AP sources: Epstein jail guards had been offered plea deal
Source: AP
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK November 16, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) Federal prosecutors offered a plea deal to two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein on the night of his death, but the officers have declined the offer, people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
The existence of the plea offer signals the Justice Department is considering criminal charges in connection with the wealthy financiers death at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York in August. The citys medical examiner ruled Epsteins death a suicide.
The guards on Epsteins unit are suspected of failing to check on him every half hour, as required, and of fabricating log entries to show they had. As part of the proposed plea deal, prosecutors wanted the guards to admit they falsified the prison records, according to the people familiar with the matter. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to publicly discuss the investigation.
The U.S. attorneys office in Manhattan had no comment on the plea offer.
Both guards were working overtime because of staffing shortages. They have been placed on administrative leave while the FBI and the Justice Departments inspector general investigate the circumstances surrounding Epsteins death. The 66-year-old had been awaiting trial on charges of sexually abusing teenage girls.
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Corgigal
(9,291 posts)It shouldnt be hard. I mean they had 2 cameras,
Oh...
RockRaven
(14,784 posts)(a la "Epstein did not kill himself" memes)
Or do they genuinely believe they can beat the charges of falsifying records (if, in fact, such charges were ever filed)?
ToxMarz
(2,154 posts)I'm sure someone would like a plausible explanation how he could have (ie. a coerced plea deal of wrongdoing with the guards) to muddy the waters.
Kind of like a public announcement of Ukraine President into corruption investigation of Biden. What happens after that is irrelevant they just need that obfuscation.
I would rather see the proof of wrong doing than a plea deal and nothing to corroborate it.
aeromanKC
(3,307 posts)HHMM???
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)If you want someone to testify, you DONT CHARGE THEM WITH A CRIME.
Because if you charge someone with a crime, thats the best way to get them NOT to testify.
So weird how folks must think its common for defendants to testify. Yes it happens, but rarely.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)The rest of us learned it from from prime time television. Our understanding of procedure is predictably skewed toward the dramatic.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)exboyfil
(17,857 posts)This is one. Find some good prosecuting attorney with no connections to this society or Washington. Someone from the midwest maybe.
Scotch-Irish
(464 posts)Get to the bottom of the Epstein/tRump/Acosta/Putin/Manafort connections, and you'll see the sun come out!
nilram
(2,879 posts)you want to get something back? Like, you cop to a lesser charge of X, so you can testify freely against Mr Big? I don't see what We The People would get out of a deal in this case.
Princess Turandot
(4,784 posts)The "Peoples' deal" is saving the time and cost of a trial. Consider the number of people in prison for lower level drug offenses. Most of them weren't tried. They were offered a deal and their attorneys convinced them to take it.
DOJ wants to blame someone for the negligence that allowed for Epstein's suicide. The guards would have been a good start, and they hoped to do so by having them admit to not checking on him etc.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Trials are not really a common feature of the criminal justice system.
Trying and locking up a couple of guys for shirking work in a shitty job is not the best use of resources. Imagine explaining this away in their next interview for an even shittier job.
stopdiggin
(11,095 posts)Suspect an decent lawyer is telling them to sit tight.
orleans
(33,987 posts)usaf-vet
(6,094 posts)Botany
(70,295 posts)... be a shame if something happened." And then they were shown pictures of their families, homes,
cars, and what else. And if they went to the FBI their stories would get to Bill Barr who is the A.G. of
the D.o.J. and he is a fixer for the Trump crime family.
Vinca
(50,172 posts)Botany
(70,295 posts)..... he said that he had no more cantata with him and that information was coming out that
Epstein used Trump's plane to move young girls around that he wound up dead. BTW Jeff's
death one week after Bill Barr had visited the Fed. jail in NYC where Epstein was staying.
If you have a few watch the video that is posted in this thread ... tons of links to Trump and
or Trump's friends and or business partners.
Vinca
(50,172 posts)Polybius
(15,239 posts)Who knows who else would have came out.
Kid Berwyn
(14,653 posts)Speaking of evidence.
Opel_Justwax
(230 posts)I'm talking about the falsified logs not Epstein's suicide.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)Cameras broken and someone heard Epstein screaming. Murdered because of who he would implicate, and the names of his clientele are very well known. Wonder how many GOOP Christians were in there? Who paid the guards for not being present and now their silence? BTW, Prince Andrew is not looking too well in all this. Hopefully "clients" like Derschowitz are being looked into. These girls' trauma needs to be heard and their abusers exposed.