Latest / The Vault: The Epstein Files / Mega Edition: What Did Other Inmates At MCC Have To Say About Jeffrey Epstein? (7/29/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: The millionaire Pedophiles death at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center on
- 0:05Speaker 1: August tenth last year, was officially ruled as a suicide
- 0:09Speaker 1: by hanging, despite murder conspiracy theories circulating widely online. Look again,
- 0:16Speaker 1: I am more than willing to accept that this dude
- 0:19Speaker 1: killed himself. But let's see the receipts. Why was the
- 0:23Speaker 1: crime scene and that's what it is according to the jail.
- 0:26Speaker 1: When someone dies in jail, a crime scene. Why was
- 0:29Speaker 1: it the crime scene preserved? Where are all of the
- 0:32Speaker 1: where's the video of the crime scene? Why were no
- 0:34Speaker 1: body cams on? Why? Why? Why? And why? So until
- 0:40Speaker 1: all of these questions are answered, people have a legitimate
- 0:43Speaker 1: reason and a legitimate right to dig a little bit
- 0:48Speaker 1: deeper to try and get to what really happened here. Nobody,
- 0:52Speaker 1: certainly nobody on this podcast is just scratching the surface.
- 0:55Speaker 1: We're doing deep dives. I'm talking Marianna Trench deep dive
- 1:00Speaker 1: type shit. And so far, the official narrative does not
- 1:05Speaker 1: pass the sniff test, But in interviews with Epstein's former
- 1:10Speaker 1: inmates obtained by the Daily News, they reveal it was
- 1:14Speaker 1: common knowledge in the prison that he was suicidal and
- 1:17Speaker 1: cellmates warned him not to kill himself in their presence.
- 1:21Speaker 1: First of all, why is Jeffrey Epstein around cellmates? Why
- 1:25Speaker 1: does he? I mean, why does he have cell mates?
- 1:27Speaker 1: Why is he around other inmates? Why isn't he absolutely safeguarded?
- 1:31Speaker 1: Would you put el Chapo around other inmates? Hell? No,
- 1:34Speaker 1: for their own safety and for his. With Epstein, it's
- 1:39Speaker 1: mainly for his safety, right. I'm sure Epstein isn't throwing
- 1:42Speaker 1: hands with a leader of the Latin Kings. I'm sure
- 1:47Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein isn't picking up the phone and calling somebody
- 1:51Speaker 1: who's gonna green light somebody else on the main line
- 1:54Speaker 1: because he has that kind of reach. El Choppel, on
- 1:58Speaker 1: the other hand, yeah, that shit might and no doubt
- 2:00Speaker 1: about it. When I say Epstein shouldn't be around other inmates,
- 2:04Speaker 1: that's because I didn't want him to get hurt. I
- 2:08Speaker 1: wanted him to stand trial just like all of you.
- 2:11Speaker 1: I wanted him to sit there across from his accusers
- 2:14Speaker 1: and get stared down by them as they recounted what occurred,
- 2:18Speaker 1: how he abused them, the different levels of pain it
- 2:22Speaker 1: caused them. That's what I wanted, and the government failed.
- 2:26Speaker 1: So even if Epstein did say. He ll say Epstein
- 2:29Speaker 1: did kill himself, and the official narrative is true, did
- 2:32Speaker 1: he really kill himself because the government was so damn negligent,
- 2:39Speaker 1: how can you not toss a little bit of the
- 2:41Speaker 1: responsibility on them no matter what at this point, So
- 2:46Speaker 1: any way you chop it, the official narrative smells like
- 2:52Speaker 1: doo doo. One prison inmate claimed that Epstein was saying
- 2:57Speaker 1: he was going to kill himself because the government is
- 3:00Speaker 1: trying to kill him anyway. Now, remember who we're dealing
- 3:04Speaker 1: with here, Jeffrey Epstein very shrewd. We have lawyers who
- 3:07Speaker 1: came out and said that he was not suicidal. Douglas
- 3:11Speaker 1: Showan has said that, a couple of his other lawyers
- 3:15Speaker 1: have said that, and Shuliac has said the same exact thing.
- 3:19Speaker 1: Now we have inmates on the other side disputing that fact,
- 3:24Speaker 1: saying Jeffrey Epstein was suicidal in fact. So I guess
- 3:28Speaker 1: it basically comes down to folks, who do you believe more,
- 3:31Speaker 1: Who is a more reliable source these inmates that were
- 3:36Speaker 1: in there with Jeffrey Epstein, some of these lawyers and
- 3:40Speaker 1: other people here was talking to, or are none of
- 3:45Speaker 1: them reliable? And we're just never going to get to
- 3:48Speaker 1: the bottom of what happened in that jail cell. Former
- 3:52Speaker 1: inmates also revealed he was also subject to threats and
- 3:55Speaker 1: extortion from fellow prisoners, and mistreatment from prison guards who
- 4:00Speaker 1: made him sleep on the floor. Now that's bunk ass
- 4:03Speaker 1: shit right there, and any prison guard engaging in demeaning
- 4:06Speaker 1: behavior of an inmate should face severe, severe penalties. In
- 4:12Speaker 1: my opinion, these aren't zoo animals, all right, these are
- 4:16Speaker 1: human beings. They might be they might be criminals, and
- 4:19Speaker 1: they might be the worst of society, but I mean,
- 4:23Speaker 1: come on, when you do that kind of shit, all
- 4:26Speaker 1: you do is open up a door for them to
- 4:28Speaker 1: have an appeal and to maybe get out of jail.
- 4:31Speaker 1: So here's an idea. Be a professional, do your job,
- 4:36Speaker 1: get your paycheck, go home, work your twenty five years
- 4:40Speaker 1: and collect your pension. Sources claimed he paid around four
- 4:47Speaker 1: thousand dollars to inmates for contraband cell phones, though some
- 4:50Speaker 1: were never provided. And that's definitely one of the licks
- 4:53Speaker 1: in prison. Right, you're a mark, you're a square, you're
- 4:57Speaker 1: a punk, you're a joke. Well, these inmates, yeah, we'll
- 5:00Speaker 1: get you some contraband, homie. What's up it's gonna cost you,
- 5:03Speaker 1: however much money. Let me get that dough though. I'm
- 5:06Speaker 1: gonna need that up front. My people on the outside
- 5:08Speaker 1: need that dodo right here. Bro, that's you know, the deal.
- 5:12Speaker 1: And then Epstein pays the money. But on the flip side,
- 5:16Speaker 1: he never ever, ever even receives the phone in some cases.
- 5:21Speaker 1: And what can he do about it? Was he gonna
- 5:24Speaker 1: go to the screws, He's gonna talk to the guards. Yeah, right,
- 5:27Speaker 1: he's trying to buy contraband is he going to go
- 5:31Speaker 1: to the people that already already boned him here? No,
- 5:36Speaker 1: of course not so a regular prisoner, their only recourse
- 5:41Speaker 1: is to go to a shot caller in the yard
- 5:44Speaker 1: and try and get help that way. And I'm sure
- 5:48Speaker 1: with enough money, Epstein could have done the same exact thing, right,
- 5:51Speaker 1: because money talks. And if you think the Aryan Brotherhood
- 5:55Speaker 1: or any of these other groups within the prison walls Blackhand,
- 6:01Speaker 1: you think these guys aren't going to take, you know,
- 6:03Speaker 1: fifteen twenty thousand dollars from Epstein to protect him every month,
- 6:08Speaker 1: You're wrong. They most certainly will. It is a vicious
- 6:13Speaker 1: game of politics within the prison walls. Folks. There is
- 6:17Speaker 1: no doubt about that. It is Game of Thrones on
- 6:20Speaker 1: steroids in those yards. They also claim that inmates would
- 6:28Speaker 1: slide notes under his door saying we're going to kill you,
- 6:31Speaker 1: you rapist, you pedophile, while others offered him security for
- 6:35Speaker 1: a fee. And there you go. There's no doubt that
- 6:38Speaker 1: security was offered. Now again, they could have just been
- 6:41Speaker 1: screwing with him too. Offer the security, take the money,
- 6:44Speaker 1: and then let him get stuck. Very possible. But it's
- 6:50Speaker 1: also possible that if he was paying up on time
- 6:53Speaker 1: every month that a group like the Aryan Brotherhood would
- 6:57Speaker 1: most certainly provide him protection. If it's going to fat
- 7:00Speaker 1: their pockets, if it's going to help them buy more
- 7:03Speaker 1: heroin or fentanyl or whatever the hell they're sneaking into
- 7:06Speaker 1: the jail to sell. Hell, yeah, they're going to be
- 7:08Speaker 1: on board with that, because you see, folks, it is
- 7:12Speaker 1: a doggyat dog world. There is no doubt about it,
- 7:16Speaker 1: especially within the walls of a prison, and the fact
- 7:20Speaker 1: that he was getting those notes slipped under the door,
- 7:23Speaker 1: and shit, oh yeah, that would have been the rest
- 7:25Speaker 1: of his life. Zero, there's no doubt about it. He
- 7:29Speaker 1: would have had to go to the shoe, He would
- 7:31Speaker 1: have to be in the protected yard with the other
- 7:33Speaker 1: chomos and pedophiles and rapists and all of that, and
- 7:38Speaker 1: that would have been the rest of his life because
- 7:40Speaker 1: he could not have been on the main line you
- 7:42Speaker 1: see right here. And how any of this is possible
- 7:45Speaker 1: is beyond me anyway, honestly, because he shouldn't he shouldn't
- 7:48Speaker 1: have had access to these other prisoners. But the government,
- 7:52Speaker 1: in their negligent state, seemed to just have a hands
- 7:56Speaker 1: off approach with Jeffrey Epstein, almost like they didn't care
- 8:00Speaker 1: if he was harmed, almost like they kind of wanted it. Huh.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Epstein sixty six, first arrived at the prison after his
- 8:08Speaker 1: arrest on July sixth, twenty nineteen, while awaiting trial on
- 8:13Speaker 1: sex trafficking charges. He was moved to the special housing
- 8:16Speaker 1: unit four days later, which separated him from the rest
- 8:20Speaker 1: of the inmates. There. Exactly, he has to be in
- 8:22Speaker 1: He has to be in the shoe, no doubt about it.
- 8:25Speaker 1: So once he was in the shoe, that should have
- 8:28Speaker 1: ended all of the other bullshit, the extortion, the notes,
- 8:32Speaker 1: blah blah blah. So how many of those notes could
- 8:34Speaker 1: have possibly come in the first few days, how much
- 8:37Speaker 1: of that happened in the first few days. I don't
- 8:39Speaker 1: know your guess is as good as mine, but Epstein
- 8:42Speaker 1: should have always been in the shoe from the very
- 8:46Speaker 1: first day. The government should have understood who they were
- 8:49Speaker 1: dealing with. His cellmate during that time was Nick Tartaglia,
- 9:00Speaker 1: a former police officer facing the death penalty on charges
- 9:04Speaker 1: of killing four men in a botched drug deal. So again,
- 9:08Speaker 1: ask yourselves, why in the hell would Jeffrey Epstein be
- 9:11Speaker 1: selled up? And is celli b a man who is
- 9:14Speaker 1: waiting a death penalty charges for killing four men already?
- 9:18Speaker 1: This dude has no hope right He's already on the
- 9:21Speaker 1: cuff for four deaths. Why would you put a murderer
- 9:25Speaker 1: in with Jeffrey effing Epstein after you already put him
- 9:29Speaker 1: in the shoe. It does not make any sense whatsoever.
- 9:34Speaker 1: Can anyone give me a logical explanation for why this
- 9:40Speaker 1: would occur and why they wouldn't put him in a
- 9:43Speaker 1: jail cell with someone like that dude Bill Mercy from
- 9:45Speaker 1: the very beginning, or a jailhouse snitch, hoping that he'd
- 9:50Speaker 1: rat himself out, But instead you put him in there
- 9:53Speaker 1: with this muscle bound Paisano Guido Gorilla, who has more
- 10:00Speaker 1: steroids juiced into him. It looks like then rich Piana,
- 10:06Speaker 1: And you mean to tell me this is a quality move,
- 10:08Speaker 1: this is a good idea, this is a logical step. Well,
- 10:14Speaker 1: I disagree wholeheartedly. Nicholas Tartaglioni had no business being in
- 10:19Speaker 1: a jail cell with a guy like Jeffrey Epstein. One
- 10:25Speaker 1: prison inmate claimed he overheard Tartaglioni Warren Epstein not to
- 10:29Speaker 1: kill himself while he was in the room, saying, listen,
- 10:32Speaker 1: don't do that shit in here, do it on your own.
- 10:36Speaker 1: So an inmate claims he heard Tartaglioni saying that. But
- 10:40Speaker 1: remember the camera wasn't facing the jail cell. There's no documentation.
- 10:45Speaker 1: Maybe Tartaglioni was joking his ass out and saying that
- 10:49Speaker 1: while he was choking him out. The lay is alibi.
- 10:54Speaker 1: Remember this is an ex cop. This isn't a stupid man,
- 10:56Speaker 1: right this, Nicholas Tartaglioni. You would think he's a pretty
- 10:59Speaker 1: intelligent guy for the most part. You know, shrewd, I
- 11:02Speaker 1: should say, street smart enough to come up with a
- 11:04Speaker 1: plan like this. And maybe he was sent there to
- 11:07Speaker 1: send a message maybe he was sent there to send
- 11:10Speaker 1: a message to Epstein, telling Epstein, look, if you don't
- 11:13Speaker 1: clip yourself, where gonna get you. That's speculation on my part,
- 11:18Speaker 1: but again, nobody can answer why Tartaglioni would be in
- 11:24Speaker 1: a damn jail cell with Jeffrey flipping Epstein. However, on
- 11:31Speaker 1: July twenty third, Epstein first attempted to take his own
- 11:34Speaker 1: life by hanging himself using a strip of bedsheet. Allegedly,
- 11:42Speaker 1: his cellmate Tartaglioni claims that he alerted prison officers and
- 11:46Speaker 1: possibly saved Epstein's life, which is not disputed by prosecutors,
- 11:51Speaker 1: and later told fellow prisoners that Epstein told him he
- 11:54Speaker 1: was going to give him two million dollars in his
- 11:57Speaker 1: will to thank him. Oh yeah, sure. Or that two
- 12:01Speaker 1: million was so he didn't kill you in that JEO cell.
- 12:04Speaker 1: Maybe that's the case. Is that bay off money? Maybe? Again,
- 12:07Speaker 1: I don't know, speculation on my part, but we have
- 12:10Speaker 1: to take into account who we're dealing with here, and
- 12:13Speaker 1: I don't mean Epstein. I'm talking about an ex cop
- 12:17Speaker 1: who is on the cuff for four murder charges and
- 12:22Speaker 1: a drug deal gone bad. This is the guy that's
- 12:26Speaker 1: gonna tell Epstein, hey, don't kill yourself, buddy, I don't
- 12:28Speaker 1: want you to die in here with me. This is
- 12:30Speaker 1: a compassionate man. This is a man who's going around
- 12:34Speaker 1: doing God's work. I mean, I guess maybe maybe everybody
- 12:38Speaker 1: is a great character after all. So maybe he is
- 12:42Speaker 1: this altruistic man who wanted Epstein to live a long,
- 12:46Speaker 1: hearty life. Somehow I doubt it though. However, Tartaglioni's lawyer
- 12:55Speaker 1: said he would be stunned beyond all imagination if it
- 12:58Speaker 1: were true that his client was included in the millionaire's will.
- 13:02Speaker 1: You mean the pedophiles will. And I hope he's not
- 13:06Speaker 1: included in the will, by the way, because that's just
- 13:09Speaker 1: more money that is not going to the girls that
- 13:12Speaker 1: were abused. Epstein was put on suicide watch and moved
- 13:19Speaker 1: to a cell with Efrin. Stone reyis the last inmate
- 13:23Speaker 1: to share a cell with the sex offender. Oh that's
- 13:26Speaker 1: nice a guy named stone reyis huh again, Hopefully this
- 13:30Speaker 1: dude wasn't a murderer. Though, maybe this guy was just
- 13:33Speaker 1: like a blue collar criminal or some shit. You you
- 13:36Speaker 1: would think that's who they would put him in with, right,
- 13:40Speaker 1: His memories of sharing a cell with Epstein, were retold
- 13:43Speaker 1: by his niece, Angelique Lopez, after Efrin stone Reyes passed
- 13:48Speaker 1: away in his mother's apartment on November twenty seventh. All Right,
- 13:52Speaker 1: so right here, I'm skeptical right away. This is a
- 13:55Speaker 1: story of telephone. It was told to the niece by
- 13:58Speaker 1: the uncle, mister Stone Reyes, who shared a cell with
- 14:01Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. So take it with a grain of salt.
- 14:05Speaker 1: Like everything else, right, we can only vet what we
- 14:07Speaker 1: can vet, and then we can only you know, believe
- 14:12Speaker 1: what we believe. And for me, I'm just here to
- 14:16Speaker 1: provide this information for you folks, and then you folks
- 14:19Speaker 1: believe what you want to believe. Right me, personally, I
- 14:23Speaker 1: don't really uh take stuff like this too credible when
- 14:27Speaker 1: it's second third hand. Now it might at you might
- 14:29Speaker 1: be credible, right, but you'll need other sources to verify
- 14:33Speaker 1: and back it up. So again, grain of salt. Time
- 14:38Speaker 1: he said he was a good cell mate who read
- 14:40Speaker 1: a lot and kept to himself. However, according to reyus
- 14:44Speaker 1: niece's account, her uncle said he was very depressed and
- 14:48Speaker 1: mentioned that he didn't want to live anymore. Ray's niece
- 14:52Speaker 1: told the news that her uncle told him, don't do
- 14:54Speaker 1: any of this while I'm in the room, so I
- 14:58Speaker 1: could see that, right if you're if you you are
- 15:00Speaker 1: in the jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein and you're this dude, Reyes,
- 15:03Speaker 1: the last thing you need in your life, especially if
- 15:06Speaker 1: you're getting ready to get out, like obviously Rayes was,
- 15:09Speaker 1: the last thing you need is a high profile inmate
- 15:12Speaker 1: like Epstein killing himself in the jail cell and all
- 15:16Speaker 1: of the eyes turning towards you as a potential suspect
- 15:21Speaker 1: or as the potential killer. So I get that. I'd
- 15:24Speaker 1: be the same way. I'd be like, look, dude, you
- 15:26Speaker 1: are not killing yourself in this jail cell. If you
- 15:29Speaker 1: think you're going to kill yourself in this jail cell,
- 15:32Speaker 1: you have another thing coming. The screws would come around
- 15:35Speaker 1: and I'd have him tied up to the bars with
- 15:38Speaker 1: his shirt and shit before I let him kill himself,
- 15:41Speaker 1: because I got enough problems, right, especially if I'm sitting
- 15:43Speaker 1: in a jail cell. Reyes also claimed that staff were
- 15:48Speaker 1: treating Epstein like crap, making him sleep on the floor.
- 15:52Speaker 1: After his death, a note was found that Epstein's cell
- 15:55Speaker 1: saying that a correctional officer sent them burnt food, and
- 15:58Speaker 1: that giant bugs were crawling over his hands. Again, not
- 16:03Speaker 1: a good look, right for the mcc or the prison
- 16:06Speaker 1: system in general. Now you're going to, oh, you're gonna
- 16:10Speaker 1: have some bugs, this is New York City. But if
- 16:13Speaker 1: it's to the point where they're crawling all over people's
- 16:15Speaker 1: hands and shit like that, that's unacceptable in my opinion,
- 16:19Speaker 1: and it's unneeded. We don't need to have a gel
- 16:23Speaker 1: that's infested with bugs. Let's get it cleaned up, let's
- 16:26Speaker 1: get it fixed. Epstein hanged himself using ripped bed sheets
- 16:31Speaker 1: less than twenty four hours after Reys was transferred to
- 16:35Speaker 1: another detention center in Queens, New York for cooperating witnesses. Ah,
- 16:39Speaker 1: there you go. Reyes was a snitch. This is what
- 16:42Speaker 1: they should have been doing from the very jump with Epstein.
- 16:45Speaker 1: Put him in with a snitch, somebody who has some
- 16:47Speaker 1: life to look forward to on the outside, somebody that
- 16:51Speaker 1: could try and work them for some information. But instead
- 16:54Speaker 1: you put him in with Nicholas tartag Leoni. See the
- 17:00Speaker 1: stark difference here, right, folks. And my only question is why.
- 17:07Speaker 1: When he was released from prison in April, o Reyes
- 17:09Speaker 1: expressed doubts that Epstein could have hanged himself from the
- 17:13Speaker 1: frame of the bunk bed as it wasn't tall enough,
- 17:16Speaker 1: saying that it didn't make sense. However, he said he
- 17:20Speaker 1: couldn't be sure, as sometimes people are fighting something we
- 17:23Speaker 1: know nothing about. I agree about him not being able
- 17:26Speaker 1: to hang himself from that bed. It just does not
- 17:29Speaker 1: it doesn't look like it is something that's feasible to me.
- 17:34Speaker 1: Am I a pathologist? Am you know somebody who knows
- 17:37Speaker 1: about hanging or a phiciation or anything like that. No,
- 17:41Speaker 1: totally not. But from what I've read and from my
- 17:46Speaker 1: position over here in the peanut gallery, it seems like
- 17:49Speaker 1: it would be damn hard to hang yourself in that situation.
- 17:55Speaker 1: In a statement, Epstein's lawyer, Read Weingarten said, if your
- 17:59Speaker 1: information is correct, it is horrifying that such conditions are
- 18:03Speaker 1: generally tolerated in a federal prison within the shadows of
- 18:07Speaker 1: the federal courthouse, the US Attorney's Office, and the FBI.
- 18:12Speaker 1: I happen to agree with this idiot unfortunately about that.
- 18:15Speaker 1: I don't want again. I want these prisons to be
- 18:20Speaker 1: uh not tip top. It's not it's not the you know,
- 18:23Speaker 1: the four seasons, but they should be clean. They should
- 18:26Speaker 1: be livable. Nobody should be sleeping on the floor, and
- 18:30Speaker 1: certainly there should be no infestations of bugs. Besides that,
- 18:36Speaker 1: you know you'll never hear me talking about Oh I
- 18:38Speaker 1: think they need more TV time. Nope. I think that
- 18:42Speaker 1: your behavior should decide what sort of perks you get
- 18:48Speaker 1: while you're a prisoner. If you make an effort to rehabilitate,
- 18:51Speaker 1: you should get more. If you want to be a
- 18:53Speaker 1: scuzzbag your whole life and stay in prison and do
- 18:56Speaker 1: your gang banging and your drug dealing and your extortion,
- 19:00Speaker 1: well hey have at it. You're not gonna get any
- 19:04Speaker 1: extra privileges. I mean, there won't be any like bugs
- 19:07Speaker 1: anymore if I was in charge. But as far as
- 19:09Speaker 1: extra privileges, forget about it. Those have to be earned
- 19:12Speaker 1: in prison. And I think we should move more towards
- 19:16Speaker 1: a system where people actually have a shot to rehabilitate. Again,
- 19:21Speaker 1: not people like Epstein. I'm talking about overall people who
- 19:25Speaker 1: got in trouble for drugs and shit like that. What
- 19:29Speaker 1: would be even worse would be a federal law enforcement
- 19:32Speaker 1: was specifically aware of the threats and extortions and did
- 19:36Speaker 1: nothing to protect Epstein, but rather fought tooth and nail
- 19:40Speaker 1: against any bell conditions so as to keep him in
- 19:43Speaker 1: these conditions. When the government keeps an inmate in their custody,
- 19:49Speaker 1: they are on the hook for protecting them, and I
- 19:53Speaker 1: don't think the government went far enough protecting Epstein. It
- 19:57Speaker 1: certainly looks like they've learned their lesson the second time
- 19:59Speaker 1: around with Maxwell. But with Epstein, no matter if he
- 20:04Speaker 1: killed himself, if he was allowed to kill himself, or
- 20:08Speaker 1: if somebody else did the deed, the fact of the
- 20:11Speaker 1: matter is there was a huge failure on the end
- 20:16Speaker 1: of the Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Justice, and
- 20:21Speaker 1: the whole system as a whole. No inmate as high
- 20:26Speaker 1: profile as Jeffrey Epstein should ever be in a jail
- 20:30Speaker 1: cell with Nicholas Tartaglioni. Jeffrey Epstein should have been in
- 20:36Speaker 1: a jail cell with somebody like this, mister Reyes or
- 20:39Speaker 1: mister Mercy. Instead, the government was negligent in their duties,
- 20:45Speaker 1: and Jeffrey Epstein died in their custody. Whether it be
- 20:53Speaker 1: suicide or murder, the fact remains that Jeffrey Epstein was
- 21:02Speaker 1: in the custody of the United States government, and the
- 21:05Speaker 1: United States government failed the survivors failed society and failed
- 21:13Speaker 1: in their duties to keep one of the most high
- 21:16Speaker 1: profile inmates safe to face the justice that he so deserved.
- 21:24Speaker 1: It's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
- 21:29Speaker 1: In today's episode, we're going to hear from a woman
- 21:32Speaker 1: named Judith Miller, who served time at the MCC and
- 21:37Speaker 1: was also a inmate in the federal prison system, and
- 21:42Speaker 1: she has a few opinions about Jeffrey Epstein's alleged suicide
- 21:46Speaker 1: and what went down in that jail cell. This article
- 21:50Speaker 1: is from I on the News, and like I said,
- 21:53Speaker 1: the author is Judith Miller. It was originally posted on
- 21:57Speaker 1: August eleventh of two thousand and nineteen. Here are a
- 22:02Speaker 1: few things I know firsthand about being in jail. First
- 22:06Speaker 1: and foremost, you have virtually no control over your life
- 22:09Speaker 1: and surroundings. You can't get so much as an aspirin
- 22:13Speaker 1: without authorization in most jails. You can't wear a belt
- 22:17Speaker 1: or shoelaces, or keep a razor in your cell. You
- 22:20Speaker 1: have no privacy, no sense of dignity, and no rights.
- 22:25Speaker 1: In a well run jail, high profile prisoners have virtually
- 22:28Speaker 1: no chance of killing themselves. That is a fact when
- 22:32Speaker 1: a jail is run efficiently and a facility is run
- 22:36Speaker 1: with care, and people take the time in positions of
- 22:40Speaker 1: power to make sure they're doing the right thing, inmates
- 22:43Speaker 1: shouldn't be killing themselves. And even at the MCC with
- 22:47Speaker 1: it being such a damn dump, it wasn't like this
- 22:50Speaker 1: was a big problem there, like a whole bunch of
- 22:52Speaker 1: people were killing themselves on a regular basis and it
- 22:56Speaker 1: was causing all kinds of you know, grief in the system.
- 22:59Speaker 1: That's not what was occurring. So to pitch Jeffrey Epstein's
- 23:02Speaker 1: alleged suicide as just, you know, a shrug of the
- 23:05Speaker 1: shoulders and well it was expected is ridiculous to me.
- 23:13Speaker 1: So the alleged suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, the sixty six
- 23:16Speaker 1: year old pedophile with powerful American and foreign friends who
- 23:20Speaker 1: was about to stand trial for allegedly sexually abusing dozens
- 23:24Speaker 1: of girls, many of them underage, is particularly unfathomable and outrageous.
- 23:31Speaker 1: In a letter to the Justice Department, Republican Senator Ben
- 23:35Speaker 1: Sass of Nebraska called it inexcusable that Epstein did not
- 23:39Speaker 1: live to face his accusers. For all of Ben Sass's
- 23:42Speaker 1: jawing and all of his yip yappin. I haven't seen
- 23:45Speaker 1: him do one single thing about bringing a commission together
- 23:49Speaker 1: here to listen to what happened. Can we get a
- 23:52Speaker 1: full account about what happened with Jeffrey Epstein, please, And
- 23:55Speaker 1: let's not act like it was just, you know, a
- 23:57Speaker 1: regular old trafficking ring. This as a man who was
- 24:00Speaker 1: connected to the most powerful people in the world, and
- 24:03Speaker 1: all of that needs to be exposed. Obviously, heads must roll,
- 24:10Speaker 1: he wrote. Attorney General William Barr clearly agrees, saying that
- 24:15Speaker 1: he was appalled to have learned that Epstein was found
- 24:17Speaker 1: dead at six thirty am on Saturday morning at the
- 24:21Speaker 1: Metropolitan Correctional Center MCC in Lower Manhattan. Barr instructed the
- 24:26Speaker 1: department's Inspector General to investigate precisely how Epstein died at MCC,
- 24:32Speaker 1: a long troubled pre trial detention facility. So all of
- 24:36Speaker 1: the talk right, heads are going to roll. People are
- 24:38Speaker 1: gonna be held accountable. Nobody has been held accountable. And
- 24:41Speaker 1: even the lowly guard to quote unquote foe of sleep
- 24:44Speaker 1: while they were watching Epstein ended up getting off scott free.
- 24:48Speaker 1: So you didn't even get low hanging fruit here. They're
- 24:51Speaker 1: basically telling you to go get eft as the public,
- 24:55Speaker 1: You're never going to get any information, and if you
- 24:58Speaker 1: ask about what happened here, we're gonna have our lap
- 25:00Speaker 1: dogs over at NPR call you a conspiracy theorist. Basically
- 25:05Speaker 1: what's going on and the fact that anyone would believe
- 25:07Speaker 1: Bill Barr is just beyond me. I remember having this
- 25:12Speaker 1: conversation with conservative friends when Bill Barr was brought on
- 25:16Speaker 1: board by Donald Trump, and people saying how great he was,
- 25:19Speaker 1: how he's been around forever, like that's a good thing,
- 25:22Speaker 1: and how he's part of, you know, the fabric of
- 25:25Speaker 1: the justice system, as if that's a good thing. Again,
- 25:29Speaker 1: I equate it to one of those retread coaches in
- 25:31Speaker 1: the NFL Awade Phillips type. You keep bringing this guy
- 25:35Speaker 1: in expecting different results, and then when shit goes south, well,
- 25:39Speaker 1: who do you have to blame but yourself. Epstein was
- 25:45Speaker 1: placed on suicide watch on July twenty third after being
- 25:48Speaker 1: found semi conscious in his cell with Marx on his neck,
- 25:52Speaker 1: in what prison officials described at the time as a
- 25:55Speaker 1: felt suicide attempt. He was removed from suicide watch six
- 25:59Speaker 1: days later on July twenty ninth, and returned to the
- 26:02Speaker 1: segregated area of the prison with extra security, known as
- 26:06Speaker 1: the Special Housing Unit. Why Epstein was removed from suicide
- 26:10Speaker 1: watch is a focus of the DOJ investigation. It's crazy, okay,
- 26:15Speaker 1: that's a focus of the investigation, But not the fact
- 26:18Speaker 1: that he was in the cell when the alleged suicide
- 26:20Speaker 1: happened or attempt happened with Nicholas Tartaglioni. That's not something
- 26:24Speaker 1: you want to investigate. How old, big muscle ape girla
- 26:28Speaker 1: guy got into the jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein. We're
- 26:31Speaker 1: just going to ignore that fact. And that's why for
- 26:33Speaker 1: the last few days we've been hammering home the point
- 26:36Speaker 1: that nobody has answered the question of why Epstein was
- 26:39Speaker 1: in the cell with Tartaglioni in the first place. While
- 26:44Speaker 1: officials from the Department's Bureau of Prisons, which supervises the
- 26:48Speaker 1: MCC and other federal prisons, have said little about Epstein's
- 26:51Speaker 1: death other than to claim that Epstein hanged himself, officials
- 26:55Speaker 1: told me Sunday that the prison psychological team had evaluated
- 26:59Speaker 1: Epstein on a daily basis after his alleged initial suicide
- 27:02Speaker 1: attempt and had found him to be no risk to
- 27:05Speaker 1: himself or to others. And you see, these are the
- 27:08Speaker 1: little facts that we've seem to overlook in the legacy
- 27:12Speaker 1: media and with their official narrative. At no point did
- 27:17Speaker 1: Epstein seems suicidal to anybody that was around him, psychologists,
- 27:22Speaker 1: his lawyers, or the people that were visiting him on
- 27:24Speaker 1: a regular basis. So it's kind of a big stretch
- 27:28Speaker 1: to say to me, well, the guy's obviously suicidal. He
- 27:31Speaker 1: tried to kill himself the first time, when there's no
- 27:34Speaker 1: proof that that even occurred. So what you're asking me
- 27:38Speaker 1: to do is believe the official narrative. And I have
- 27:42Speaker 1: a hard time believing people that are unbelievable. So whatever
- 27:47Speaker 1: other people want to do, that's fine. I'm not telling
- 27:49Speaker 1: anyone else how they should think or what they should
- 27:52Speaker 1: think about what went down here. I'm just pointing out
- 27:55Speaker 1: that the official narrative has as many holes in it
- 27:58Speaker 1: as a thing of Swiss chief. But it's a big
- 28:02Speaker 1: conspiracy theory to even point that out. Officials said that
- 28:07Speaker 1: Epstein had met for many hours each day with his
- 28:10Speaker 1: legal team, and that both he and his lawyers had
- 28:13Speaker 1: repeatedly assured the prison that he did not want to
- 28:17Speaker 1: kill himself and that asked mcc to remove him from
- 28:21Speaker 1: the suicide Watch now to play devil's advocate. That could
- 28:24Speaker 1: have easily been a scheme by him saying, hey, look,
- 28:27Speaker 1: I'm not suicidal, I don't have any desire to kill myself,
- 28:30Speaker 1: when he really does, and he was doing this all
- 28:33Speaker 1: as a ruse so that he'd be off of suicide Watch.
- 28:36Speaker 1: It's plausible. It is possible, but unless there are some
- 28:41Speaker 1: evidence that proves that, I'm not going to just bite
- 28:45Speaker 1: on what the officials are telling us. The prison has
- 28:51Speaker 1: yet to comment on whether prison officials believe that the
- 28:54Speaker 1: initial July twenty third incident that landed Epstein on the
- 28:58Speaker 1: suicide Watch was in fact a genuine attempt to end
- 29:01Speaker 1: his life. I do not think it was. Honestly, at
- 29:05Speaker 1: this point, I am convinced that it was Nicholas Tartaglioni
- 29:09Speaker 1: who roughed them up. I truly believe that, finally official said.
- 29:15Speaker 1: At least one member of Epstein's legal team was with
- 29:17Speaker 1: him until six thirty pm on the Friday evening before
- 29:21Speaker 1: his death. None of his legal team, Reed Wingarten, mart Weinberg,
- 29:26Speaker 1: Michael Miller, or Mark Furnitch would comment about their client's
- 29:31Speaker 1: emotional and mental state the night before his death and
- 29:34Speaker 1: during the last six days of his incarceration. Now it's
- 29:38Speaker 1: come out after the fact that none of these people
- 29:42Speaker 1: thought that Jeffrey Epstein was suicidal. Nobody that he was
- 29:45Speaker 1: talking to. Officials said that under the prison's rules and procedures,
- 29:50Speaker 1: Epstein was supposed to be given a cellmate and monitored
- 29:53Speaker 1: by prison guards every thirty minutes twenty four hours a
- 29:57Speaker 1: day after being removed from suicide watch. So he had
- 30:00Speaker 1: no cell mate and nobody was monitoring him. Nobody can
- 30:03Speaker 1: and checked on him. So is it the perfect storm
- 30:06Speaker 1: or was this all set up for Jeffrey Epstein to
- 30:10Speaker 1: do what he did? And that's something we have to
- 30:12Speaker 1: keep in mind too, you know, we're all of the
- 30:16Speaker 1: factors put into place so that Epstein could take care
- 30:19Speaker 1: of himself. Tartaglioni sent in there to send a message. Again,
- 30:24Speaker 1: this is all speculation, just like what everybody else is
- 30:27Speaker 1: talking about. By the way, nobody knows what went on
- 30:29Speaker 1: in that cell. Anybody who tells you with a surety
- 30:32Speaker 1: that they do while they're lying to you. But for me,
- 30:36Speaker 1: very easily it could have been Tartaglioni sent to that cell,
- 30:39Speaker 1: sends Jeffrey Epstein a message by choking his ass and
- 30:42Speaker 1: tells him, look, I'm going to kill you. Someone else
- 30:45Speaker 1: is going to kill you if you don't kill yourself.
- 30:48Speaker 1: That is very possible. That is a scenario that could
- 30:51Speaker 1: have played out, and frankly, I think is one of
- 30:53Speaker 1: the more likelier scenarios to have played out. But the
- 30:57Speaker 1: fact is we do not know. Prison experts believe that
- 31:03Speaker 1: having a cell mat helps deter suicide. Neither officials nor
- 31:06Speaker 1: Epstein's legal team would comment on whether those procedures were followed,
- 31:11Speaker 1: but at least one official familiar with the episode said
- 31:13Speaker 1: that they were not. None of them were followed. None
- 31:16Speaker 1: of the regulations in prison or the steps required when
- 31:20Speaker 1: something happens when someone dies were followed. The jail cell
- 31:24Speaker 1: wasn't treated as a crime scene. There was no body
- 31:26Speaker 1: camera footage of them going into the jail cell. All
- 31:29Speaker 1: of it was a disaster. Now. I know people out
- 31:32Speaker 1: there they'll say, oh, it's just a systemic error. You know,
- 31:35Speaker 1: everything's just broken. Well, if that is the take that
- 31:38Speaker 1: you have on it, then are you just okay with
- 31:40Speaker 1: it staying the way it is? Because nothing has been
- 31:43Speaker 1: done to fix it. So if you're not going crazy
- 31:46Speaker 1: that it's broken, then you must be okay that it
- 31:48Speaker 1: is the way it is. Epstein had a cell mate
- 31:54Speaker 1: before his initial alleged suicide attempt, but cellmate Nicholas tar Tagleone,
- 31:59Speaker 1: a former police BAE officer facing murder charges, was not
- 32:02Speaker 1: returned to share a cell with him after Epstein was
- 32:05Speaker 1: placed on watch and then removed from the list, one
- 32:08Speaker 1: official said. That official said that Epstein was alone in
- 32:11Speaker 1: his cell for some time before his death, again in
- 32:14Speaker 1: violation of the prison's rules. They don't even talk about
- 32:17Speaker 1: Tartaglioni rough and Epstein up here. That is exactly what
- 32:20Speaker 1: Epstein said. Remember Nicholas Tartaglioni rough me up if he
- 32:25Speaker 1: wanted to, you know, the suicide watch situation, why would
- 32:28Speaker 1: he say that. So again, it just doesn't make sense,
- 32:32Speaker 1: and there are so many holes in the official narrative
- 32:35Speaker 1: that questions have to be asked. If confirmed. Such disclosures
- 32:41Speaker 1: about what appear to be failures in Epstein's detention at
- 32:44Speaker 1: MCC can only intensify questions and suspicions about his death.
- 32:48Speaker 1: This facility is known for being deeply troubled. One official said,
- 32:52Speaker 1: though Others cautioned that the DOJ and the prison's own
- 32:55Speaker 1: investigations were in its initial stages, and that facts could
- 32:59Speaker 1: change as the inquiry progressed, or they could get stashed
- 33:03Speaker 1: if it's something that the DOJ doesn't like, something that's
- 33:05Speaker 1: going to embarrass the DOJ. Imagine if the people of
- 33:09Speaker 1: America had the ability to audit the DOJ the way
- 33:13Speaker 1: that IRS can audit you boy, oh boy, That would
- 33:16Speaker 1: change things, wouldn't it. My own relatively small brush with
- 33:22Speaker 1: America's justice system was profoundly different from Epstein's. Unlike him,
- 33:26Speaker 1: I was jailed voluntarily. Then a journalist with The New
- 33:30Speaker 1: York Times. I chose to spend three months at Alexandria
- 33:33Speaker 1: Detention Center near Washington in two thousand and five rather
- 33:37Speaker 1: than identify my sources to an over zealous prosecutor pursuing
- 33:41Speaker 1: the leaking of classified information. So they'll go after journalists, right,
- 33:46Speaker 1: no problem, But they have a big problem going after
- 33:49Speaker 1: their friends in the banking system. Tells you everything you
- 33:52Speaker 1: need to know. Epstein, having escaped real incarceration for years
- 33:57Speaker 1: since his first conviction in Florida in two thousand on
- 34:00Speaker 1: state charges of solicitation of prostitution from a minor, had
- 34:04Speaker 1: no choice but jail. After his initial conviction in Florida. However,
- 34:09Speaker 1: he broke her a much criticized deal that enabled him
- 34:12Speaker 1: to avoid federal charges and spend only thirteen months behind bars.
- 34:17Speaker 1: Even then, he was permitted to leave jail to work
- 34:20Speaker 1: at his office for up to twelve hours a day,
- 34:22Speaker 1: six days a week, while he was still abusing people.
- 34:25Speaker 1: By the way, according to all reports and all accounts,
- 34:27Speaker 1: he was still abusing people. And why did the officer
- 34:30Speaker 1: in Palm Beach that was assigned to him destroy a
- 34:33Speaker 1: bunch of records. I don't want to digress too far here,
- 34:35Speaker 1: but come on, man. Epstein was charged with new federal
- 34:41Speaker 1: crimes on July sixth, after he returned from overseas and
- 34:45Speaker 1: was arrested at Teterborough Airport. Federal District Court Judge Richard
- 34:49Speaker 1: Berman deemed him a flight risk given his vast wealth,
- 34:53Speaker 1: many residences, and high powered social connections, amongst them President
- 34:57Speaker 1: Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew of Britain,
- 35:02Speaker 1: and Leslie H. Wexner, the retail billionaire and an item bell.
- 35:06Speaker 1: Epstein was sent to await trial at MCC and he
- 35:11Speaker 1: should have been Let's not make pretend he shouldn't have
- 35:13Speaker 1: been there. That's exactly where he should have been, waiting
- 35:16Speaker 1: for trial, where it was up to the do nothing
- 35:18Speaker 1: prison guards and the shitty administration to make sure that
- 35:22Speaker 1: this man faced justice, and that didn't happen, and still
- 35:26Speaker 1: no consequences for the people involved. Unlike ADC, a Virginia
- 35:33Speaker 1: state run jail, MCC is one of two federal pre
- 35:36Speaker 1: trial facilities in New York City, this one in downtown Manhattan,
- 35:40Speaker 1: two blocks from City Hall. Known as Manhattan's guantanamo for
- 35:44Speaker 1: holding prisoners charge with terrorist crimes, it has a poor reputation.
- 35:48Speaker 1: In an article published by The Gothamis last year, Jean Theoharis,
- 35:54Speaker 1: a Brooklyn College political science professor who has written extensively
- 35:57Speaker 1: about the conditions at MCC, called facility and American gulag.
- 36:02Speaker 1: She told the Gothamist, if I describe these conditions filthy, freezing,
- 36:07Speaker 1: no natural light, isolation so extreme that you're punished for
- 36:11Speaker 1: speaking through the walls, upsurd rules like prisoners not getting
- 36:14Speaker 1: to see the newspapers unless they're thirty days old, secrecies
- 36:18Speaker 1: so deep that people are force fed, and lawyers can
- 36:21Speaker 1: be punished for describing the conditions their clients are experiencing.
- 36:25Speaker 1: You'd be forgiven for thinking that this was Iran or Russia. Look,
- 36:29Speaker 1: the system is fucked. There is no doubt that it
- 36:32Speaker 1: needs to be fixed. And there's a reason that they
- 36:34Speaker 1: closed MCC. This place was an absolute dump. That said,
- 36:39Speaker 1: it wasn't a place where a bunch of people were
- 36:41Speaker 1: killing themselves. While both ADC and MCC are high security
- 36:47Speaker 1: detention facilities that hold high profile prisoners, my own experience
- 36:51Speaker 1: as inmate number four five five seven zero zero eight
- 36:56Speaker 1: three has led me to conclude that Epstein, inmate number
- 36:59Speaker 1: seven six three one point eight dashed zero five to four,
- 37:04Speaker 1: should have lived to face his accusers, and that in
- 37:07Speaker 1: a well run prison he would have The ongoing investigation
- 37:11Speaker 1: by the FBIDJ Inspector General and the prison itself will
- 37:16Speaker 1: explore whether MCC is among the nation's worst run federal
- 37:19Speaker 1: pre trial facilities, and or whether Epstein may have had
- 37:23Speaker 1: some desire or unwanted help in ending his life and
- 37:28Speaker 1: escaping his day in court. Now, look again, I'm not
- 37:31Speaker 1: sitting out here telling you, oh yeah, he was definitely killed.
- 37:34Speaker 1: I simply don't know, and I want answers. That is
- 37:38Speaker 1: the root of all of it. I want answers, just
- 37:43Speaker 1: like I know you do. I shun conspiracy theories, but
- 37:49Speaker 1: based on the little that prison officials have said so
- 37:52Speaker 1: far and what I know of life in jail, Epstein's
- 37:55Speaker 1: death is deeply troubling. No one should die of unnatural
- 37:58Speaker 1: causes in jail, in a well managed facility. No one would, however,
- 38:03Speaker 1: lure the charges against him and the perverse nature of
- 38:05Speaker 1: his alleged crimes. The Epstein death behind bars should trouble
- 38:09Speaker 1: every American. The investigation must not rest until what happened
- 38:14Speaker 1: is revealed. Well, we know that's not the case, and
- 38:18Speaker 1: we know that they say the investigations ongoing that way,
- 38:21Speaker 1: they don't have to give up any information. But what
- 38:24Speaker 1: have we really seen from the investigators that really confirms
- 38:28Speaker 1: the official narrative or their story of the official narrative.
- 38:33Speaker 1: I haven't seen any receipts, and I certainly haven't seen
- 38:35Speaker 1: anything that makes me say to myself, you know what,
- 38:38Speaker 1: this really has legs and this is more likely than
- 38:40Speaker 1: this because as of now, I am very very agnostic
- 38:45Speaker 1: about what went down in that jail and in that
- 38:47Speaker 1: jail cell, and until we have more evidence, one way
- 38:50Speaker 1: or the other. This will continue to be my position,
- 38:54Speaker 1: all right, folks, It's gonna do it for this one.
- 38:56Speaker 1: If you'd like to contact me, you can do that
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