Prison guards assigned to monitor Jeffrey Epstein on the night he apparently killed himself fell asleep and failed to check on him for three hours before falsifying records to cover up their neglect, according to officials.
The two guards have been placed on leave and the warden of New York City’s Metropolitan Correctional Centre (MCC) has been reassigned as federal authorities investigate the financier’s death, the Justice Department has announced.
It comes amid mounting evidence of failures at the chronically understaffed prison which allowed the 66-year-old to take his own life as he awaited trial on charges of sexually abusing teenage girls.
Epstein, who had attempted to take his own life in July, was taken off a suicide watch last month for reasons that have not been explained and should have been checked on by a guard every 30 minutes.
Investigators have learned those checks were not done for three hours before he was found hanged at 6.30am on Saturday, according to a person familiar with the case.
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NowThatsInteresting ago
It’s a narrative the media are pushing right now, as if he died because of these two guards not paying attention. If one believes this story then one has to believe he hung himself as well. No way, at least in my opinion.
itsALWAYStheBANKERS ago
I'm sure those two guards will retire without discipline and be able to start working for MOSSAD immediately.
TestForScience ago
I think it's their fallback because they can't change public opinion to "Trump did it."
Lansing-Michigan ago
A high value prisoner like Epstein should have had maximum guards and security...Looks bad for our entire Just Us system.......which didn't look so great before this.
JasonTakesMAGAhattan ago
He's the highest value prisoner that's ever existed. This is too funny.
TestForScience ago
Did you see the new details?
First they said the guards were called away, now they’re saying that they fell asleep.
They’re also saying that those guards falsified the records.
Something else that I don’t believe has an official source yet is that Epstein had paper blanket and clothes, which aren’t strong enough to hang a person with.
The coroner has also come out and said that they can’t make the determination that his death was a suicide. Why would they say that if the cause of death was hanging? They could have meant that they can’t prove that he himself was the executioner, but the way they worded it was... suspect.
itsALWAYStheBANKERS ago
They won't make a determination on cause/manner until all of the labs are in. And a pathologist does a autopsy protocol but essentially the coronor documents the cause and manner
NowThatsInteresting ago
Did Trump actually make any statements regarding Epstein death?
Lansing-Michigan ago
I follow Q and have not seen predictions for him like there was for GHW Bush..........which predicted his death to the second.
RockmanRaiden ago
Qanon was never the only one.
Baby's first anonymous source in becoming a citizen journalist.
I believe this "death" is a white hat move. Epstein and his backers were ready to prolong the case to memory-hole it when some false flags happen. We have these shootings recently, the massive info dump a day prior to Epstein's suicide, and right now it seems ALL the right people are sweating.
itsALWAYStheBANKERS ago
"I follow Q...."
Stopped reading. Boomer cuck fantasy land cuckoldry
kazza64 ago
yes he retweeted terence howards assertion that he was murdered
NowThatsInteresting ago
Thanks, that’s good. At least he’s not calling it suicide. Well done POTUS 👏🏼
kazza64 ago
he copped some shit for doing it
thebassdude ago
He cops shit for every word he utters. It long ago ceased to matter to him, or me.
NowThatsInteresting ago
He doesn’t give shit about those, that’s what I love about him. Says what he thinks, rare for any president in any country.
TestForScience ago
Nothing more than tweets, I believe.