can do.
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  I just put the drive in and I wait and
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  I make sure it comes back. Question so this was
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  the end of the day, you said, so around like
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  two you're thinking answer on one something one something? Yeah,
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  question all right? And then being that it happened before,
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  was there anything that you're supposed to do if like, hey,
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  I've got a note notify like the captain. Answer No,
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  at my old jail. I'm not trying to throw anybody
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  under the bus. But at my old jail, if anything
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  wasn't working and I was in contact, I couldn't leave
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  the jail. Like if the fence because we had a
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  fence system or cameras aren't recording I would have to
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  fix stay there until Okay, I need a part. This
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  is what we're doing, send notification. This place has run
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  a lot differently, and I've said stuff from before and
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  my supervisor, but just like, oh, go home redacted, don't
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  worry about it. And I'm like, well, if I go home,
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  nobody's going to fix it. And at that time, I
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  was the only person that knew what was going on.
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  We had bad practices when I got to this jail.
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  Question So did someone tell you not to fix it
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  and to go home on August ninth? Answer? I'm not
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  too sure, I believe. So I'm not going to say
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  yes or no because I don't really remember that day
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  too much. But I did make a notification that it
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  wasn't working. Question to who answer and I was going
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  to be back the next day because I was doing overtime.
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  Question all right, So you were coming back on August tenth.
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  Answer yeah, the next morning, because I came at six
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  am the next morning to do overtime. Question So, and
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  is that when you were planning to fix it? Answer?
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  Fix it? Yes, question So you were going to start
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  the next day and fix it. He gets cut off
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  by the engineer and I had the drive too at
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  that time. I do remember that question, and you said
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  you made the notification. Who did you make that notification?
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  To answer my supervisor? I don't know exactly which supervisor
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  it was, but I know I made a notification. Question,
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  so you're positive you made it? Answer? Yeah? Question and
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  how would that notification have been made? Answer? Probably verbally,
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  because it's not something I would broadcast over the radio
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  or like go on phone. I would like call you
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  in a room because I don't want anybody to know that.
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  You know that I can't record video. That's not a
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  good thing. Question and I apologize. I think when I
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  asked this question. I'm not exactly sure what you meant
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  by this. But were you supposed to advise somebody like
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  the captain or the warden that the cameras were down?
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  Answer because the way the recorders work, the cameras are
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  the captain's property, so you have to notify the captain. Hey,
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  the cameras aren't recording. Question and was that your job
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  to notify him? Answer? No, I notified my supervisor and
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  may notify the captain. If I see the captain, I'll
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  say something to him, or I'll tell the lieutenant. But
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  other than that, I don't have anything to say about
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  the cameras being down. Question okay, so far, so as
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  far you're a positive you did notify your supervisor. Answer yeah,
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  I notified somebody because they have to know because I
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  told them that I was going to come back the
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  next day. Question so you just don't know who it was?
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  Answer I'm not too sure. Question is there how can
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  we find out who would have been your supervisor at
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  the time. Answer It's documented somewhere whoever my supervisor was
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  at the time. Question all right, so that person would
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  have been responsible to notify someone such as the captain
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  or the warden. Answer yes, question because if the captain
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  was out or no, he did work on the ninth right,
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  So that means that around one pm to two pm
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  you notified your supervisor. That supervisor should have notified the captain.
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  Answer yeah, and when I got a proof of overtime
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  the next day, so somebody knew I was coming back.
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  Question Oh, and does that specifically why you were approved
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  for the overtime? Answer? No, I was coming back to
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  do the project, but they knew I had the drives
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  because I was going back and forth with my computer
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  service guy, because he knows more about the hard drives
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  than I do. Where getting the parts in? Why don't
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  I just do this? And I remember that part of
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  the day. Question Now, what would cause all those cameras
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  to actually fell like that? The recorders? Answer all the recording.
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  The system was old and it needed to be upgraded.
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  It was very old. Question was it Could it have
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  been anything to do with people tampering the system? Answer? No,
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  they can't tamper with it. You have to go in
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  a room. It's behind the lock and key key in
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  the door. Question so there's no reason to believe that
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  those cameras. Answer there's two doors too, because you go
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  through the front door and then there's a secondary door
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  to go into the room. Question all right, so you
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  said the cameras are working and they're in this room.
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  Is anyone actually in that room looking at the cameras? Answer?
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  There used to be, And that's an SIS tech. I
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  think maybe redacted was there as the SIS tech for
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  that day. Question Now, when you're so, would he have
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  known that they weren't recording? Answer? No, His job is
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  pretty much to look at the live feed and maybe
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  look at the recording. But they do stuff a little
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  bit different here, so I'm not too sure exactly what
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  his function was. Question now, would they also have seen
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  this amber he gets cut off. No, they don't go
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  back in the room. Question so there's a different room.
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  Answer yeah, it's a different room altogether. They just look
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  at the monitors in the room at the time. Question
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  So by looking at the monitor, would they be able
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  to have known that the cameras were down? Answer no,
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  as far as recording, No, they would just have the
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  live feed and everything looks good. Question So for them,
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  they would have no idea that there was actually a
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  problem on the shoe cameras. Answer yeah. And then the
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  software too. Even if you look at the software at
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  the time, it wasn't even telling you that there was
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  a problem. You would think it was actually working. Question right, So,
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  to your knowledge, the only people that definitely knew that
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  the cameras were down were you and your supervisor. Answer
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  the supervisor. Yes. Question and do you know if your
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  supervisor actually made that notification to anyone else? Answer I
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  don't recall. I don't know who he talks to. Question
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  after the fact, did you ever find out if he
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  did or didn't? Answer? I don't remember. Question were you
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  questioned with regard to what happened with the cameras? Answer? Yes,
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  question who questioned you? Answer the next day because I
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  was here, I had to talk with the warden about
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  what was going on with the cameras. Question and you
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  remember what he gets cut off by the engineer and
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  the FBI too. The next day question okay, but otherwise
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  he was not president for that question the next day answer, Yeah,
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  there was nobody here. All right, folks, we're gonna wrap
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  up right here, and in the next episode dealing with
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  the topic, we're gonna pick up where we left off.
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