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Julian Englis

(2,309 posts)
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 08:50 AM Aug 2019

AP Source: Epstein jail guards suspected of falsifying logs

Source: AP

NEW YORK (AP) — Jail guards are suspected of falsifying log entries to show they were checking on inmates in Jeffrey Epstein’s unit every half hour when they actually weren’t, according to a person familiar with the probe into his death.

Surveillance video reviewed after the 66-year-old financier’s suspected suicide over the weekend shows guards never made some of the checks noted in the log, according to the person familiar with the investigation.

The person wasn’t authorized to disclose information and spoke to The Associated Press Tuesday on condition of anonymity.

The development comes as the federal jail in Manhattan where Epstein was being held comes under increasing scrutiny in the wake of Epstein’s suicide. Epstein is believed to have killed himself early Saturday at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, where he was awaiting trial in a sex trafficking case.


Read more: https://apnews.com/b8517c35d01743bb9c13b353e3dc9504



Question: were other logs falsified?
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duforsure

(11,885 posts)
2. Just another example
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 09:02 AM
Aug 2019

How Barr failed to do his job protecting high profile prisoners. He can't be trusted, and now he should be called to resign. He's not capable , is a liar, and is corrupt and likely compromised from his dad's Epstein connection, and should have recused himself. Maybe the House over site needs to find out a lot more behind why this was allowed by Barr to happen, and why Epstein got his job with his dad.he should be called to testify and asked if trump was involved.

14. Check the guards' bank account balances for large deposits just before Epstein died.
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 11:18 AM
Aug 2019

Money is a great motivator, especially if you think there's no way you'll get caught.

Botany

(70,501 posts)
15. Trump has many links to American mob (mafia) and Russian mob too.
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 11:46 AM
Aug 2019

Not too hard to think that the guards MIGHT have been approached by "thugs"
and shown pictures of their families and or homes w/a "nice family shame if
something would happen to 'em." In 2016 a very credible young woman re-
tracted a charge that Trump had rapped her as young teen after her and her
family were threatened with harm.

Sometime maybe if you were the guard you take the money and shut up.

But somebody or bodies higher up the food chain might very well helped to set
up Epstein by removing him from suicide watch, leaving sheets in his cell, having a
bunk bed, and taking out his cellmate.

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
5. Who placed the freeze on hiring
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 09:08 AM
Aug 2019

more security guards? States and Federal facilities are never staffed correctly, well anymore. Another stupid decision.

Hugin

(33,135 posts)
6. Yeah, sure... Blame the lower middle class guards.
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 09:11 AM
Aug 2019

Odd how the surveillance video shows them missing rounds, but, doesn't show Epstein slowly choking himself to death leaning off of the top bunk.

It's a cover up.


IronLionZion

(45,433 posts)
7. I bet these guys are wondering if it was worth whatever they got paid to do this
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 09:31 AM
Aug 2019

since they're definitely going down for it, not the wealthy shadowy figures who ordered it.

moniss

(4,231 posts)
10. The guards
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 10:28 AM
Aug 2019

will probably claim that they were afraid to go and check on him because of the screaming and shrieking coming from his cell. Barr of course will eventually exonerate the guards and claim no one could have known that those shrieks and screams were indicative of any need to go and check on a prisoner.

lark

(23,097 posts)
11. 2nd question - who paid them to falsify the logs?
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 10:31 AM
Aug 2019

3rd question - Who made the security system glitch right at the exactly right time to cover up the truth of what happened?
4th - Why haven't autopsy reports been released?

blugbox

(951 posts)
12. It's like... if they didn't want people to be suspicious
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 10:49 AM
Aug 2019

They sure are doing a terrible job of assuaging our fears.

TalenaGor

(1,104 posts)
13. yep blame the workers....im sure its that...
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 11:07 AM
Aug 2019

im sure theres NO CHANCE that they were told to look the other way for a minute.... oh and BTW you're gonna take the fall for this but we will set you up with a NICE severance package....

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