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The Death Of Epstein: Nicholas Tartaglione And How Quickly MCC Cleared Him · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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  When we talk about Jeffrey Epstein's first alleged attempt at
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  suicide while he was in a cell with Nicholas Tartaglioni,
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  there are a lot of questions that still have not
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  been answered, and one of them that I have always
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  asked is how is it that the Department of Justice,
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  the Bureau of Prisons can clear Nicholas Tartaglioni of any
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  wrongdoing when the video doesn't even exist of what happened
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  in that cell, especially considering we know what Epstein said
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  had happened. Epstein, for a quick review, said that he
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  was assaulted by Nicholas Tartaglioni. That's what he told his lawyers.
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  But we get the narrative that he attempted to kill himself,
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  and Nicholas Tartaglioni, acting in his role as batman, the
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  caped crusader, I guess, flew in to save the day
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  and helped Epstein. But if we are looking at it
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  with a clear head, if that's the case, and Tartaglioni
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  was interested in helping Epstein not hurt himself, why would
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  he let Epstein get to the point of even having
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  any sort of device or contraption wrapped around his neck.
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  Wouldn't logic dictate that if he wanted Epstein not to
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  hurt himself, he wouldn't let him do that in the
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  first place. Considering how big he is, considering how strong
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  he is, he could stop Epstein in a moment's notice.
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  But he waits for Epstein to begin to hang himself
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  and then steps in as this superhero, and all of
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  the video just happens to disappear. I'm sorry, but I
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  have a hard time believing that. Folks. Now, if other
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  people out there believe it, Hey, I'm not saying you're wrong,
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  I'm just saying personally, I have a very very hard
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  time believing that. So today, once again hopping in that
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  time machine, and we're gonna spin back to twenty nineteen
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  August sixteenth. Today we have an article by NBC News
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  author Rich Shapiro Jonathan dentst headline Jeffrey Epstein's former cellmate
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  cleared of wrongdoing an incident that preceded his death. The
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  disclosure deepens the mystery over why Epstein was removed from
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  Suicide Watch in the days before he apparently took his
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  own life. Jeffrey Epstein's former cellmate was cleared of any
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  wrongdoing in the incident that left Epstein's semi unconscious in
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  his cell three weeks before his death. According to the
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  cellmate's lawyer and the source familiar with the matter, Boy,
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  that's nice. Hell of a job by the Department of Corrections. Huh,
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  hell of a job by them to clear a guy
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  that shouldn't have been in the cell with him in
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  the first place, without any evidence to do so. Just
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  going on his word, I guess the disclosure amounts to
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  the strongest indication to date that Epstein tried to take
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  his own life on July twenty third, and deepens the
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  mystery over why he was removed from suicide Watch in
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  the days before his death, unless, of course, Tartaglioni was
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  sent in there to send him a message now again speculation,
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  But was Tartaglioni sent in there to tell Epstein, Look, bro,
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  we can get to you. Either you're gonna kill yourself
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  or we're gonna kill you now again. Look. I don't
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  know if that's what went down, but is that so
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  far out of the realm of possibility considering everything we
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  know here, Tartaglioni should have never been in that cell.
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  This is a four time loser for homicide, a man
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  who was caught with contraband in his cell previously to
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  this happening, and then he gets moved to be with
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  the highest profile inmate in the whole lock up. Yeah,
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  we're gonna need some explanations, folks. Epstein, the disgraced financier
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  at Pedophile who was facing federal sex trafficking charges, was
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  placed under suicide watch after he was found in a
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  fetal position with marks around his neck inside the cell
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  he was sharing with Nicholas Tartaglioni, a former upstate New
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  York police officer facing quadruple murder charges. Oh so Westchester
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  County is upstate. Now Westchester County is Yonkers and Irvington
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  and not really upstate. I guess for me, upstate would
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  be more like Clifton Park, or you know, aubeny or something.
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  The incident at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center was being investigated
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  as a possible suicide, attempt, assault, or ruse by Epstein
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  to get himself transferred to a different facility after he
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  was denied bail on the sex trafficking charges. Officials said
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  at the time. So look, dude, I don't believe any
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  of that. Okay, I think that Tartaglioni assault at Epstein.
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  That's what I believe. And unless they can show me
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  the videotape that proves otherwise, that's what I'm going to
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  continue to believe, because what sort of investigation can you
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  possibly have done. Oh, we talked to both of them
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  and we decided that, well, we want to believe Nicholas Tartaglioni. Ah, yeah,
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  because you know, he's such a believable guy. It's like
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  walking into a room and trying to decide who you're
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  gonna believe. The Taliban isis. But Tartaglioni's lawyer, Bruce Barkett,
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  told NBC News that the day before Epstein's death, officials
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  at the MCC informed him in an email that the
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  internal investigation had concluded and his client would face no
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  charges or internal discipline because it would look bad on them.
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  They'd have to answer questions, right, why was he in
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  the cell in the first place, Why do you have
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  Epstein not in a secure area? Why is he off
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  suicide watch? And they didn't want to answer any of
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  those questions. So instead what they'll say is, nothing like
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  that happened. Epstein tried to kill himself. We've always maintained
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  and Nick did nothing wrong, and that's clearly been born
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  out here by the jail itself. Barkett said, Ah, well,
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  you know, because those internal investigations, they're so thorough, and
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  they always come back and implicate people who they were investigating.
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  Said nobody ever, you could take your internal investigation and
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  shove it for all I care. How about an independent investigation.
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  You know, an independent board comes in, independent investigators and
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  they take a look. They'll never let it happen, though,
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  because they don't want to be exposed. The problem for them, though,
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  is their behavior is exposing them. A person familiar with
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  the case confirmed that Barket's account is correct, and a
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  spokesman for the MCC declined comment. Of course they did,
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  and they'll continue to do that. Oh, we have no comment.
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  We don't know what happened here. It's still under investigation.
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  Federal prison officials have released no information on the July
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  twenty third incident. Prison experts said the decision to take
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  Epstein off suicide watch, where he would have been placed
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  in a special cell and observed on a round the
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  clock basis would have been more appropriate if the incident
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  was determined to be an assault as opposed to be
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  an attempt on his own life. So again, if he
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  tried to commit suicide, why did you take them off
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  suicide Watch? So for me, all signs point to this
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  being an assault in this jail cell. I can't fully
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  confirm that. However, what this means is that whatever happened
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  to Epstein was inflicted on himself, said Cameron Lindsay, a
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  former warden at four federal facilities. And it looks like
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  a pretty straightforward case if someone who wanted to die,
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  Oh well, says the warden who has skin in the game,
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  I don't ever trust these ex officials as far as
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  I can throw them. Most of them come out and
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  just do public relations cover ups for their old institutions.
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  Lindsay said the prudent safe decision would have been to
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  kept him, to keep him on suicide watch watch. Gosh,
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  if I were him, I want to be dead, and
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  I'm sure there are multiple multitude of people that would
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  have wanted him to be dead. Lindsay said. It's corrections
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  one oh one. Oh, I'm glad that you know everything
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  about this mister Lindsay. Who the hell is this Lindsay guy? Anyway,
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  the prudent safe decision would have been to keep him
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  on suicide Watch. Well, why was he off? Why was
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  Tartaglioni in the jail cell in the first place. Until
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  somebody answers that question, I don't want to hear about
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  any of the other nonsense. Epstein, sixty six, died last
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  Saturday in an apparent suicide in his cell in a
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  special housing unit where he was supposed to be checked
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  every thirty minutes. The death has brought increased scrutiny on
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  the federal prison system, with lawmakers demanding answers on how
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  a high profile inmate facing up the forty five years
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  in prison could be left alone after a previous incident
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  that raised questions about his emotional state. Well, my guess
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  is this. He was assaulted. The prison didn't want you
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  to know that, so they said it was suicide. But
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  they stepped on their own foot because Jeffrey Epstein was
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  taken off of suicide Watch and then he ended up dead.
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  So when you start with the lies, you got to
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  keep them going right. The FBI and the Justice Department
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  Office of Inspector General are investigating the circumstances of Epstein's
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  death at the MCC. The judge overseeing the federal sex
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  trafficking case asked for details of the incident after the
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  MCC's warden filed legal papers to officially inform the court
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  of Epstein's death. What an absolute nightmare this has been
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  from Jump Street. I remember as it was unfolding, watching
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  it in real time and shaking my head every five minutes,
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  asking myself, what in the hell is going on here?
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  How can any of this be a legitimate way to
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  go about an investigation. One open question, among others, is
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  whether the investigations referenced in your letter will include the
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  incident at MCC involving mister Epstein on or about July
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  twenty third, twenty nineteen. Judge Richard Berman wrote in his
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  response dated August twelfth, to my knowledge, it has never
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  been definitively explained what the BOP concluded about that incident.
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  The warden, who has since been reassigned from the facility,
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  responded the same day, but offered no new information. Of course, not,
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  of course, not, because they're never going to give us
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  the real information. And that's the saddest part about all
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  of this. They don't want to look bad, so instead
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  of bringing it to light so that the problems can
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  be fixed, they'd rather just cover it up. And that's
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  basically what this is at this point, right, a cover up.
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  So you need to tell me that this Warden La
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  Mean and Die should have been shuffled to a different facility.
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  He shouldn't have just faced the music and been held
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  accountable for all of this. I can confirm that an
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  internal investigation was completed regarding the July twenty third, twenty
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  nineteen incident. The current investigations by the FBI and the
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  OIG will include this incident as well, wrote the Warden Lea,
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  Mean and Die. Accordingly, I cannot divulge any information about
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  the private the private investigation at this time, and that's
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  to Congress he's talking to imagine us trying to get
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  information from these people. They don't want to give you
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  any information because it makes them look bad. And then
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  it's even worse when we find out shit went wrong
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  and nobody fixed it anything. So it's just the same
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  old stuff. We should we should just expect the same
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  exact thing to happen over and over and over again,
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  because obviously it's not a big enough problem for them
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  to address it. Meanwhile, the rest of us are sitting
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  here saying to ourselves, how could something like this possibly
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  even happen? And how can it be that they're still
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  obfuscating the truth all these years later? All right, folks,
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  it's gonna do it for this one. If you'd like
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  to contact me, you can do that at Bobby Kapuchi
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