The Epstein jail video is problematic

The key paragraph:

While brief movement is occasionally visible on the stairs when someone is walking up the left side, the area remains mostly obscured throughout the recording, making it impossible to determine if someone may have entered the SHU through the primary entrance and accessed the staircase without ever being captured on the recording.

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Without visual evidence, the case relies on the word of staff members [Tova] Noel and [Michael] Thomas that no one entered. At one point the Justice Department noted both of them appeared to have fallen asleep, although Noel denies this.

Jim Stafford, a video forensics expert, reviewed the footage and the inspector general's report and told CBS News, "To say that there's no way that someone could get to that — the stair up to his room — without being seen is false." Four other leading video forensics experts interviewed by CBS News concurred.

  CBS

Other discrepancies that look like a possible coverup are identified in the assessment, including the 3-minute gap in the film is analyzed to actually be 8 minutes, and several lies guard Noel told investigators. She could be lying to cover her mistakes, and she could be lying to cover someone else's activity.

There are videos from other cameras that have not been released.

This is not going away.

It wasn't just one minute

 

Jeffrey Epstein suspicions will not die soon

 

UPDATE 07/12/2025:

Well, this should put it to rest...

LOL

UPDATE 07/13/2025:

Jeffrey Epstein cover-up

[Former cop — and alleged quadruple murderer —] Nicholas Tartaglione, was briefly Epstein’s cellmate at the Metropolitan Correctional Center after the financier was arrested on sex trafficking charges. During that time, depending on which news reports you find credible, Tartaglione either attempted to kill Epstein or prevented Epstein from killing himself the first time he tried suicide.

Facing a potential death sentence, Tartaglione is now fighting in court for access to surveillance video showing what happened in the cell and how staff responded to it. He also wants his legal team to have walk-through access to the cell. His team feels it will help him present mitigating factors if he is convicted.

The problem with that is the notorious prison is currently on lockdown due to contraband issues.

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For reasons that are not entirely clear, the alleged quadruple murderer was paired up in a cell with Epstein.

  McClatchy

I can think of a reason.

Epstein was found incapacitated last July 23 in what was reported to be a suicide attempt. (For reasons equally unclear, Epstein was taken off suicide watch soon afterward and was found dead in his single-inmate cell on Aug. 10.)

Same reason.

Tartaglione’s chief defense lawyer, Bruce Barket, strongly denied that his client harmed Epstein and demanded to both tour the cells and see video that he said will show his client tried to save Epstein during the financier’s abortive suicide try.

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But the Bureau of Prisons, after saying it had located the video, later said it had not and that it was inadvertently destroyed.

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The Epstein events have complicated both the defense and prosecution of Tartaglione, who after nearly four years in jail looks nothing like the Hulk-like bodybuilder he once was.

This is simply asking us to believe entirely too much bullshit.

Please recall that his "first suicide attempt" was originally him reporting that his cellmate tried to strangle him.  And that his second "suicide attempt" supposedly succeeded (in him strangling himself) while two guards were sleeping on the job and two cameras that might have captured some activity were both "broken".

Too many people high up in power positions around the globe, including the US president, were connected to Jeffrey Epstein and his sexual predation parties to believe all this is coincidence.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

With Barr investigating Epstein's death, Trump is safe

US Attorney General William Barr has said he initially had his own suspicions about financier Jeffrey Epstein's widely-speculated-on death while behind bars at one of the most secure jails in the United States, but came to conclude that his suicide was the result of "a perfect storm of screw-ups".

  alJazeera

That was always going to be his conclusion.

Barr's comments come days after two correctional officers who were responsible for guarding the wealthy financier when he died were charged with falsifying prison records. Officers Tova Noel and Michael Thomas are accused of sleeping and browsing the internet - shopping for furniture and motorcycles - instead of watching Epstein, who was supposed to be checked on every 30 minutes.

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A lawyer for Thomas, Montell Figgins, said both guards are being "scapegoated".

That's a name worthy of a Dickens character.

The attorney general also sought to dampen conspiracy theories questioning whether Epstein really took his own life, saying the evidence proves Epstein killed himself. He added that he personally reviewed security footage that confirmed that no one entered the area where Epstein was housed on the night he died.

And we all know AG Barr is totally honest and beyond reproach.

Epstein was placed on suicide watch after he was found July 23 on his cell floor with bruises on his neck but was taken off the heightened watch about a week before his death - meaning he was less closely monitored but still supposed to be checked on every 30 minutes. He was required to have a cellmate, but he was left alone after his cellmate was transferred out of the MCC on August 9, the day before his death, the indictment said.

No holes in that scenario. Not to mention, Epstein claimed the bruises on his neck from the July 23 incident were from his cellmate choking him.

The Justice Department is still investigating the circumstances that led to the death, including why Epstein wasn't given a cellmate.

"I think it was important to have a roommate in there with him and we're looking into why that wasn't done, and I think every indication is that was a screw-up," Barr said. "The systems to assure that was done were not followed."

Just another screwup.

Even with his death, federal prosecutors in New York have continued to investigate the allegations against Epstein. Barr, who has promised to aggressively investigate and bring charges against anyone who may have helped Epstein, said investigators were making good progress in the case.

"They are definitely pushing things along," Barr said. "I'll just say there is good progress being made, and I'm hopeful in a relatively short time there will be tangible results".

That don't involve connecting Trump to Epstein's child sex abuse business.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.


UPDATE 1/9/20:



A few too many coincidences.

Uh oh

Two correctional officers who were guarding Jeffrey Epstein's cell were charged by federal prosecutors on Tuesday with making false records and conspiracy.

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Authorities have charged Michael Thomas and Tova Noel with making false records and conspiracy. The two worked as jail guards at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a federal jail in Manhattan that's mostly used for defendants awaiting trial.

According to video surveillance footage obtained by prosecutors, Epstein was in his cell unobserved for eight hours before he was found dead. The unit he was in requires that all inmates be accounted for twice an hour.

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According to the indictment, Thomas and Noel sat at their desks and browsed the Internet for furniture, motorcycle sales and sports news instead of monitoring Epstein in his cell, some 15 feet away in the Special Housing Unit.

For about two hours during their shift, footage shows that the two guards were apparently sleeping, authorities said.

It was only when inmates' breakfast was to be served around 6:30 a.m. on Aug. 10 that Thomas and Noel entered Epstein's unit.

"Epstein hung himself," Noel told her boss, according to the indictment.

"We messed up," Thomas said to the same supervisor, the document states.

U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said the two had signed more than 75 separate 30-minute round entries falsely stating that they were monitoring Epstein.

  NPR

Hope they got paid well. I'll be interested to hear what they decide to say when they're actually on the stand.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.


UPDATE 1/9/20:



A few too many coincidences.

"Broken cameras"

The FBI is examining two broken cameras that were outside the prison cell where disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and abuse charges.

A law enforcement source told Reuters that officials are reviewing the malfunctioning cameras from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. The cameras were sent to Quantico, Va., the site of a major FBI crime lab that analyzes forensic evidence.

The news comes after a report that at least one camera outside Epstein’s cell had footage that was deemed unusable.

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Epstein was awaiting trial after being accused of sexually trafficking and abusing several underage girls from 2002 to 2005.

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Epstein’s lawyers told U.S. Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan on Tuesday they had doubts about the New York City chief medical examiner’s conclusion.

Questions have arisen over why Epstein, who was found with marks on his neck in July, was not more closely monitored, though the Justice Department says the financier was cleared from suicide watch by a psychologist.

Reports have also surfaced regarding abnormalities in how he was observed, including one report claiming that guards in Epstein’s unit fell asleep and did not check on him during the time when he is believed to have hanged himself.

  The Hill

Two guards asleep and two cameras broken. Nothing to see here.

UPDATE:



UPDATE 1/9/20:



A few too many coincidences.

Official results of Epstein autopsy

A lot of people are not going to believe it.

The official results of an autopsy showed that the financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in his Manhattan jail cell, the city’s medical examiner’s office said on Friday, determining that the cause of death was suicide by hanging.

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Dr. Barbara Sampson, released a terse statement saying that, after an autopsy and a “careful review of all investigative information,” she had determined the cause of Mr. Epstein’s death was “hanging” and the manner was “suicide.”

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Dr. Sampson, the medical examiner, said on Sunday night that her office had conducted an autopsy of Mr. Epstein but declined to release a determination about the cause of death. A city official said at the time that she wanted more information from law enforcement before releasing her determination.

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Guards on their morning rounds found Mr. Epstein at about 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, prison officials said. He appeared to have tied a bedsheet to the top of a set of bunk beds, then knelt toward the floor with enough force that he broke several bones in his neck, officials said.

  NYT

A lot of people are not going to believe it. And I'm one of them. I'd like to see a re-enactment.

The night before he was found [...] he had been left alone after his cellmate was transferred. The two employees assigned to guard him had not checked on him for about three hours before he was discovered.

Officials said the employees, who have been placed on leave, were sleeping for some or all of that time.

Sure. Whatever.


UPDATE 1/9/20:



A few too many coincidences.

Epstein death: not suspicious at all

An autopsy of the late financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein revealed multiple broken bones in his neck, two people familiar with the findings have told The Washington Post.

Among the broken bones was the hyoid bone, near Epstein’s Adam’s apple. Such breaks can occur when someone hangs themselves, forensics experts told the Post, but they are more often associated with homicide victims who died by strangulation.

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The office of Barbara Sampson, New York City’s chief medical examiner, completed an autopsy of Epstein’s body Sunday and listed the cause of death as “pending,” according to the Post.

  The Hill

And who do we have in charge of investigating? Bill Barr. Don't expect anything better than the mmagic bullet that killed JFK.

Attorney General William Barr, whose agency oversees the facility where Epstein died, has called his death an “apparent suicide.”

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Barr announced Saturday the Justice Department had directed both the FBI and the agency’s inspector general to open probes into the death. He later ordered the Bureau of Prisons to temporarily reassign the warden at the New York federal prison and place two staff members assigned to Epstein’s unit on administrative leave.

Will they be accesible to the media?

Jeffrey Epstein told his lawyers that a hulking ex-cop inflicted the injuries that left him nearly unconscious in his cell last month, a source close to the convicted pedophile’s case told The Post.

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At the time, Epstein was sharing a cell with former Westchester County cop Nicholas Tartaglione, who faces a death penalty trial in four drug-related slayings upstate.

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Epstein was treated for neck injuries following the July 23 incident inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan, law enforcement officials have said.

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Tartaglione’s lawyer, Bruce Barket, disputed that account, saying, “I spoke to his lawyers and they never hinted at that to me, but he must have said something to get off suicide watch.”

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Barket added: “We were a little worried that he would make up something to get out of suicide watch or try and argue for bail, but it’s pretty clear what happened, given the end result here.”

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Judge Richard Berman, who was overseeing the child sex trafficking case against Epstein, released a Monday letter to the MCC’s warden in which he said that what happened on July 23 remained an “open question.”

“To my knowledge, it has never been definitively explained what the [Bureau of Prisons] concluded about that incident,” Berman wrote.

  NY Post

Indeed.

UPDATE:

UPDATE 1/9/20:



A few too many coincidences.