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 Epsteins unit every half hour when they actually werent, according to a person familiar with the probe into his death.
Surveillance video reviewed after the 66-year-old financiers 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 wasnt 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 Epsteins 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.
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Question: were other logs falsified?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Where are the tapes/videos?
duforsure
(11,885 posts)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.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Botany
(70,581 posts)This did not happen in vacuum.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,592 posts)Money is a great motivator, especially if you think there's no way you'll get caught.
Botany
(70,581 posts)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)more security guards? States and Federal facilities are never staffed correctly, well anymore. Another stupid decision.
backtoblue
(11,345 posts). .to make way for private prisons
Hugin
(33,198 posts)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
(45,528 posts)since they're definitely going down for it, not the wealthy shadowy figures who ordered it.
Chakaconcarne
(2,462 posts)moniss
(4,274 posts)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
(23,155 posts)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)They sure are doing a terrible job of assuaging our fears.
TalenaGor
(1,104 posts)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....