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The OIG Report Into Jeffrey Epstein's Death: The Events Of August 8-10 And Epstein's Death (Chapter 5)( Part 1) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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  In this episode, we're gonna pick back up with the
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  OIG Report, discussing the circumstances that led to the death
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  of Jeffrey Epstein. In our last episode, we wrapped up
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  chapter four, so now we're diving into chapter five, and
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  just like chapter four, we're going to break it down
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  into several parts, all right, So let's get to it.
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  Chapter five The events of August eighth through the tenth,
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  twenty nineteen, and Epstein's death. Part one. Epstein signs a
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  new last will and testament on August eighth. In the
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  weeks following Epstein's death, multiple media outlets reported that Epstein
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  signed the new last will and testament on August eighth
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  of twenty nineteen. At least one media organization published a
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  copy of the notarized document, showing that it was signed
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  by Epstein and two of his attorneys and notarized on
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  August eight, twenty nineteen. Attorney visitor logs from the Metropolitan
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  Correctional Center in New York, New York confirmed that those
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  attorneys and the notary public visited Epstein on that date.
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  The Office of the Inspector General OIG confirmed via court
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  records that the August eight, twenty nineteen will and other
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  probate related documents were filed in the Superior Court of
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  the Virgin Islands on August fifteenth, twenty nineteen. Among those
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  court filings was an affid David from another attorney who
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  stated that she received the August eighth, twenty nineteen will
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  from Epstein. The OIG confirmed via attorney visitor logs that
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  this attorney also visited Epstein at the mcc New York
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  on August eight of twenty nineteen. The OIG's investigation and
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  review revealed that mcc new York personnel were I don't
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  aware that Epstein had changed his will. Two days before
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  he died. The chief psychologist said she had heard that
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  Epstein had changed his will from the media reporting following
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  his death. The chief psychologist did not know if the
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  media reporting was accurate, but she thought that if it
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  was true, it would have been useful information to know
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  because it would have been a red flag. The staff
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  psychologist and the chief psychologist told the OIG that if
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  Epstein's attorneys had notified them or the psychology department that
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  Epstein had changed his will. Such information would have been
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  a factor warranting a review of Epstein's mental state, and
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  Epstein probably would have been placed back on suicide watch
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  or some type of observation. Part two court order on
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  August ninth, releasing Epstein related documents impending civil litigation. On
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  August ninth, twenty nineteen, the US Court of Appeals for
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  the Second Circuit Court ordered the unsealing of the summary
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  judgment filings from a defamation lawsuit filed by Virginia Roberts,
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  a woman who alleged that Epstein had victimized her when
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  she was a teenager against Gallain Maxwell. As a result
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  of the court's order that same day, approximately two thousand
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  pages of documents were released into the public domain, which
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  contained considerable derogatory information about Epstein, and some may have
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  related to the criminal charges pending against them. Additional high
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  profile public figures were also named in the release documents.
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  There was significant media coverage of information contained within the
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  unsealed court filings. Part three transfer of Epstein's cellmate on
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  August ninth to another institution and failure to replace them
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  with another inmate. Part A notice on August eighth, the
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  impending transfer of Epstein's cellmate on August ninth, as noted above.
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  Since July thirtieth, consistent with the Psychology Department's determination that
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  Epstein needed to have a cell mate, Epstein had been
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  housed with inmate number three, whom the warden and the
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  Federal Bureau of Prisons Executive leadership had selected as an
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  appropriate cell mate. At ten thirty am on August eight,
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  twenty nineteen, the US Marshall Service sent an email to
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  mcc new York personnel assigned to receiving and discharge the
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  area within the Correctional Services Department that is responsible for
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  processing inmates who enter or leave the facility, with the
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  subject transfer of prisoners from NYM MCC new York to GEO.
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  The body of the email identified in May three as
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  one of the prisoners to be transferred, and further stated,
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  please schedule the transfer for Friday eight nine, nineteen. At
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  three thirty six pm. On the same day, the USMA
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  sent a second email to a number of mcc new
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  York personnel, including Associate Warden number two, the Captain, the
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  Shoe Lieutenant, the day Watch Operations Lieutenant, the day Watch
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  Activities Lieutenant, the Evening Watch Operations Lieutenant, another lieutenant, and
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  the Special Investigative Services Lieutenant with the subject Prisoner Production
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  eight nine, twenty nineteen. This email contained to attachments, one
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  of which was the Prisoner Scheduled Report for mcc new
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  York for August ninth, twenty nineteen. The first page of
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  this attachment reflects that inmate number three was scheduled to
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  be transferred from mcc new York to GOO Queen's Detention
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  facility on August ninth, twenty nineteen. This attachment also includes
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  the acronym WAB within the destination description portion of the document,
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  which mcc new York personnel told the OIG means with
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  all belongings. During their OIG interviews, MCC new York staff
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  members further explained that the WAB rotation meant that in
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  May three was being permanently removed from mcc new York
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  on August ninth, twenty nineteen. Notwithstanding this email, as detailed below,
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  several of the email recipients identified above, including the Captain,
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  the day Watch Operations Lieutenant, and the day Watch Activities Lieutenant,
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  told the OIG that they believed in May three had
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  gone to court on August ninth, and they did not
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  know he'd been transferred to another facility part B MCC
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  New York staff rejected Epstein's attorney request that Epstein be
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  housed without a cell mate. Forensic Psychologist One told the
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  OIG that on August ninth, twenty nineteen, she was present
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  during a meeting in which one of Epstein's attorneys opposed
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  Epstein having a cell mate. Forensic Psychologist One explained to
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  the attorney that because Epstein was housed in the Shoe
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  and he was a sex offender, he needed to have
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  a cell mate. Additionally, the OIG investigation revealed that on
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  the day of Epstein's death, a supervisory staff attorney with
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  the BP's Consolidated Legal Center for New York sent an
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  email to the warden to inform him that on the
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  previous day, August ninth, twenty nineteen, two of Epstein's attorneys
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  separately contacted him. One of the attorneys asked for Epstein
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  to be moved to a different specific housing unit within
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  MCC New York. The other attorney asked for Epstein to
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  be housed without a cell mate in the Shoe. The
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  supervisory staff attorney said he informed the first attorney that
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  the suggested housing unit was not available for pre child
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  detainees such as Epstein, and he said he told the
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  second attorney that Epstein could not be housed without a
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  cell mate because of his prior suicide attempt. Removal on
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  August ninth of Epstein's cellmate from MCC New York. According
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  to mcc new York reports, including the Daily Log and
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  the Lieutenants Log, on August nine, twenty nineteen, at approximately
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  eight thirty eight, a m Epstein cellmate in May three
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  was pre removed and transferred out of MCC New York
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  in a routine pre arranged transfer. The Daily Log tracks
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  inmate movements throughout the MCC New York each day, while
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  MCC new York lieutenants utilized the Lieutenant's Log to document
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  the daily activities that took place within the institution during
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  their respective shifts. The Supervisory Correctional System Specialist was the
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  supervisor of Receiving and Discharge on August ninth, twenty nineteen,
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  and was responsible for overseeing all inmate movements in and
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  out of the institution that day. The Supervisory Directional Systems
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  Specialist verified that receiving and Discharge would have used the
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  USMS emails sent on August eighth, twenty nineteen, to coordinate
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  in May three's transfer out of mcc New York, and
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  since in May three was listed as wab on the
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  USMS emails, that meant he was being transferred from the
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  facility and not coming back. She explained to the OIG
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  that if in May three had been going to court,
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  as many pre trial inmates held a mcc New York
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  often did, the daily log would have reflected court rather
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  than pre remove. Since the daily log listed in May
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  three as pre remove, the receiving and discharge personnel who
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  entered the information into the report were made aware that
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  in May three was being transferred from mcc New York
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  honor before the morning of August ninth, twenty nineteen. The
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  supervisory Correctional System specialist told the OIG that the language
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  in the USMS email Wabie with all belongings and the
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  MCC new York reports pre removed made it clear that
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  in May three would not be returning to the Shoe
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  or MCC New York. The OIG also interviewed the Correctional
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  Systems officer who was the receiving and discharge officer who
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  handled inmate movements in and out of MCC New York.
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  On August ninth, twenty nineteen, the Correctional Systems officer confirmed
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  that the daily log reflected that in May three was
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  pre removed on August ninth, twenty nineteen at eight thirty
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  eight a m. Because he was being officially moved from
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  the institution to another prison. She explained to the OIG
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  that the ordinary process was that receiving in discharge personnel
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  would enter the information regarding in May three into century
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  along with information pertaining to other inmates who would be
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  leaving their MCC New York housing units. Receiving in discharge
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  use this information to create the daily call out list,
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  which had all the inmates names and times that they
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  were being moved. The Correctional Systems officer told the OIG
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  that the call out list from August ninth, twenty nineteen
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  was no longer available because the call out lists were
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  printed and hand delivered to the housing units each day
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  and then discarded by the units at the end of
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  the day. She also said each day's call out list
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  was only maintained electronically for a twenty four hour period,
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  and then it was updated overwritten with the next day's list.
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  In our OIG interview, the correctional Systems officer explained what
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  would have occurred on this date based on her experience.
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  Receiving and discharge personnel would have printed copies of the
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  call out list for August ninth, twenty nineteen, which mcc
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  New York Internal Officer would distribute to the various housing
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  units within the facility. Based on the other records reflecting
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  in May Three's transfer, the correctional Systems officer said the
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  call out list created for August ninth, twenty nineteen would
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  have listed wab next to in May Three's name, which
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  meant that he was departing from the institution and not returning.
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  Correctional Officer Number one told the OIG that on the
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  morning of August ninth, twenty nineteen, he and daywatch Shoe
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  Officer in charge escorted in May three to receiving and
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  discharge and Epstein to his legal visit. All right, folks,
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  we're going to wrap up there, and then in the
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  next episode, we're gonna pick up with part D of
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  Chapter five. All of the information that goes with the
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  episode can be found in the description box.