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Michael Franzese Expresses His Doubts About The Jeffrey Epstein Jailhouse Narrative (5/1/26) · 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. As the debate around Jeffrey Epstein's death continues
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  to pick up steam, there's a lot of people out
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  there that just are I'm buying what the government's selling.
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  And one of those people is a former mobster who
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  was once jailed at the MCC. And that mobster is
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  Michael Francis. And you might know Michael Francis as somebody
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  that has a podcast now and does you know, TV appearances,
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  but in his previous life, he was a captain in
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  the Colombo crime family. And if you've ever seen the
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  movie Goodfellas, when they're walking into the Copacabana and as
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  they're walking in, they're doing basically a roll call of
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  all the people that Henry's walking by, and one of
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  them is Michael Francis. So this is a man that
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  obviously knows what he's talking about when it comes to
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  the world of crime, and somebody who spent seven months
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  locked up at the MCC. So in this episode, we're
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  gonna hear what Michael Francis has to say about Jeffrey
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  Epstein and the possibility that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. This
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  article was published by The New York Post and the
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  headline former mobster once jailed in Jeffrey Epstein's cell says
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  suicide inside would be impossible. And I don't like to
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  use the word impossible because we really don't know, right,
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  there's always a chance. My big problem is a transparency.
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  I'm more than willing to accept that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.
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  What I'm not willing to accept is the gas lighting,
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  the bullshitting, and the outright doctoring of data that's being
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  released by the federal government. Now we're hearing that that
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  video that was released by the government that supposedly was
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  looking at Jeffrey Epstein's tier had more than one minute missing.
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  Now they're saying two minutes and fifty two seconds. So
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  if you don't have questions about what happened in that
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  jail cell, I have to wonder why. Right, you're not
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  crazy for wondering what happened. And as you all know,
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  I'm big on conspiracy theories, not really my thing, but
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  when there's evidence that points to something, I'm not going
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  to shy away from it because the powers that be
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  don't want us talking about it. We're going to continue
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  to talk about it, and my fat yap is going
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  to continue moving until they properly address what happened here
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  with the right amount of evidence. Until then, it's just
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  a narrative. Basically, everything we're hearing right now is the
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  same thing that Bill Barr told us, So all of
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  a sudden, Bill Barr is the arbiter of truth. We
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  should believe Bill Barr. I'm sorry, but I don't. I
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  have a very hard time believing somebody like that. I
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  didn't believe them then, I don't believe them now. In fact,
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  I dubbed them Darth Barr because the dude is nothing
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  but evil in my opinion. But like usual, it's meet
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  the new boss, same as the old boss. And the
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  new heads of the DOJ, the heads of the FBI,
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  the heads of the Bureau of Prisons. They're just reading
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  off the same script as their predecessors did. Remember all
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  the talk at the beginning, All things are going to
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  be changed. We're gonna have the most transparent administration of
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  all time. Yeah, sure, how's that transparency going. This article
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  was authored by Alex Olivieria, an inmate who served time
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  in the exact jail cell where Jeffrey Epstein died, said
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  it would be impossible for the pedophile to have killed
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  himselves inside. Michael Francis, a former Colombo crime family capo,
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  told News Nation that he spent seven months incarcerated in
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  the cell where Epstein died and that the very architecture
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  and layout of the rooms would not allow somebody to
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  kill themselves like Epstein. And there's a lot of people
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  who have said this, A lot of people who did
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  time of that jail have said the same thing that
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  they find it very, very hard to believe that this
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  was able to occur. Now, there have been suicides at
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  the jail before, no doubt about it. But we're talking
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  about one of the most high profile inmates, not only
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  at that lockup but in general around the whole country.
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  Besides maybe a few different inmates in different lockups around
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  the country. Epstein had to be right near the top
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  of the list when it comes to high value targets,
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  high value inmates. So for them to let him be unattended,
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  for them to let this go down, you really think
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  it was just a bunch of coincidences that happened all
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  at the same time. I have a hard time believing
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  that folks, I really do. If it was one thing,
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  maybe you know, the cameras stopped working, but the guards
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  were still awake, okay, or the guards fell asleep, but
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  the cameras kept rolling, all right, But all of it.
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  At the same time, they're asking us to suspend reality
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  and believe the gas lighting that they're pitching, and unfortunately
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  for them, a lot of people aren't buying it. There
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  is just no way that you're able to commit suicide.
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  There's just no way, Francis said, there's no way to
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  hang yourself. There's nothing from the ceiling, there is nothing
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  from the bed. Well, we know that Epstein allegedly hung
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  himself from the bed, but I have my doubts about
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  the whole scenario that they put out for us. The
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  whole entire scenario doesn't sound plausible. And now look that's
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  just my opinion. By the way, I don't have any
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  kind of inside information here where I can point to
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  and say, hey, look, here's the smoking gun. But when
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  you follow the story from the very beginning the genesis
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  to now, none of it makes sense. Protocol was broken.
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  The story was posted about on four Chan thirty eight
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  minutes before it hit the actual media no ems report added,
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  the way they treated the jail cell after they found them.
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  None of it makes sense. And all these years later,
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  all that we've seen or heard is the OIG report
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  that tells us about what happened that night, at least
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  according to the official narrative. But there's a lot of
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  holes in that OIG report as well. And at the
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  time when the report was put out, that's what I
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  was talking about, that the report seems like just a
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  cover up. Basically, anytime it's we're gonna investigate ourselves, I
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  have a lot of questions, whether it's the government, a company, anybody,
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  because how far is the investigation going to be? Now?
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  I know that the Office of the Inspector General isn't
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  supposed to be politicized, but do you really think that's true?
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  Do you really think that the OIG can just do
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  whatever they want. We know the story, We know they can't.
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  And my guess is they weren't given all the information
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  when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, and we know that's
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  a fact when you look at the OIG report into
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  the NPA and into his death. There's a lot of
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  unanswered questions. But according to the DOJ and the current
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  administration case closed. Everything's been answered, and if you want
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  any more answers, there's something wrong with you. You're a bad person,
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  and the story's boring. I don't know why anybody's interested
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  in it. Meanwhile, there's no answers, a bunch of gaps
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  in the official narrative, and the whole bunch of people
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  that should be in prison. But sure, continue with the gaslighting.
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  You'd have to be a midget and work really hard
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  to try and hang yourself, and I don't think you
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  could accomplish it, he added, explaining that there are no
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  fixtures on the ceiling and that the beds are generally
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  low to the ground, and that's why him having a
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  broken hyoid bone is very suspicious. When you start looking
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  at the report from the coroner and you look at
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  the broken bones in Epstein's neck and some of the
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  other various injuries to his body, it points more to
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  a homicide than it does to a suicide. And that's
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  not just me telling you that, that's doctor Michael Bowden.
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  And remember, at first, the medical examiner wasn't willing to
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  declare how Jeffrey Epstein died because there were too many inconsistencies.
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  Then after a little talk by the powers that be,
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  things changed, So they can try and recreate history all
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  they want, But some of us have been here from
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  the very beginning. So while this revision is bullshit, isn't
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  going to work. We remember this in real time as
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  it was happening. And folks, I'm here to tell you
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  that the narrative that you're being sold does not jive.
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  It doesn't line up with the facts, and it certainly
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  doesn't line up with everything we know. You just couldn't
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  physically do it. It would almost be impossible to do it.
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  Despite Francis's claims about the cell's layout, photos from Epstein's
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  cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center after he died showed
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  a bunk ladder and gritted bar on the window that
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  reached the ceiling. Epstein, sixty six, hanged himself in his
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  cell in August twenty nineteen, as he was being held
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  without bell pending trial on child sex trafficking charges. Now
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  look again, I'm not going to sit here and tell
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  you I know what happens in that cell. I don't,
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  but I want answers, real answers, and I don't mean
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  somebody telling me just to shut up and move on.
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  I mean, real evidence, real documents. Let's see at all
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  everything you have, Let's see it, release everything. And if
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  you don't do that, it makes you look guilty as hell.
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  So anybody out there that's pissed that the people are
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  asked in questions and people are demanding that Donald Trump
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  be transparent. Remember it was Donald Trump's own fault. He's
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  the one that pushed all of this on the campaign trail.
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  So now that people are asking for him to follow
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  through and he's not, it's their fault, of course it's not.
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  Don't make promises you're not going to keep, and don't
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  try and politicize something that you have no interest in
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  ever seeing through, because if you do, this is the
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  end result. This is the backlash that you should expect,
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  and frankly, this is the backlash that you deserve. The
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  twisted financier had been placed on suicide watch after an
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  apparent attempt to take his own life behind bars just
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  days earlier. He was moved to a heavily monitored unit
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  after that, where guards were supposed to regularly check on him.
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  But none of that happened, did they The guards were
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  sleeping they were, you know, doodling on the internet, buying things,
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  checking shit out. Meanwhile, jeffre Epstein was dying in that
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  gel cell. But the guards, no punishment, got to move
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  on with their lives. Little slap on the wrist. And
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  I know what you're saying to yourself, Bobby the warden,
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  he must have been punished, right, No, he was promoted.
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  But I know, just a conspiracy theory. Nothing to see here.
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  But the guards fell asleep on duty the night Epstein
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  died and later doctor there are logbooks to hide it.
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  At the same time, the cameras watching the cell block
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  apparently malfunctioned and turned off. Francis doesn't buy those stories.
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  As far as the camera's being off, I haven't experienced that.
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  I did eight years in prison, and I haven't experienced
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  cameras being broken and the perfect storm of correctional officers
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  not walking those cells, he told News Nation. Yeah, you
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  would think if the cameras are down, they're going to
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  be extra vigilant, right, report that right away. Look, the
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  cameras are down, we don't have access to the tier.
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  Epstein's not being watch. What do we do? But no,
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  none of it happened. They just sat back, had a
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  nap and let things go down. They walk in, they
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  look in on you all the time. He added, as
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  a matter of fact, sometimes it's embarrassing to go to
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  the toilet because they're walking past you and looking in
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  the cell constantly. I just can't buy it. I cannot
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  buy it. I'm sorry, and I have no horse in
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  the race other than my experience in the fact that
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  I just couldn't see it happening. Francis continued debate over
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  Epstein's death and conspiracy theories about the high flying sex
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  trafficker's death have dominated headlines since the Trump administration announced
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  last week that investigator is determined a supposed client list
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  detailing powerful people connected to the Pedal never existed. Boy,
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  they should have just listened to the people who know
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  what they're talking about, huh, instead of running off with
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  a bunch of bullshit. And remember, just to be clear,
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  the same people that promised you the list are the
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  same people making all the other wild, dumb ass comments
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  about Jeffrey Epstein and what's going on here. So I
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  would take what some of these folks are saying saying
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  to you with a gigantic grain assault. Attorney General pound
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  Bondi has also doubled down on the official ruling that
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  Epstein killed himself, while the Department of Justice released never
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  before seen footage from outside his cell suggesting no one
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  entered the night he died. Yeah, what about the people
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  that were already there? And I have an episode that
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  I'm working on where we're going to talk a little
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  bit more about the people that were in those jail
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  cells next to Epstein, because I haven't had any kind
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  of questions answered about who those people are or were
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  and where they are now. Because you would think that
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  if you're trying to get to the bottom of this,
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  probably some people to talk to know. So we're definitely
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  going to be diving a bit deeper into that in
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  some episodes in the future, but until then, that's going
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  to do it for this one. All of the information
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