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Broken Protocol: How Epstein’s Death Defied Procedure (Part 1) (4/24/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the program. In
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this episode, we're picking up or left off talking about
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Jeffrey Epstein's death via that CBS article once again. This
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article was authored by Daniel Rutnick, Graham Kates, and Kara Tobatchnick.
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Evidence Photography one oh one. Epstein's body was discovered at
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six thirty am on August tenth, twenty nineteen, by Corrections
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officer Michael Thomas, when he arrived at his cell to
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deliver breakfast. Thomas said he found the accused felon in
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a near seated position, suspended from the top of the
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bunk by a homemade noose, with his legs straight out
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and his buttocks approximately one inch to one and a
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half inches off the floor. According to the Inspector General's report,
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internal Corrections Department memos obtained exclusively by CBS News described
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them as cold with no palpable pulses. And remember, Michael
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Thomas was one of the guys that was in charge
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of maintaining Jeffrey Epstein's supervision, but instead he was busy
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screwing around on the computer, sleeping, reading the Internet, you
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name it. And what happened to him? That's right nothing.
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The first FBI agents arrived at the cell more than
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seven hours later, at one thirty five pm, according to
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the twenty twenty three report, But when they arrived, photos
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showed that they found a disorganized rifle through clutter. Crucially,
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Epstein's lifeless body had already been removed from the cell,
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eliminating a critical source of information investigators would need to
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determine how and when he died. Forensic pathologist Michael Bowden said, now,
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why would they do that? Why would you remove this body?
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Why wouldn't you call and get guidance right away from
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the FBI or Bureau of Prisons whatever. We're not talking
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about some nobody here, And don't get that twisted. I
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don't mean anybody deserves that kind of treatment, But I'm
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talking about the scope of the kind of inmate we're
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talking about here. This is a man that is a
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high profile inmate, a man that might have information on
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other people. Do you really think this is the proper
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protocol to follow the fact that he was moved diminishes
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the ability to determine how long he was dead before
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he was found, Boden said. Emergency medical technicians wrote in
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their reports on the incident, which was obtained by CBS
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News that the staff they interacted with cannot say when
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Epstein was last seen alive or describe how he was
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found in the jail cell, other to say, we found
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them on the ground. No pictures taken. Nothing. You would
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think you'd come in there with body cameras. Everything. Right,
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Let's make sure we memorialize the scene and make sure
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everything's on the up and up. There's gonna be questions,
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but no, and we're supposed to just suck this shit
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down like the good little rubes we are. Well, I'm
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telling you right now that I don't buy it, and
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I'm not going to buy it until you give me
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some definitive proof because everything about this investigation, hell, everything
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about the investigation screams cover up. Inside the cell, piles
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of Linen's had been strewn about, mattresses were squeezed into
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a corner on the floor near his bunk bed, and
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Epstein's personal items were rearranged or moved. Photos from the
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scene show Experts who reviewed photos from the scene for
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CBS News said there were also inconsistencies between the investigator's
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official reports and what the images show. Well, why would
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they give us the real story. There's nothing that's going
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to challenge them, right, not the DOJ, not the BOP
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and Epstein's family. Nobody's going to listen to what Mark
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Epstein has to say. But I'll tell you this much
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right now. Out of all the people that we've heard from,
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all the people involved, I think that Michael Bowden is
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the most respected as far as professionally. I remember as
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a kid watching that show on HBO with Michael Boden.
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I forget the name of it now, some kind of
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you know, Criminal Corner Tapes or whatever the fuck it
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was called, but it was fascinating as hell back then.
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And this is a guy that's been involved in how
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many autopsies. So I'm going to defer to Michael Boden
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and what he has to say. And if you want
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to believe what the State of New York and the
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federal government has to say instead, then that's completely fine.
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Just know that the evidence doesn't line up with the
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narrative that you're being pitched. In those photographs, it was
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obvious that things were moved around, said former New York
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Police Department detective Herman Weisberg, who is now managing director
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of Stage intelligence. It definitely appeared to me that the
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scene was, for lack of a better term, staged a bit. Yeah,
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yes it was. They did that on purpose. They wanted
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the cover, and that cover is ah shucks. We're just
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a bunch of ignorant morons who don't know how to
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do our job. And how do you challenge that very
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difficult right? You got yourself a whole ass baked in
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alibi right there. We're just bad at our job. And
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while I don't disagree that most of these people probably
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were or are bad at their jobs, I think that
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the coincidences that piled up here are a lot more
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than just coincidences. One coincidence, Fine, the guys fell asleep,
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If that was just it, I get it. People have
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rough nights the day before they're out partying, whatever it
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might be. But all of this stuff to happen at
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the same exact time, in the same exact place, to
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the same exact inmate. Come on, man Epstein's medications, a
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special mask for treating sleep apnea, and at least one
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piece of fabric tied into a noose appeared in different
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places over the course of ninety minutes. When a photographer
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from the Medical Examiner's office was documenting the scene. And
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that's another reason why I just don't believe what they're
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pitching us. There has been a lot of tom foolery,
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if you will, when it comes to this crime scene investigation.
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And then after that we start learning about stage photos,
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we start learning about the questions that were even being
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poised by the coroner himself. So there's a lot going
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on here and they just want to file it all
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under coincidence and it's obviously not true. Wisberg and other
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experts emphasize that regardless of whether Epstein's death was a suicide,
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the cell should have been treated as a crime scene
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using standard investigatory practices. And this is what I was
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saying earlier. I have friends that are prison guards, and
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they told me straight up that everything that happened here
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was against protocol. Now, they didn't work at MCC, but
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they have worked in federal lockups, and according to them,
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none of this was on the up and up. Now, again,
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that doesn't mean that they're saying that it was some
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kind of you know, hit job or whatever they're talking about.
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From the investigative portion of it, none of it adds up.
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So when you have all these things that converge at once,
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what are we supposed to think? It almost appears to
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me that whoever was investigating this just took it at
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face value that it was a suicide with no foul
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play whatsoever suspected, Wiseberg said, But in a situation as
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high profile as this, I would always as an investigator,
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consider that there might be foul play. Yeah, you don't
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know what's going on, especially if the cameras are broken,
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nobody was checking on them, guards were negligent in their duty.
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You're just gonna go with suicide right off the bat
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and be like, Hey, that's what it is. No need
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to do an investigation here. We already know. Bitch, you
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don't know nothing. And that's becoming very apparent as the
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days slip by. While some experts question federal investigator's treatment
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of the scene, forensic pathologist Judy Melnick, who used to
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work at the New York City Medical Examiner's Office, said
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a former employer appears to have handled the case by
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the book, Oh of course good, and trot out the
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mouthpiece that used to work in the office. I'm just
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going to tell you right off the bat, I don't
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believe a word that Judy Melanick has to say. It's
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just people doing what they normally do for any other case.
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Melanick said, the majority of cases, if you aren't such
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a high profile decedent, the scrutiny would not apply. This
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is how they treat every other jail death of somebody
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who is not high profile. That is incorrect and a lie.
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Just another person trotted out by the powers that be
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to try and tell you some bullshit and use their
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official title or former official title as some sort of
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justification for the shit they're saying. Well, guess what, I
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don't believe you. How about that, Judy Melanick. The sequence
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of evidence photos starts with a picture of the stairs
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leading up to Epstein's cell block Tyre L. Underlying data
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from the photo shows a taken at nine thirty four am,
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three hours after Epstein's body was found and four hours
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before the federal investigators arrived. Why would it take them
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four hours to arrive? You mean to tell me there's
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not an FBI field office close to MCC that could
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dispatch some officers right away. What exactly is it that
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they were doing, or rather should I say, what were
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they giving the staff at the jail time to do
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time went by, even as the nation's top law enforcement
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officer sought a rapid investigation. I was obviously covering it
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very quickly and wanted to rule out anything other than suicide.
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Bar told Congress in August, adding that within an hour
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or minutes of finding out about it, I directed the
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Inspector General to have people in New York go to
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the scene and conduct an investigation. Now, I don't know
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if you know this about me or not, but I
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don't trust Bill Barr. I don't trust Darth Barr as
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far as I can throw them. Everything this guy says
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about Jeffrey Epstein sets the alarm bells going in my head.
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I just don't trust anything Bill Barr has to say.
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On the back wall, a surveillance camera is visible. It
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was streaming but not recording. This was due to a
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hard drive malfunction that had previously been identified but not fixed,
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according to a Justice Department report. So who all knew
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about that? You want to get deep in the weeds?
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Was it an inside job? Did somebody know that the
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cameras weren't working? Then Tovia Noel and Michael Thomas, they
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do their little fall asleep routine, may pretend they're tired whatever,
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and then Epstein's clipped seems just as plausible as any
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of the other bullshit they're trying to pitch to us.
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In fact, seems even more plausible. Next is a blurry
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image of the door to Epstein's cell number two twenty.
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Running Underneath the door was a cable that provided power
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to a sea pat machine. Epstein had initially been assigned
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to a cell in a different tier. What he was
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moved to sell to twenty free easier access to an outlet,
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according to the Bureau of Prisons records. And that's another
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thing that doesn't make sense. Why would he use bedsheets
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and not just this chord? If you were going to
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kill yourself, would you put together a bunch of bed
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sheets or would you use the chord for your sleep
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apnea machine. I think I'd go with the chord. Makes
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things a lot easier, right, And if you want to
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make sure you're successful, probably better off than a bunch
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of sheets that are tied together. The jails computer systems
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were never updated to note that move, according to investigators.
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A source close to the investigation told CBS News that
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correction staff rarely updated internal inmate moves, instead preferring to
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call out their names while in the tears. Two documents
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on the door are shown in images after Epstein's death.
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One was a print out with Epstein's personal details and
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a booking photo above that was the ID card for
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Epstein's former roommate, Eprin Reyes. Stone Reyes, you know the
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guy that Bill Barr ended up having a personal meeting
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with and then said he didn't meet with him in
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the deposition, Yeah, that's Sam Stone Reyis. Cells typically hold
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two inmates, and following a suspected suicide attempt two weeks earlier,
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Epstein was mandated by correction officials to have a cellmate.
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The day before Epstein's death, however, Reyes was transferred out
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of the detention center. Investigators eventually concluded that Reys move
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aloud Epstein the solitude needed to kill himself. Well do
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you think Reyes made that decision himself or was he moved? Okay?
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Who signed off on it? Why? What was the motivation?
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Why wasn't another inmate placed in the cell with Epstein?
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Why was all of this protocol broken? From the first
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photo to the last, it's clear the scene in the
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cell was chaotic, so much so that investigator is never
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conclusively determined which strip a bed sheet was around Epstein's
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neck when he died. How the fuck don't you even
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determine that? I mean, you're the federal government, right, you
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have all the all the ability, all of the technology.
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The only reason why something like that occurs is because
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you wanted to occur. You don't want to get to
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the answers, you don't want to get to the bottom
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of it. Instead, let confusion rain. Photos of the bed
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also raised questions. One shows an orange string hanging from
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a bar. This picture was included in a twenty twenty
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three report by the Department of Justice Inspector General, alongside
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a description of how Epstein was found, suggesting investigator is
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believed that was what he used to hang himself. Yeah,
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don't buy that. And when you look at these photos,
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I doubt you're gonna buy it either. If that was
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the case and the room hadn't been disturbed before the
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photographer arrived, Epstein's rear would have come to rest on
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a mattress instead of hovering over the floor, complicating investigator's
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explanation of how he hanged himself. So let's just move
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the body. Let's just stage the scene and then we'll
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claim ignorance when you know people have questions later on
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best way to do it. Right. Ah, we're just ignorant.
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We didn't know. We're just a bunch of people who
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are untrained, unqualified, shouldn't even be here. But hey, here's
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what happened. You should listen to our narrative now, because
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you know, even though we're ignorant, even though we're morons,
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we're telling you the truth now. Yeah, sorry, not buying it,
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not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Some of the evidence
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was not photographed in Epstein's cell, but instead appeared to
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be in an entirely different room, one with floor tiles
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distinct from the barrel concrete of Epstein's cell. These pictures
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show a defibrillator and another strip of orange cloth tied
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into a noose like shape. It is visibly different from
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the one shown hanging from Epstein's bedframe. Of course it is,
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because it's not the same one. Just listen to what
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we have to tell you. Don't question anything, don't do
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any kind of constructive reasoning. Just listen to the narrative
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and shut up and move on. Well, here's an idea.
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At least try and pitch us a narrative that makes sense,
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because what you're selling here is garbage. There is no
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indication in official reports where this noose was found or
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which of several knotted strips of bed linen may have
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been removed from around Epstein's neck. A rendering of this
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noose was included in Epstein's official autopsy, but the Justice
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Department later revealed in its twenty twenty three report that
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the news depicted is not the ligature Epstein used to
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kill himself. So why include it in the report? Oh,
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that's right, trying to make a look official like they
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had an idea of what was going on. And isn't
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it convenient The whole entire narrative fits with the whole
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perfect storm narrative. Oh, this was a screw up. That
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was a screw up. Everything's this screw up, and it
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was all a mistake. By the time that the FBI arrived,
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it was clear that their work would be scrutinized by
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the top brass inside the Justice Department. After the suicide,
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I told the headquarters to make sure that they flooded
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the zone. Bar told Congress in an August deposition, there
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is no indication in any official report that an FBI
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crime scene investigator officially known as an evidence response team
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ever ran fingerprints or DNA tests on anything found in
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the cell. Well, no, shit, they didn't. That's what they
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do in a real investigation, not in an investigation that
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they want to claim was botched. Epstein's autopsy report indicates
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medical examiners collected fingernail clippings and swabs from his neck
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and hands. Epstein's brother told CBS News that he still
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hasn't received any information about the results of DNA tests
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if they were carried out, and bar said in his
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deposition that he couldn't remember if they had been done. Now, folks, look,
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was this ignorance because of ignorance or was this willful
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ignorance and hopes to cover up what happened. I'll leave
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that up to you to decide. A twenty twenty four
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report by Department of Justice researchers warned that their investigators
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risked missing and important opportunity to get evidence if DNA
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is not collected at the scene as needed or at
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the time of examination. They advised that the body swabs
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should be considered both at the scene and during the autopsy,
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Wiseberg said investigators left too many stones unturned, missing the
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opportunity to close the case in a way that would
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feel conclusive to the public. In the back of any
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good investigator's mind, he's preparing this to be scrutinized by counsel.
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In this case, you're preparing it to be scrutinized by
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a lot of desktop detectives. So you'd better have all
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your facts straight. Wiseberg said the FBI inspected to sell
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and retrieve what they believed to be relevant to its
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investigation into the cause of Epstein's death, which included one
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torn sheet, miscellaneous papers, and an MP three player. Inspector
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General Investigators wrote in the twenty twenty three report Forensic Analysis.
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Brio said he considered the agency's treatment of the scene
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to be striking some really shoddy work here, if you
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can even call it that, Barrerio said, I mean there's
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absence of work here. One basic procedure, which Brererio referred
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to as evidence photography one oh one is photographing scenes
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in a progression that goes from wide shot to close
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ups with markers identifying evidence. There's no evidence markers in
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any of these photographs, Like, how do you keep track
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once you get the stuff back to the crime lab?
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This is essentially useless, said Burrio, a former police detective
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and an FBI trained member of the Digital Imaging and
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Video Recovery Team. So, look, it's not just my dumbass
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saying this. You have people that are actually trained in
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the art of investigation who feel the same exact way.
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And I've spoken with a lot of people who have
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knowledge of how these investigations should work, and they all
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come to the same conclusion that we're getting here from
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mister Barrerio. Federal investigators questioned fifty four people before issuing
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their final report, including three inmates who had been housed
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on Epstein's tier, as well as GEL staff, administrators, contractors,
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and his brother. However, several other witnesses or the representatives
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told CBS News they were not interviewed. That included many
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other inmates housed in Epstein's tier the night of his death,
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at least one staffer who arrived at Epstein's cell shortly
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after his body was found, and nearly all of the
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visitors he saw in the days leading up to his death. Now,
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why wouldn't you talk to everybody that was there, especially
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the other inmates. Two witnesses who did provide eyewitness accounts
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with their lawyers present, were in the cell directly across
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from Epstein the night he died. One describes seeing Thomas,
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the first corrections officer on the scene, and to Epstein's
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cell and began performing CPR, only to emerge holding a
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rope and a defibillator. The other said he saw Thomas
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enter and shake Epstein. He said Thomas tried to pick
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Epstein up but fell over. He then began giving chess compressions.
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The inmates said. The accounts which appear in the official
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report do not explain what is seen in photos of
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the jail tier, their cell windows covered by paper that
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could have obscured any of you outside. It's not clear
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if the cell window was papered over at the time
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after Epstein's death, but before the first photos were snapped.
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The Bureau of Prisons declined to comment. Now why would
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they decline to comment. It's not an ongoing investigation anymore.
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What are they hiding? And you know what really gets me,
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I think they forget that they work for us. This
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isn't their information to guard, this is our information, taxpayer information.
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We pay for all of it, so guess what quipy
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at assholes and pony it up. Attempts to reach Thomas
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were unsuccessful. A lawyer for his former coworker, Tovin Noel,
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said she would not comment. The former officers agreed to
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be interviewed by investigators in twenty twenty one as part
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of a deal that saw prosecutors drop charges of falsifying
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records related to mande Tory checks on Epstein and other
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inmates after falling asleep on the job. Imagine, imagine that shit.
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No real punishment here, They get to go on with
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their lives, probably getting some kind of pension in shit,
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and here we are left with all these questions and
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no answers. Other staffers with first hand knowledge of the
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scene and other events, were never contacted by federal investigators,
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according to interviews with CBS News, that's because they had
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their narrative in place from the jump. They knew what
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this was going to be, and they called it from
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the very beginning what they wanted it to be, a suicide,
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even though there was never any real investigation. Investigators also
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decided not to interview some of Epstein's visitors. Several sources
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told CBS News the inmates spent the bulk of his
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daylight hours with a large rotating cast of attorneys, including
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on the day before his death. The younger lawyers were
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there not only to provide counsel, but also to basically
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hold his hand and babysit. According to ones, they ke
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Epstein company, chatting with him about life, politics, literature, and
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any other topic that came to his mind. You'd think
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if the investigation was a priority, they'd want to take
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a run at the younger people who were working for him,
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One source told CBS News nothing. One lawyer who visited
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Epstein nine days before his death was David Shown. He
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said Epstein told him he was actively planning to fight
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the criminal charges levied against him. And this is what
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we've heard from so many people, that Epstein planned on
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fighting these charges, and this is why I've said that.
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In my view, I don't have anything to base it
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on other than anecdotal I don't think he committed suicide
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because he was engaged in the idea of fighting the case.
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Sean said, he hired me, and to kill himself nine
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days later wouldn't have made much sense. While Many who
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were close to Abstein have publicly questioned that he died
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by suicide. Barrs said it was and remains the most
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logical conclusion. The alternative would have been too componplicated. Bar
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said in his August deposition, Yeah, too complicated. Huh. Let
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me break it down. Nicholas Tartaglioni put in the cell.
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Nicholas Tartaglioni assaults Jeffrey Epstein and tells them either you
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kill yourself or we'll do it for you. Jeffrey Epstein
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gets moved to a different cell, has time to think
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about it, maybe gets a kite, maybe gets a message
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from another inmate or Tartaglioni himself, who knows, And from
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there Epstein realizes that his options are limited. So instead
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of waiting for the inevitable, did he kill himself because
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he was prompted to? You want to talk about the
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most likely conclusions? Huh? This would have required coordination from
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probably two dozen people, maybe within the prison, and all
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these people were in different groups. Bar said, you know,
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the people who were repairing the cameras, the people who
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you know were responsible for opening and closing the door.
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The people who are responsible for putting in a new
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cell mate, things like that. So the idea here is
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to make sure that there's a no blame to go around,
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but not one single person to put the blame on,
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and that gives them the plausible deniability they're always looking for,
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and that's what this is here, plausible deniability. Does anyone
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really believe this narrative, especially nowadays with all the information
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that's coming out. I know I don't, and from the
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emails that I get from you folks, I know you
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don't either. And you know, sometimes I just sit back
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and think about how this whole thing went down, Epstein's death,
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the investigation, the silence that followed, and it just feels
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like one big reminder that the rules don't mean a
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damn thing when power is involved. Folks like us get
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crushed under the system for the smallest mistake, but the
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people who built that system, they walk through the fire untouched,
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even when their fingerprints are all over the crime scene.
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It's like there's two versions of justice in this country,
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one for them, one for the rest of us. And
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Epstein's so called suicide was the perfect example of that.
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You can't tell me that a guy who had that
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much dirt on the world's elite, sitting in his sell
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where every inch should have been watched, somehow managed to
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pull off the impossible while every safeguard magically failed at once.
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That wasn't a coincidence, in my opinion. It's orchestration, the timing,
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the silence, the way every institution from the Bureau of
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Prisons to the DOJ closed ranks and said case closed.
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You could practically hear the door slam shut on the truth.
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And the worst part, nobody seemed surprised. That's how broken
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things are. We expect corruption now, we expect lies. We
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just hope that the lies are creative enough to make sense.
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And this one wasn't even that. And when they tell
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you to move on, well, you know, that's when they're scared,
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scared of what could come out if people really dug deep,
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Scared of what happens when the average Joe stops buying
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their story, because underneath all the press releases and political
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double speak, there's a truth sitting there, ugly as hell
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and impossible to ignore. They didn't just fail to protect Epstein.
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They protected his secrets that he took with them, and
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those secrets belong to people, so powerful, so insulated that
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even his death became just another tool in the kid.
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So yeah, maybe Epstein's gone, but the system that made him,
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protected him, and then cleaned up after him, that's still here,
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still humming along, still telling us to trust the process.
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But the process is a problem. The investigation wasn't a failure.
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It was a performance, a stage play for the public,
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designed to look like accountability while the real players vanished
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behind the curtain. And we've all seen enough of this
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show to know how it ends, with the truth buried,
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the file sealed, and the same people sitting at the
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top untouched. Look, at the end of the day, you
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can't call it justice if it doesn't apply to the powerful.
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Epstein's death wasn't the end of the case. It was
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the erasure of one. And the longer that they tell
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us to let it go, the more I know we're
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right not to, because every unanswered question, every broken camera,
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every lie that doesn't add up, it all points to
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the same ugly truth. Justice wasn't served, It was silenced,
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and until that changes, this country is just running on
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fumes and fairy tales. All of the information that goes
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