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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Splooge ago
So basically, not only did the security cameras stop functioning, the security personnel stopped functioning too.
This just gets better and better.
kazza64 ago
thats why i think he's still alive
Splooge ago
Same here.
This thing doesn't end with Epstein, but the (((figures))) highest up in the food chain are cleaning house.
Other ZOG personnel (probably in similar situations to Epstein, potentially on the verge of getting caught) are watching all this closely. They must keep silent or the whole thing comes apart.
If Epstein was truly killed, then the others would have no reason to remain silent; they'd speak out. So they needed a big flashy show to demonstrate that if they keep quiet, they'll be taken care off. Epstein's "death" and subsequent escape shows them that they'll be okay no matter how dire things get.
jealoushe ago
I think they want to be the ones to kill JE
kazza64 ago
its a psyop from the minute he was attacked the first time the whole thing was orchestrated and fed to us via the always every present convenient media which they control