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Tova Noel And The Transcript From Her Congressional Testimony (Part 10) (6/24/26) · 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 he left off with the Tovin Owell interview with Congress. Question. Okay,
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  let's talk about mister Epstein's time while he was in
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  the shoe. Answer okay, question, did you ever have any
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  conversation with mister Epstein while he was in the shoe? Answer?
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  The only conversation I had, like I referenced earlier, was
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  when I took the phone from him in the shower,
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  letting him know that his time was up. As far
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  as conversation that would have been like me speaking to
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  him at the time, I mean when I handed the food,
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  I just opened the food tray and I handed it.
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  We didn't have a conversation. Oh and he asked me
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  to plug in the seapap machine and I said okay,
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  and I plugged it. In question, so there were never
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  any conversations, no back and forth more than what you
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  just described. Answer no, question, did you ever have any
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  interaction with mister Ebstein besides the ones that you just mentioned?
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  Answer no. When I count, when I did the count
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  on myself, when I looked through the window, he raised
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  his hand, question signaling that he was there? Answer? Was there? Correct?
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  Because he's on the floor. He puts his mattress on
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  the floor. Question Did that seem unusual to you? Answer
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  no question. Would other inmates do things like that put
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  mattresses on the floor? Answer I mean in general population, Yeah,
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  especially if their bunk was the top and they don't
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  like to be on the top, they put it on
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  the floor. Mister Emmer, you mentioned that you didn't have
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  any conversation with mister Epstein while he was incarcerated. Are
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  you aware of any staff at MCC that may have
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  had conversations with him that were not related to his incarceration,
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  Miss Noel, Not that I know of. Question. Did he
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  he being mister Epstein, ever attempt to interact with you?
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  Answer no question. Did you witness or hear anything about
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  him trying to interact with any of the other officers?
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  Answer no question. Would mister Epstein ever write notes in
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  his cell? Answer Sir, I learned that after I didn't
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  physically see him writing a note or was aware at
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  the time that he would write notes. Just know about
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  the notes after question. So he did write notes in
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  his cell that you learned about after the fact, answer
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  that I learned about after the fact. Question would inmates
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  in the shoe have access to materials while in their cell?
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  Answer I'm not sure. Question would they have any like
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  books or pens, notepads anything like that? Answer not that
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  I saw. Question would speaking about shoe inmates like generally,
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  would they be allowed or permitted to have such items
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  in their cell? Answer that I don't know the answer too,
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  I don't know if they're permitted to have it. Question
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  you said earlier that shoe inmates in particular were different
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  from the arrest of mcc inmates because they were in
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  their cells for twenty three hours answer correct question out
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  of the day, and they had one hour outside their cell.
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  What would normally be happening when they would be outside
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  their cells? Answer? So the one hour could be that's
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  where you're going to meet your attorney, or there's like
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  a little library like right there you can go. And
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  I think in the shoe it's you can't be together.
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  There's like separation, so it's not like everybody's out together.
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  I guess if one's done reading then the other could
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  come out like that. But other than that, I'm not
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  sure if anything else that they do because it's not
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  done on my shift? Question what shift is it done on? Answer?
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  I know there's wreck, but I don't know if they're
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  allowed to go to wreck. I don't know who. But
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  that would have been a morning shift, like eight to four.
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  I come on at four, So question what's the wreck?
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  Answer on the roof upstairs outside. Question you said that
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  mister Epstein met with his attorney attorneys frequently. How did
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  he seem where you ever on shift whenever mister Epstein
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  would come back from visiting with his attorneys? Answer yes,
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  question how did he seem when he came back? Answer?
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  Whoever transported him to his cell? And that's it? Regular question?
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  Did you ever know what is mister Epstein doing anything
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  unusual while his cell door other than what you described
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  him laying the mattress on the floor. Answer no, because
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  you're not in the cell block constantly like regular population
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  only like if you're going to conduct around or account.
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  But no other than the mattress on the floor, I
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  never observed him doing anything. Question. I know we touched
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  on this a little bit earlier, but I'm going to
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  ask you again. Were you aware that mister Epstein was
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  seeing AMCC psychologist following the July twenty third incident. Answer,
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  when they came into the shoe, they see a psychologist,
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  him seeing or after I don't know. Question okay, So,
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  did you ever witness any MCC psychologists conducting clinical follow
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  ups with mister Epstein? Answer no, and I think a
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  lot of those things are morning shift things on my shift. No,
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  I never seen anyone. Question because typically didn't work the
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  midnight shift. Answer eight to four question okay, and just
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  to clarify, I think you said note to this, but
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  were you, as a shoe officer, responsible for reporting any
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  unusual behavior by mister Epstein or any shoe inmate to
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  the psychologist? Answer no question. Was that ever a part
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  of the training that was expressed to anyone that you
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  know of? Answer to report unusual behavior to a psychologist?
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  No question, like, for example, a shoe inmate that was
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  on suicide watch, Did you have to make note of
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  that in any way? Answer no question. Did you know
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  at the time that mister Epstein had signed a new
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  last Will and Testament on August ninth, twenty nineteen, Answer
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  no question. To the best of your knowledge, and based
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  on what you saw of mister Epstein while he was
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  in the Shoe and while you worked there were there
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  any signs that Jeffrey Epstein was suicidal? Answer no question
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  And based on your experience as a correctional officer and
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  what you witnessed firstand do you believe that mister Epstein
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  killed himself? Answer yes, question? Why is that answer? Because
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  he was the only one in to sell Nobody else
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  was in there, mister Emmer during your time with MCC,
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  where suicide's a common occurrence, Miss Noel, my time was
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  very short because I was out with an injury for
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  those months. But that was the first one that I
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  was there for. And that's the thing. There weren't that
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  many suicides at MCC. It wasn't like a place that
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  was riddled with a bunch of inmate deaths via suicide.
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  And it's not like they haven't had a whole bunch
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  of high level inmates go through the doors, Miss fair Bend.
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  Question was it maybe common is not the right word,
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  but do you think that there would have been more
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  Shoe inmates in particular on Suicide Watch than inmates elsewhere
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  in the MCC Answer correct question. So, MCC psychologists, it
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  wasn't uncommon for them to come in and do like
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  follow ups with shoe inmates? Is that right? Answer in
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  the morning question, I'd like to reference the Dojoig report.
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  I know that we talked about it a little bit.
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  It says that on August eighth, some mcc new York
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  staff received notice that mister Epstein cellmate would be transferred
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  out of the institution the following day, on August ninth.
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  Did you ever receive any notice that mister Epstein cellmate
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  would be transferred out? Answer no question. Were you ever
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  told that mister Epstein would be getting a new cell mate?
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  Answer no question. Were you ever told why mister Epstein
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  cell mate was being transferred out on August eight? Answer
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  no question. Did you ever personally speak to anyone else
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  that knew that his cell mate was going to be
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  transferred out? Answer no question. Were you working that day
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  on August eighth? Answer August eight? I think I worked.
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  Question okay, but you didn't hear any conversation about that?
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  Answer no question, okay. I'd like to move forward to
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  the night of August ninth, as we've been discussing, So
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  you had the workstation in the shoe that you worked at,
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  correct answer correct question. Did you have a computer at
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  that station while you worked at the shoe Answer correct
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  question was it a desktop or a laptop? Answer a desktop?
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  Question how many desktops were there at the station? Answer
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  to the best of my recollection, too. Question Okay, was
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  the computer yours? Or would you log into it? Answer?
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  I would log into it? Question would you always log
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  into the same computer? Answer no, it could be either
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  or question was it a staff specific log in that
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  you had to get into the computer? Answer yes, question
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  so any staff member could log into the computer. Answer correct.
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  Question would you complete your logs or your reports on
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  the computer? Answer no on the sheet? Question on the sheet?
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  Were there any tasks that you would complete on the
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  computer while you were on shift? Answer not the shoe question, so,
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  to be clear, nothing that you would have done on
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  the computer work related answer correct question. Okay, did Officer
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  bon Ham and Thomas I'm assuming also both had computers?
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  Answer correct question. Did you stay on the same desktop
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  computer for both your August nine and August tenth shift? Answer?
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  I don't recall that. Question. Okay, while you were on shift,
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  were you ever on your computer? Answer yes? Question what
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  were you doing on your computer? Answer on the shift
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  from midnight to eight in the morning, I was looking
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  at furniture. Question so non work related things? Answer correct.
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  Question Were you searching images or things on Google? Answer no,
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  to the best of my recollection. No question. But you
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  said you were looking at furniture. How are you doing
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  that on your computer? Typed in that search? The search
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  doesn't have to be Google. It could be like being
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  any search, any search engine. Question. Sure, were you looking
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  at anything else besides furniture while you were on the internet?
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  Answer so whenever you open the homepage where the new
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  loads Epstein would be on there, and I'd clicked onto it.
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  Question the search function I believe a friends Will report
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  has done the two desktops at the shoe station that night.
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  It said that the search function said, quote latest on
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  Epstein in Jail end quote. I know that you've been
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  asked this before, did you? It's your testimony that you
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  didn't physically type in latest on Epstein in Jail. Answer right,
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  I clicked on when I seen it load like on
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  the news on the desktop. Question and the desktop. The
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  Frienderick report of the desktop says that the latest on
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  Epstein in Jail was searched twice that night, once five
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  forty two am. And once ten minutes later, or again
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  ten minutes later at five point fifty two am? Is
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  that correct? Answer? I saw that. I learned that later
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  on the news. I don't recall doing that, only what
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  I said, like, if I see it on the homepage,
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  I click on it and read it. But as far
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  as performing a physical search, I don't recall doing that. Yo,
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  I don't believe a minute of that. Holy shit. And
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  if you notice, her story really isn't jibing with what
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  we've heard from the other depositions. Question when you first
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  clicked on it, what did you see? Answer? Well, I
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  don't remember specifically, but it'd be like a headline with
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  them like whatever the headline would say. Question, So at
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  that point you knew who Jeffrey Epstein was? Answer at
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  that point, yes, question and you knew that he was
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  an inmate in the shoe answer? Uh huh. Question were
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  you curious in any way anything about mister Epstein? I
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  guess my question is why didn't you want to look
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  at gets cut off by toviin no, Well, oh, because
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  he's in there. Question so mister Epstein was found deceased, Well,
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  he appeared to be deceased in his cell at six
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  thirty am the morning of August tenth, Is that correct?
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  So what forty minutes after, she's looking up Jeffrey Epstein
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  and Jeffrey Epstein in jail like what doesn't make sense
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  to me? And I'm sorry that I don't buy it,
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  but I don't answer that. I can't answer because I
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  didn't find him. Question. Okay, who found mister Epstein in itself?
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  Answer Michael Thomas. All Right, folks, we're gonna wrap up
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  right here and in the next episode dealing with the topic,
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  we're gonna pick up where we left off. All the
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