Update: The FBI is opening an investigation into Epstein’s death according to media reports.
Media reports say @FBI opening an investigation to determine whether proper procedures for the safety of prisoners were in place overnight at the jail.
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) August 10, 2019
And according to NBC News correspondent Tom Winter, Epstein was not on suicide watch when he was found in his cell.
“He was, however, housed in his own cell without other inmates.”
NBC News: Jeffrey Epstein was not currently on suicide watch when he was found in his cell this morning.
He was, however, housed in his own cell without other inmates.
Reported by @jonathan4ny and @anblanx
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) August 10, 2019
Additionally, Robby Starbuck reports that:
“At MCC, two jail guards are required to make separate checks on all prisoners every 30 minutes, but that procedure was not followed overnight, according to the source, who was not authorized to speak on the record.”
Does this sound like a suicide to you?
The SDNY can charge Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators – Ghislaine Maxwell, etc.
This leaves a big question moving forward:
Does the DOJ let the case die with Epstein?
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) August 10, 2019
According to the Washington Post‘s Carol Leonning, “People close to Epstein fear he was murdered…as Epstein told authorities someone tried to kill him in a previous incident weeks earlier. He was described as being in good spirits in recent days…”
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Jeffrey Epstein has died after having reportedly committed suicide in his jail cell, according to multiple news reports, after a gurney carriny what is believed to be Epstein was seen wheeled out of the Manhattan Correctional Center around 7:30 a.m., according to the New York Post.
POST EXCLUSIVE: Photos show Jeffrey Epstein as he’s wheeled into Downtown Hospitalhttps://t.co/uAAoHJTSKf pic.twitter.com/vJqz7p25VR
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) August 10, 2019
The 66-year-old Epstein was was previously placed on suicide watch after he was found “nearly unconscious” inside his cell with ‘marks on his neck,’ according to a Post report from late July. Investigators questioned former Orange County police officer Nicholas Tartaglione, suspected of killing four men in a cocaine distribution conspiracy, in connection with the incident. The former cop claimed to have not seen anything nor touched Epstein.
Needless to say, today’s news is highly suspicious.
As the Wall Street Journal‘s Ted Mann notes, “Even the time of day in this story is shocking. The first check-in on a prisoner who had already attempted suicide once was not until 7:30 a.m.?”
So Epstein failed to commit suicide the first time, is then placed specifically on suicide watch, THEN successfully commits suicide.
Right. Got it.
— Quoth the Raven (@QTRResearch) August 10, 2019
Guess the guards just happened to be looking away from the cctv for an hour or so pic.twitter.com/KjTyMvMTVV
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) August 10, 2019
The apparent suicide comes just hours after a massive trove of documents was unsealed in a case linked to Epstein, in which one of his victims said she was forced to perform sex acts with high profile individuals, including former Maine Sen. George Mitchell (D), former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D), money manager Glenn Dubin and MIT professor Marvin Minsky.
Virginia Giuffre, now an adult, says she was also sent to modeling executive Jean Luc Brunel and the late MIT scientist Marvin Minsky, according to parts of a 2016 deposition she gave. The testimony by Giuffre, who claims she was a “sex slave” for Epstein from 2000 to 2002, expands on her previous allegations, in court filings and tabloids, that she was forced to have sex with the U.K.’s Prince Andrew and Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz. Both men have strenuously denied those allegations. –Bloomberg
He was arrested on July 6 at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on charges of sex-trafficking minors and subsequently denied bail.
This is the most suspicious prison death since Lee Harvey Oswald.
— neontaster (@neontaster) August 10, 2019
Jeffrey Epstein’s victims deserved to see him found guilty in a court of law & deserved for his case to be used as leverage to get justice against other powerful abusers who worked with him to sexually assault minors.
His case should’ve required supervision 24/7. Prison failed.
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 10, 2019
Meanwhile, Epstein’s personal pilots had been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in Manhattan last month, which could be used to corroborate accounts from Epstein’s accusers, as well as his travels and associates.
A conveniently timed sale
While prosecutors claimed that Epstein owns two private jets, the registered sex offender’s attorneys said in a court filing earlier this month that he owns one private jet, and “sold the other jet in June 2019.” Considering that he was arrested after returning from Paris in his Gulfstream G550, per Bloomberg, it suggests that Epstein sold his infamous and evidence-rich Boeing 272-200 known as the “Lolita Express” weeks before his arrest.
According to flight logs, former President Bill Clinton flew on the “Lolita Express” a total of 27 times. “Many of those times Clinton had his Secret Service with him and many times he did not,” according to investigative journalist Conchita Sarnoff – who first revealed the former president’s extensive flights on Epstein’s “lolita express” in a 2010 Daily Beast exposé.
Clinton claimed in a July statement that he only took “a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane” in 2002 and 2003, and that Secret Service accompanied him at all times – which Sarnoff told Fox News was a total lie.
“I know from the pilot logs and these are pilot logs that you know were written by different pilots and at different times that Clinton went, he was a guest of Epstein’s 27 times,” said Sarnoff.
“It would not be surprising to find that some of these flight logs…were likely designed to hide evidence of criminal activity—or perhaps later cleansed of such evidence,” wrote the lawyers for some of Epstein’s accusers in a 2015 court filing.
Investigators may be interested in asking Mr. Epstein’s pilots whether they witnessed any efforts by Mr. Epstein to interfere with law enforcement, according to legal experts. In recent court filings, prosecutors have accused Mr. Epstein of tampering with witnesses, an allegation that Mr. Epstein’s lawyers denied in court.
Federal prosecutors in Miami and Mr. Epstein’s lawyers in 2007 negotiated over the possibility of Mr. Epstein pleading guilty to obstruction of justice, including for an incident involving one of his pilots, according to emails that became public in civil lawsuits. –Wall Street Journal
Meanwhile, prosecutors confirmed in filings that there are “uncharged individuals” in Epstein’s case – which has just gone away – or has it?
So if Epstein’s stuff implicates anyone else, they are well and truly fucked. https://t.co/7OIqY36YeP
— neontaster (@neontaster) August 10, 2019
This is bullshit. #jeffreyepstien was not just a #pedophile he was a #sex #trafficker who trafficked #girls to the #political class of the world and was protected by the same. Is that why his accomplices have not been indicted? The investigations must continue. #justice.
— joshua rosner (@JoshRosner) August 10, 2019
There it is. Another “suicide.”
Same sort of thing happened to his supposed madam’s father, Robert Maxwell. Super criminals sure know how to clean up. https://t.co/TwHBKeQmlk— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) August 10, 2019
And look what’s trending:
everything in those cells is ligature resistant so there’s no place to even secure something to hang oneself
— Water is LIFE (@H_2_Ohhh) August 10, 2019
#ClintonBodyCount pic.twitter.com/0a2OitnTbg
— ✨???✨ (@ilyanaLanai) August 10, 2019
Just be careful with those assumptions, citizen.
Now that the FBI has deemed any conspiracy theorist a “domestic terrorist threat”, as of this morning everyone on twitter is a potential target
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 10, 2019
Source: www.zerohedge.com
Hello!! Last American Vagabond:
My time in America, is drawing to a close, heading back home, across the pond. I felt it important, to share with you, that I have been quite impressed with your level of independent journalism. You are rather an untypical American, in so much, that you don’t spend 95% of your time self-aggrandizing, telling everyone how wonderful you are, which, I personally find 95% of these Independent Journalists do. You base the majority of your information on sourcing, which is good. Critical thinking, delivering good intel, is predicated on supporting intel from multiple sources. There are pieces of evil Jeff’s story that you are not being accurate on, however, I attribute that to the multiple ” go chase me ” stories being put out there to deflect from the truth. I encourage you, if I may, to not get caught up in the ” he was substituted ” story line, as it is an attempt to deflect from the real story. Ghisalane should be overwhelmingly concerned at this point. PLEASE remember, just because a name is mentioned in court documents, or you see a picture of a world stage person with dark monster, does not mean that the individual actually participated in any sexual extortion of underage children. 98% of victims that are coming forward, are truth tellers, 2% are not. It is difficult for us to phathom, however, a very minimal percentage come from such horrible, ugly places, that the wealth of dark monster, was a relief to them. CONTINUE to speak to the truth, for, we do not fail when we do so, we only honour those that cannot speak.