Jeffrey Epstein Board (PLOT)

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Eric Singletary

One more thing, who decided to put Epstein, an accused child trafficker, in a cell with a large ex cop murderer, and why??? Who decided to remove ex cop day before hanging and why??? If purpose of giving Epstein a cellmate was to reduce chance of suicide, why was Epstein not given a new cellmate, after the ex-cop was removed, and left alone??? It would be nice to have factual answers...

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Teresa D Long Hawkes

"...a suicide reconstruction team is at the facility to better understand how Epstein died..."

What trajectory and force would have been required to cause the pattern of bone breaks seen in Mr. Epstein's neck during his death?

[MiamiGent]

Meet Jeffrey Epstein’s gang of accused slave ‘recruiters’
By Isabel Vincent
August 10, 2019 | 8:43pm | Updated

Jeffrey Epstein maintained his financial empire — and his perverted sideline of preying on underage girls for sex — with the aid of an army of alleged enablers, many of whom he kept in one Upper East Side building and lavished with perks.

The convicted pedophile, 66, who died Saturday of an apparent suicide after being found unresponsive in his Manhattan prison cell, frequently took his assistants shopping to designer boutiques in Paris on his private jet.

He paid for unlimited salon services at tony Frederic Fekkai in Manhattan and gourmet take-out meals from Le Cirque.

One assistant received a Mercedes and a nanny for her newborn to make her commute easier.
A battalion of lawyers, pilots and models who worked for Epstein stayed at a doorman highrise in Manhattan — the epicenter of the Epstein empire — in apartments controlled by him and his real estate investor brother Mark, public records show.

Many of the units at 301 East 66th St. were owned by a New York shell company registered in Columbus, Ohio, the home base of Victoria’s Secret owner and Epstein’s billionaire benefactor Leslie Wexner, according to records.
The white-brick post-war building was also the gilded cage where the billionaire trapped and preyed on many of his under-aged victims — sometimes with the aid of his army of enablers.

Girls recruited as models from around the world were brought to the US and the building by MC2, a modeling company run by Epstein pal Jean-Luc Brunel. The company was financed by Epstein beginning in 2003, court papers show.

The girls passed through various apartments in the building where assistants arranged for their work visas, booked travel and modeling jobs. Some were also dispatched for other duties to Epstein’s nearby mansion on East 71st Street, court papers say.

Epstein “was the one who said who stays in what apartment,” said Maritza Vasquez, who worked as a bookkeeper for MC2, in a 2010 deposition made public last month.

“Epstein and Brunel would then obtain a visa for these girls, then would charge the underage girls rent,” court documents say.
According to a cache of more than 2,000 documents unsealed Friday in a defamation case against British socialite and former Epstein gal pal Ghislaine Maxwell, Brunel had more than catwalk appearances planned for some of the girls. He offered up girls as young as 16 for “massages” with Epstein that often wound up as sexual-abuse sessions, according to documents filed in the lawsuit.

In 2005, Brunel called Epstein and left a message that “he is sending him a 16-year-old Russian girl for purposes of sex,” the court papers say.

The message, filed as an exhibit in the case, was written on an office message pad, partly in code, and read: “He [Brunel] has a teacher for you to teach you how to speak Russian. She is 2×8 years old not blonde. Lessons are free and you can have your 1st today if you call.”

Another message from Brunel to Epstein discusses how he had sex with an 18-year-old who had also been with Epstein. “He just did a good one – 18 years – she spoke to me and said ‘I love Jeffrey,’” according to court papers.

Juan Alessi, a former house manager for Epstein, told the court that over a 10-year period, Maxwell brought more than 100 young women that she called “massage therapists” to Epstein’s home. He said that when he cleaned up after them, he found vibrators and sex toys on the massage table.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a self-described Epstein sex slave, who sued Maxwell and claims that she procured her for sex with Britain’s Prince Andrew, said she was also “forced” to have sex with Brunel as well as Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, “and many other powerful men, including numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders,” the documents say.
Among the other girls in Epstein’s harem was Nada Marcinkova, who had been allegedly bought from her parents in Eastern Europe by Epstein when she was 15, according to one of Epstein’s alleged victims.

Marcinkova, who now goes by the name Nadia Marcinko, was one of Epstein’s alleged “sex slaves” and allegedly participated in trysts with underage girls, according to court papers.

Marcinko is now a commercial pilot, and registered her Delaware aviation company Aviloop in 2011 while she was living at the East 66th St. complex.

Another Epstein enabler, Sarah Kellen, allegedly kept lists of young women to recruit as “massage therapists” for her boss, according to court papers. Along with his other assistants, she booked travel for them, and Kellen was a frequent passenger on Epstein’s private jet, flight records show.

Many victims allegedly told police that they were taken to Epstein’s massage room at his Palm Beach mansion by a woman named Sarah. According to authorities, the court papers say, both Kellen and Maxwell warned the girls not to speak about their encounters with Epstein.

After her employment with Epstein came to an end, Kellen started an interior design company — SLK Designs — at the East 66th Street address. She has since married NASCAR driver Brian Vickers and briefly changed her name to Sarah Kensington.

Neither Kellen nor Marcinko has been charged with a crime and both invoked the Fifth Amendment when questioned by authorities about their dealings with Epstein in the defamation case against Maxwell.

In 2007, Epstein sought to protect his closest aides, including Maxwell, when he negotiated his non-prosecution agreement for himself and “potential co-conspirators.” The agreement ensured that none of the women who worked as his enablers would be criminally charged. The federal immunity was negotiated with former Miami federal prosecutor Alexander Acosta, who became President Trump’s Secretary of Labor. He recently resigned over the Epstein agreement

Lesley Groff, another former assistant protected under the agreement, allegedly coordinated travel arrangements with young girls and scheduled massage sessions for her boss. Groff was paid $200,000 a year, received a Mercedes E320 and the services of a nanny after the birth of her child, the New York Times reported.

“Ms. Groff never knowingly booked travel for anyone under the age of 18, and had no knowledge of the alleged illegal activity whatsoever. She is shocked and deeply distraught by the accusations and revelations concerning her former employer,” said her lawyer, Michael Bachner.

“They are an extension of my brain,” Epstein told the Times in 2005 of his assistants. “Their intuition is something that I don’t have.”
In addition to his secretaries, Epstein worked with his longtime lawyer Darren Indyke, who occupied a two-bedroom apartment at the East 66th Street building between May 2000 and February 2009, public records show.
Indyke’s apartment was owned by Ossa Properties, a firm controlled by Mark Epstein.

From an eighth-floor apartment and an office on Madison Avenue, Indyke, 54, registered a dizzying number of limited liability companies that owned Epstein’s $77-million Upper East Side townhouse and a nearby property used by Maxwell, a daughter of press baron Robert Maxwell, and an alleged key recruiter of girls to feed Epstein’s seemingly insatiable sex drive.

With her connections to British royalty and New York society, Ghislaine was also an important companion. She was a former girlfriend who introduced Epstein at elite soirees in London and New York.

Maxwell was accused by three women of procuring girls to work as sex slaves for Epstein in court filings. Two of the women said both Maxwell and Epstein sexually assaulted them. She has not been charged with a crime, and has not been spotted in public since Epstein’s arrest last month. A source told The Post that Maxwell is cooperating with federal authorities.

Epstein was sentenced to 18 months after his attorneys secured a 2008 sweetheart deal in Florida to avoid federal charges that could have resulted in a possible life sentence. He was released on probation after 13 months, during which he was able to go on “work release” to his Palm Beach office for 12 hours a day, six days a week.

Epstein’s millions also gave him entree to important financial institutions. For years, he was the personal financial advisor to Wexner, whose L. Brands empire owns Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works.

When JP Morgan Chase Bank wanted to get rid of him as a client after he pleaded guilty to soliciting a prostitute in 2008, Mary Erdoes, one of the bank’s high-level executives intervened to keep him on, the Times reported last week. JP Morgan denied the charge.

Multiple emails and calls to Maxwell’s lawyers were not returned. Mark Epstein, a Wexner spokesman, and Dershowitz refused comment when contacted by The Post. Brunel, Kellen, Marcinko and Indyke could not be reached for comment.

Epstein was arrested in New Jersey last month, and had pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking charges.

[MiamiGent]

Jeffrey Epstein’s Former Bodyguard: ‘Somebody Helped Him’ Kill Himself

by Amy Furr15 Aug 2019
Breitbart News

Someone helped Jeffrey Epstein commit suicide, Epstein’s longtime bodyguard, Igor Zinoviev, said Monday.
“Somebody helped him to do that,” Zinoviev told the Intelligencer. However, he declined to elaborate on his suspicions, stating, “Listen, you know, that’s going a little too deep.”

Zinoviev said he lived at Epstein’s Palm Beach home for six years but added that he did not care about his former boss’s alleged suicide.

“I’m not sad. I mean, I didn’t have anything against him, like a bad thing, you know? I don’t care about his life completely. I don’t give a, let’s say, like, crap about how he die, how he live, or how he’s managed,” he concluded.

On Thursday, an autopsy revealed that Epstein had several broken bones in his neck, a discovery that raised additional questions regarding his death.

The report stated:
The Washington Post reported late Wednesday that among Epstein’s broken bones was his hyoid, a horseshoe-shaped bone situated near the Adam’s apple in men. Forensic experts told the Post that hyoid breaks are plausible in hanging cases yet are more common in homicide victims who are strangled to death.

On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that although he is not a conspiracy theorist, he believes Epstein’s death was “way too convenient.”

“This makes no sense. He’s one of the prominent prisoners in America, at that point. He had either attempted suicide previously or been assaulted. Either way, it is the same reality,” de Blasio commented. “He needed to be watched 24 hours a day. It’s one of the premier federal facilities in the country. It belongs to the Justice Department. Come on. How on earth do they miss this?”

However, Breitbart News reported Wednesday that prison guards at the Manhattan jail where Epstein was being held allegedly fell asleep the night before his death and falsified documents to cover up their mistakes.

“According to the New York Times, the guards dozed off for three hours, causing them to miss the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s routine prisoner check. They then forged their supervision logs, which could come with criminal charges,” the report said.

[MiamiGent]

Excellent insight, badguy!

[badguy3101]

LMAO! Yeah right my arse!

That medical examiner ruled that way because he too didn't want to suffer a "suicide!"


Politicians like BJ Bill, Killary and the communist/muslim kenyan are PRECISELY the reason why our BRILLIANT Founding Fathers bestowed us the 2nd Amendment.

DON'T YOU EVER FORGET THAT AMERICA!!

2nd Amendment forever!

Trump 2020




The Badguy

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Virgin Islands Senator: ‘Evidence’ from Epstein’s Estate ‘May Have Been Lost’
Robert Kraychik 14 Aug 20193
Breitbart News

Evidence of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and operations “may have been lost,” warned U.S. Virgin Islands Sen. Oakland Benta (D) in a Monday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Matt Boyle.

“What’s going on here is what should have happened a long time ago,” said Benta of federal authorities investigating an island owned by Epstein. “As a result of all that has transpired, the federal government decided [to investigate] now, whether it’s too late or not — because there have been so many people on the island since Mr. Epstein has been incarcerated and, at the same time, there’s valuable information, evidence-wise, that we may have lost.”

Benta added, “What’s going on is that they have seized the island, and they’re moving forward and doing, probably, what you call asset forfeiture, as far as securing what they can.”

Elements of the U.S. Virgin Islands’ government were complicit in Epstein’s crimes, determined Benta.

Benta remarked, “I do pray that once the investigation has taken place, as a result of so many people within this territory who are the leadership of this government, of this territory, hiding behind curtains as parasites, and … bringing young ladies to our shores from elsewhere and destroying their lives at will, with passion, without consideration for the child’s soul. And many individuals who participated in these acts are fathers themselves; they have children as well.”

“I’m very upset that our very government leadership, stewardship of this government, who are part of it — participated and turned a blind eye for financial gain,” stated Benta.

Mansour asked if the U.S. Virgin Islands’ “reputation of being used as a tax shelter” is related to Epstein’s involvement with the territory.
Benta explained, “What has happened with this is the members who are responsible to make sure that the individuals who came in [to the U.S. Virgin Islands] under the program [of economic development] were legitimate, that they, in fact, had the resources as far as what was put on paper, and that they were vetted through Interpol as well as the State Department.”

Benta continued, “What ended up happening was that cash became the access for turning a blind eye and allowing the fraudulent acts to take place on the territory by individuals who did not have what they said they had, and in hiding all of this in hedge funds as they did it, and manipulating and controlling the government of the Virgin Islands. And some senators, who they financed as far as campaigns and other things, a blind eye was turned, and of course, here comes the tax evasion and the fraud … by hiding all that they said they had by fraudulent acts. It was all a scam.”

Breitbart News Tonight broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot channel 125 weeknights from 9:00 p.m. to midnight Eastern or 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Pacific.
Follow Robert Kraychik on Twitter @rkraychik.

[MiamiGent]

Who Is Lamine N’Diaye? Everything We Know About the Warden Who Oversaw Epstein’s Fatal Incarceration
by Penny Starr 15 Aug 2019
Breitbart News

Attorney General William Barr announced on Tuesday that the two guards who were tasked with watching jailed pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have been placed on administrative leave and the warden of the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City was reassigned to the Northeast Region Office in Philadelphia. However, little is known about Lamine N’Diaye, including why he is still working for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

The action comes after Epstein allegedly committed suicide on August 10 following new sex trafficking charges filed against him this summer and a judge’s order that he remain behind bars ahead of a trial scheduled for next June.

One of N’Diaye’s contemporaries believes N’Diaye should not still be on the job, according to a report in the Times Union, based in Albany, New York:

Jose Rojas, a union leader and teacher at a federal prison in Florida, said N’Diaye should be home without pay instead of being reassigned. He said it appears to him that the Bureau of Prisons is “protecting him and putting the blame on officers.”

“I put this on the warden,” he said. “If he would have had common sense and followed policy, we wouldn’t be here discussing this.”

According to Voice of America, prior to his job as the MCC warden, N’Diaye was in charge of the Bureau of Prisons office of internal affairs.

A 2016 article about the Prison Legal News website about prisoners sickened by tainted food in a Pennsylvania prison reports that N’Diaye once worked at the office where he was reassigned:

More than 300 prisoners at the U.S.P. Canaan in Waymont, Pennsylvania near Philadelphia, fell ill of salmonella after eating “tainted chicken” used to make fajitas. Four of the 300 were ill enough to necessitate treatment at a local hospital’s emergency room for dehydration.
According to Lamine N’diaye, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) northeast regional office, the prison kitchen was closed down for cleaning after the outbreak, but has since reopened after a BOP inspector deemed it safe...……………….

[MiamiGent]

Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy concludes his death was a suicide by hanging

By Devlin Barrett
August 16 at 7:24 PM
The Washington Post

Multimillionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died as a result of a suicide by hanging, the New York City medical examiner concluded Friday — affirming law enforcement officials’ initial assertion that the high-profile prisoner had killed himself.

Epstein, 66, was found in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan on Saturday morning, and an official said he hanged himself with a bedsheet attached to the top of a bunk bed. Epstein was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson issued a terse statement Friday announcing her conclusion: “After careful review of all investigative information, including complete autopsy findings, the determination on the death of Jeffrey Epstein is below — Cause: Hanging. Manner: Suicide.” She has shared her findings with law enforcement officials, according to people familiar with the matter, but no further details have been disclosed. They, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigations.

Epstein’s lawyers said they did not accept the medical examiner’s findings.
“We are not satisfied with the conclusions,” his legal team said in a statement.
“The defense team fully intends to conduct its own independent and complete investigation into the circumstances and cause of Mr. Epstein’s death.” The lawyers, Martin G. Weinberg, Reid Weingarten and Michael Miller, said they were prepared to sue the government for access to any security video from the time of his death.

[Attorney general rips ‘failure’ of jail staff to keep Epstein alive]

Epstein had been held at the detention facility in Lower Manhattan since his arrest July 6 on sex trafficking charges. He was accused of abusing numerous teenage girls over several years in the early 2000s and had pleaded not guilty.

The medical examiner’s findings were released amid ongoing investigations by the FBI and the Justice Department’s inspector general into how suspected missteps by Bureau of Prisons personnel may have contributed to Epstein’s death.

Epstein’s death ended the criminal case against him, but the legal fights over his conduct and his wealth will likely live on for years. His alleged victims have vowed to continue their claims against his estate, and prosecutors insist any possible co-conspirators will not escape justice just because Epstein is now dead.

People familiar with the investigations have said that Epstein was left alone in a cell and that guards failed to check on him for several hours leading up to his death, after officials had given explicit instructions for him not to be left alone and for guards to check on him every 30 minutes.
Those precautions were in place partly because of an apparent suicide attempt July 23, though the specifics of that incident have been debated and officials say it is still under examination.

[Justice Dept. reassigns warden of jail where Epstein died, puts two staffers on leave]

After that incident, when staff at the detention center found light markings on Epstein’s neck, officials placed him on suicide watch for about a week before returning him to the special housing unit, where prisoners get more scrutiny and security.

Less than two weeks later, he was dead, leading to frenzied speculation, including from President Trump, about who might have wanted to harm Epstein, and whether he possessed compromising information about others. The jet-setting financier once boasted high-powered connections to political figures, including Trump and former president Bill Clinton.

Sampson, the medical examiner, issued a statement Sunday indicating that while Epstein’s autopsy was complete, she needed more information before reaching a conclusion about how he died. She also noted the autopsy was observed by Michael Baden, a private pathologist retained by Epstein’s lawyers.

On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that Epstein suffered multiple bone breaks in his neck, including the hyoid bone, which in men is near the Adam’s apple. Medical experts noted that such injuries are consistent with hanging suicides, though they can be found in strangling victims. Asked about the neck injuries, Sampson said Thursday that no single factor in an autopsy can be evaluated on its own, but has to be considered in relation to other evidence.

[Trump retweets conspiracy theory tying the Clintons to Epstein’s death]

Epstein’s death has led to a shake-up at the detention center, where the warden was reassigned and the two guards who were supposed to be checking on his cell were placed on leave. Union officials have said such a death was inevitable because of the short staffing and forced overtime that guards are working.

The Justice Department has since sent additional Bureau of Prisons lieutenants from around the country to buttress the MCC workforce, and a suicide reconstruction team is at the facility to better understand how Epstein died, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Critics of the Bureau of Prisons have said Epstein’s death, combined with other security failures such as the still-uncharged killing of Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger at a West Virginia prison last year, should spur reforms inside the federal prison system, which was hit with a hiring freeze in the beginning of the Trump administration. That freeze has since been lifted, but union officials say MCC and many other facilities are straining under the long-term effects of not having enough employees to operate effectively.

In a speech Monday, Attorney General William P. Barr decried what he called a “failure” of Bureau of Prisons personnel to keep Epstein secure.

Speaking to law enforcement officials in New Orleans, Barr said he “was appalled … and, frankly, angry” to learn of Epstein’s apparent suicide. “We are now learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and demand a thorough investigation,” he said.

Barr also vowed that Epstein’s death would not stop the ongoing investigation of others who may have conspired with Epstein.
“Let me assure you that this case will continue on against anyone who was complicit with Epstein,” Barr said. “Any co-conspirators should not rest easy. The victims deserve justice, and they will get it.”

On Wednesday, a woman who says Epstein raped her as a teenager filed a lawsuit against his estate. It’s possible that other alleged victims could follow her example, based on a law that just went into effect in New York State giving victims of long-ago sex abuse a one-year window to file such cases.

More than a decade ago, Epstein negotiated a plea deal with prosecutors in Florida after facing similar accusations. In the years since, lawmakers and victims’ advocates have criticized the terms of that deal, saying it shows the criminal justice system is lenient to wealthy criminals. The deal was approved by Alexander Acosta, who was then the U.S. attorney in Miami and would go on to become Trump’s labor secretary — a post he resigned after Epstein was charged last month and the controversy over the previous case intensified.

Carol D. Leonnig contributed to this report.

[MiamiGent]

Shrieking and shouting was heard coming from Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell the morning he was found dead, reports said.
Breitbart News

A CBS News report stated that guards were heard saying “breathe, Epstein, breathe,” as they tried to revive the 66-year-old financier.

On Saturday morning, Breitbart News reported that Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell after he allegedly committed suicide.

Sources said the sex offender hung himself with a bedsheet tied to the top of the cell’s bunk bed.

“The convicted pedophile, who was 6 feet tall, apparently killed himself by kneeling toward the floor and strangling himself with the makeshift noose, law enforcement sources said Monday. He hadn’t been checked on for several hours,” the New York Post reported.

Epstein had reportedly been removed from 24-hour suicide watch and downgraded to “special observation status,” requiring two guards to check on him every 30 minutes, according to reports. However, sources said the guards failed to follow the procedure.

On Monday, Breitbart News reported that Epstein had been removed from suicide watch, per his lawyer’s request.

However, Attorney General William Barr said Monday that he was “appalled” and “angry” at the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s (MCC) “failure to adequately secure” the now deceased Epstein.

“We are now learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and demand a thorough investigation,” Barr said, adding “The FBI and the Office of Inspector General are doing just that.”

Breitbart News reported that prior to his death, Epstein faced charges of sex trafficking which stemmed from a string of illegal activities over a period of three years in the early 2000s. In 2008, Epstein served a 13-month prison sentence in Florida and was also forced to register as a sex offender.

“His attorneys unsuccessfully lobbied for bail and house arrest on the new charges, but a federal New York judge declared him a flight risk and a danger to the community,” the report stated.

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Where Is Epstein’s ‘Lady of the House’? Ghislaine Maxwell Mystery Deepens

Tom Metcalf and John Hechinger

(Bloomberg) -- Her townhouse in Manhattan has been sold. Her home in London sits dark. And along the rocky north shore of Boston, past signs marked “No Trespassing,” the latest trail has gone cold.

Where is Ghislaine Maxwell?
The question gained new urgency on Wednesday as television news trucks descended on picturesque Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, in search of Maxwell, whose long entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein has made her a figure of international intrigue.

The media scrum was prompted by a report in Britain’s Daily Mail that said Maxwell -- whom employees at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion referred to as the “lady of the house” -- was hiding out in an oceanfront mansion here.

But there were no signs of Maxwell at the grand home perched above the Atlantic, if indeed she ever was here. Beyond the long, tree-lined drive, the white colonial, known as Tidewood, appeared to be empty. From the great room overlooking the water to the seven bedrooms, the place was dark. The Mail, citing anonymous sources, said Maxwell had rarely ventured out. The owner of the house, tech entrepreneur Scott Borgerson, yesterday denied that Maxwell is hiding out in his property, adding that he’d asked local police to check the residence.

After Epstein died in a Manhattan jail cell on Aug. 10, apparently of suicide, new scrutiny turned to Maxwell, the one-time British socialite accused in civil lawsuits of procuring high-school age women for the wealthy financier. She has never been charged with any crime, and has continued to deny wrongdoing.

The circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death –- two guards supposed to check on him had reportedly fallen asleep and falsified records to cover up the mistake while an autopsy found Epstein had sustained a broken neck bone often found in the victims of homicide by strangulation -- only intensified questions swirling around the case, and around Maxwell.

In London’s Belgravia neighborhood, cobwebs hang in the windowsills of the three-story mews home that records show Maxwell owns. She sold her townhouse on East 65th Street in Manhattan in 2016. Lawyers representing her in a civil suit told a U.S. court in 2017 that they didn’t believe that she had a permanent residence.

That low profile is likely to be further tested in the coming weeks now that prosecutors have signaled others may be charged with aiding Epstein in the crimes with which he was charged when he was arrested on July 6. “Our investigation of the conduct charged in the indictment -- which included a conspiracy count -- remains ongoing,” U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said in a statement.

Those closest to Epstein may have the most to fear. “People who should be nervous are the circle of potential individuals who enabled and facilitated this behavior,” said Duncan Levin, a former federal prosecutor and a lawyer at Tucker Levin in New York.

Maxwell, 57, was a central figure in Epstein’s world before he pleaded guilty in Florida in 2008 to two state counts of soliciting prostitution, one involving a minor. They were pictured together at events in Manhattan and Maxwell has been credited with introducing Epstein to New York society.

Over the past few weeks, Maxwell hasn’t responded to emails, phone calls and letters seeking comment. Jeffrey Pagliuca, a lawyer representing Maxwell in various civil suits, didn’t respond to a request for comment. London-based Malcolm Grumbridge, a longtime lawyer for the Maxwell family, has declined to comment.

This reticence is a marked shift for the Briton born in the public eye. The youngest daughter of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell, she grew up in English high society. Her father doted on her, naming his superyacht after her.

He died in 1991 while cruising on that boat, the Lady Ghislaine. After his body was found in the waters off the Canary Islands, it emerged he had taken 350 million pounds ($600 million) from the pension funds of Mirror Group Newspapers.

The collapse of the Maxwell business empire saw Ghislaine Maxwell’s gilded world fracture. The 80,000 pound annual stipend from her trust fund that has been reported in the British press wouldn’t have kept the then 29-year-old in the style to which she had become accustomed.

After arriving in New York, she fell in with Epstein in the 1990s. Initially romantically involved, they remained close even after they split, with Epstein describing Maxwell as his “best friend” in a 2003 Vanity Fair article.

Manifests for Epstein’s private jet show Maxwell flew frequently on his planes. She helped manage his life. Artist Nelson Shanks said in a 2002 lawsuit that Maxwell contacted him on behalf of Epstein to commission a portrait of the family of Leslie Wexner, the retail billionaire for whom Epstein was a long-time financial adviser. When journalist David Bank visited Epstein on his private Caribbean island in January 2003, Maxwell met him at St. Croix airport, gave him a tour of Epstein’s private jet and then piloted the helicopter that took him to Little St. James.

For years, Maxwell remained a fixture at events, including Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in 2010 and Vanity Fair’s Oscar party, where she was photographed next to Elon Musk. In 2014, she gave speeches about the oceanic conservation work of her TerraMar Project at the United Nations and a TedX conference in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Such appearances started to wane after her name continued to appear in the depositions and complaints of the civil suits. Virginia Giuffre, who claims to have been a sex slave of Epstein, sued her for defamation in 2015, and the unsealing of files relating to that case on Aug. 9 made public details of Giuffre’s allegations against Maxwell as well as prominent business and political figures.

What’s known of Maxwell’s business dealings show she had contact with some of the U.K.’s grandest families. Between 2005 and 2012 she was a director of a now liquidated U.K. makeup company whose founder, Jemma Kidd, is the daughter-in-law of the Duke of Wellington. The Rothschild family were shareholders in the company.

Her once powerhouse network seems to have become increasingly tenuous in recent years. The now defunct TerraMar website included praise from billionaire Richard Branson. That contact came about after Maxwell pitched her non-profit to the Ocean Elders, a group of businessmen and scientists that aims to promote ocean conservation.

The backing was less impressive than it seemed. The luminaries agreed to promote the project with “some blogs and quotes in its early days,” Branson spokesman Nick Fox said. “There was nothing more undertaken or agreed to.”

To contact the reporters on this story: Tom Metcalf in London at [e-mail];John Hechinger in Boston at [e-mail]
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Pierre Paulden at [e-mail], Anne Reifenberg, Steven Crabill
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[MiamiGent]

It's hardly about Epstein, BNB. It's about our Justice system. Huge investigation to follow.

[BullNBear52]

You people need to get a life.

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[MiamiGent]

Some of the comments to attached piece


FesteringWound • 5 hours ago
Isn't it clever how the same leftists who STILL maintain Trump colluded with Russia... some saying since as early as 1989.... are the same ones insisting this couldn't have been anything other than suicide. And anyone who says otherwise is a lunatic conspiracy theorist.
Really?

Green-Eyed Lady FesteringWound • 5 hours ago • edited
Exactly... Here’s a list of “inconsistencies” from the Benghazi attack... Here’s a list of “inconsistencies” from the IRS scandal investigation... Heres a list of “inconsistencies” from the Hillary Clinton email investigation... Here’s a list of “inconsistencies” from the Trump coup attempt investigation... here’s a list of “inconsistencies” from how the FBI/DOJ treated General Mike Flynn... Same excrement, different day.

Jimmy Jones Green-Eyed Lady • 4 hours ago
If Deep State Marco says it then we know its BS.

Burlington Green-Eyed Lady • 4 hours ago
The hyoid bone is a small bone like a wishbone, easily felt, just above the Adam's apple. This is often broken when an elderly person is strangled. The WaPo refers to this as a "broken neck". This is not a BROKEN NECK! The cover up has begun.

BirdilyWarmth Burlington • 44 minutes ago
Right, I saw the same articles. Also before fingerprints the most common ways of identifying people were ear, nose and eye shape and distance from each other. This was fairly reliable, but fingerprints proved more so and it was abandoned. In this case though you can clearly see that his nose shape is very different, as is the more reliable ear shape (which rarely changes over time, whereas a nose can be broken). That isn't Jeffrey Epstein's body. This shows the disregard the left have for our system that they either offed him (unlikely) or freed him (to go where I have no idea). The left attack all that is good in America: the police, school choice, and 24/7 since he announced his run...President Trump. They even openly call for an invasion of the USA and for giving the invaders free stuff, and they spied on actual Americans in an effort to bring down POTUS. Dan Bongino guest hosted for Hannity the other day, and he has a really stacked video out today about all of that. It is up at Whatfinger News (which replaced Drudge for me when I noticed he links to mostly leftwing sites; make sure to check it out), near the top, on the right and in red. And if you've never seen the 1944 movie 'Gaslight' then watch that, because the Democrats are trying to do that to us! Notice that we still don't even know exactly what happened in Las Vegas (several people claimed to see shots from different locations, and there is video which appears to prove that). But more and more stories come out and we forget because we become overloaded with tragedy. Epstein will eventually become like D.B. Cooper, another unsolved case.

Dontazemebro Burlington • 4 hours ago
The WaPo reporting it as a broken neck doesn't necessarily mean they are in on the cover-up. It could just be a case of ignorance and stupidity on the part of the reporter. Journalists aren't as smart or informed as they would have us believe. I think many of them are intellectually lazy.

bobdog19006 Dontazemebro • 2 hours ago
Maybe so. I read an article last night about the shootout in Philadelphia by the local CBS News affiliate that claimed the shooter was using a "long rifle gun", whatever the heck THAT is. And we're supposed to look up to "journalists" for their accuracy and objectivity?
There has to be direct pressure on the hyoid bone before it fractures, typically with the thumbs or a knot in the device used to strangle somebody, such as a garotte. Evenly distributed pressure from a wide noose like a bed sheet, applied with the subject leaning forward on his knees? I haven't stayed at a Holiday Inn Express recently, but I still doubt this happened the way it has been reported.
Tom Clancy has to have been involved in this story.

buckeyeman bobdog19006 • 2 hours ago
A "long rifle" would usually refer to the muzzle loading flintlock or percussion cap rifles used in early America. Sometimes called "Kentucky rifles" they were more commonly made in the east, with some of the best known "schools" in Maryland and Pennsylvania, but there were gun makers almost everywhere. Do not have any hope that you will ever find a "journalist" that knows anything about this or anything else of importance.

bobdog19006 buckeyeman • 2 hours ago
I wonder how many high capacity clips it can hold? Probably some sort of automatic Glock revolver, I guess.

buckeyeman bobdog19006 • 2 hours ago
I read about that in a magazine...
Besides, why isn't there a law against illegal gun ownership?

Joe Sormiker buckeyeman • 40 minutes ago
Nice!

josh michael bobdog19006 • 2 hours ago
It's actually a magazine, clips are used to load magazines. They fit over the magazine, and rounds (commonly called bullets), are quickly fed into the magazine. Only idiots call magazines clips!

Carlos Morales josh michael • an hour ago
Yeah, Josh; he was very obviously being sarcastic. He also mentions an automatic Glock revolver. His entire post was to point out the ignorance of those against the 2nd Amendment.

Wolf Angel buckeyeman • 29 minutes ago
Conflating ‘long gun’ and ‘rifle’ most likely ... but I do have a long barreled rifle. 27 inches. Pretty unusual. It allows more acceleration of slow moving heavy bullets.
‘Long gun’ refers to all rifles.

DaveK buckeyeman • 40 minutes ago • edited
Several states refer to anything with a rifle-length barrel as a "long-gun". For them it's either a handgun or a long-gun.

GMBurns Dontazemebro • an hour ago
You are so incredibly right about reporters not being especially smart that I had to do more than merely 'upvote'. And I would add that these days most are more motivated by pushing a leftist ideology than by the desire to get to the truth, while even those inclined to be honest are often intimidated into being so cautious that they can't speak plainly.

AmericanBelle1 Dontazemebro • 2 hours ago
WaPo reported it as broken bones in the neck...not a broken neck.

Dumbo's Mom Burlington • 4 hours ago
It has been reported that SEVERAL bones in his neck were broken or fractured.

Molon labe Burlington • 4 hours ago
It began before Epstein was murdered!!

TheDoctorWhoCuresCancer Burlington • an hour ago
We commonly think of a broken neck as a break in the cervical bones, so what you're saying makes sense it seems to be misleading. The hyoid bone is in the neck, so they get to claim they are technically correct.
When it is reported there are broken bones are they saying the hyoid was broken in multiple places, or was there another broken bone?

AmericanBelle1 Burlington • 2 hours ago
Duh! There's no reports of a broken neck...the reports are that several bones IN THE NECK, including the hyroid, were broken.

david7134 Green-Eyed Lady • 28 minutes ago
I am with you. It is evident that there is more than one class of citizen in our country. We have developed an elite group that is immune to the law and can do what they desire. I am sick of this and don't feel that the election process is capable of restoring our government.

inabunker FesteringWound • 5 hours ago
The left does not like the fact that Epstein was implicating top dems!

MAGA now inabunker • 4 hours ago
If they had known President Trump would not be implicated in child abuse, then this never would have started. The black president and his predecessors sat on this to protect Clinton and other Establishment pukes. May they all rot in hell.

Sam American inabunker • 2 hours ago
how are podesta, and the other pizzagate, people involved?

Sum Ting Wong FesteringWound • 5 hours ago • edited
This is the moment of truth for AG Barr.
He will either expose this for what it is, murder ~ or he'll prove that he's the swamp creature that I suspect he is.
I hope I'm wrong about him, but I doubt it.

Green-Eyed Lady Sum Ting Wong • 5 hours ago
Let me tell you something... Bill Barr is either the most naive person to fill the role of AG... or he turned a blind eye. That dirtbag’s life would have been more secure with Andy Taylor and Barney Fife guarding him in the Mayberry jail.

mikifenn Green-Eyed Lady • 3 hours ago
I have heard for a year that any day now certain people who conspired against Trump would be in deep trouble. It's been nothing but talk. This may be nothing but talk as well.

Loligag1953 Green-Eyed Lady • 4 hours ago
And little Opie would have been safe too, because Jeffrey didn't swing that way.

Eileen McRae Green-Eyed Lady • 2 hours ago
Ask yourself basic questions. Who reopened this case? Who insisted that it be done in New York State? Who decided which court would do the indictment? Who named the prosecuting attorney team? Who is on that team? Who chose the judge that will hear the case? Who decided which jail/prison he should be incarcerated in? Who made the decision about bail?
Putting the pieces of the jigsaw together might allow you to see the "whole" picture!

Ellie 187 Eileen McRae • an hour ago
SDNY was the ones who executed the arrest and indictment... they have been after Trump since he came down the escalator.... so my theory is they arrest Epstein hoping to get dirt on Trump to bring him down... when it came out that Epstein didn't have anything on Trump (even Epstein accusers specifically said Trump was never seen at these Lolita orgies, SDNY asked the victims specifically about Trump) .... so it when it became evident that this won't get Trump but ensnare a bunch of democrats, he was 'suicided'

GMBurns Eileen McRae • an hour ago
The answer to all those questions is 'the Southern District of New York', a long-time Clintonista fortress. It theoretically belongs to the Justice Department, but there is something called 'prosecutorial independence' that is taken in the courts to mean that political appointees (like Barr) are not supposed to steer what the district attorneys do.
In other words, if Barr reaches in to micromanage, it would be called 'interference with prosecution' and 'obstruction'. You know where that would lead.
There has been something I have noticed for many decades. Conservatives are never prepared for how far the leftists will go. I presume Barr never supposed that Epstein would end up suspiciously dead. I didn't myself.

Sam American Green-Eyed Lady • 2 hours ago
you think AG's get into prison staffing details?

Sum Ting Wong Green-Eyed Lady • 5 hours ago • edited
Thats one vote for "swamp creature".

Jovet Sum Ting Wong • 4 hours ago
I think you're fake... there's no way you survived that plane crash.

GMBurns Green-Eyed Lady • an hour ago
There is no way a handful of people with good intentions recently placed in top jobs can really control a huge bureaucracy filled for decades with leftist activists.
Reagan during his presidency - several years into it - found that only the tiniest percentage of changes in the bureaucracy he had ordered had actually been implemented. I refer to things that would not have required laws to change. And the leftist were not nearly as entrenched then as now, and the Obama administration was absolutely frantic about getting leftist in; part of their push for more women, gays, etc. in higher positions was to be able to displace those not already sufficiently dedicated to the leftist cause (this went on even in the Secret service and military).
In the end, 'draining the swamp' will have to mean cutting the bureaucracy down to a fraction of its current size, and I think it will also be necessary to prohibit it from making 'regulations' not specified by an actual law.
As it is, for an Attorney General to tell the Southern District of New York (who had the Epstein case) what to do with Epstein would have been labeled 'interference with prosecution', i.e., 'obstruction'. You know where that would lead.

BMF Sum Ting Wong • 5 hours ago
Well, there may not be enough physical evidence of murder although there seems to a mountain of broken rules and policies.
Nevertheless, I remain skeptical that a 6 foot 200 pound man managed to hang himself with a bed sheet from a bunk bed with enough force to break his neck and thyroid bone.

Molon labe BMF • 4 hours ago
Oh there’s physical evidence of murder alright! That was the reason for the delay in releasing autopsy results.

Sum Ting Wong BMF • 5 hours ago
Physical evidence is never an issue for the courts.

olga nilsen BMF • 3 hours ago
Oswald did it with a magic bed sheet.

stevenskane BMF • an hour ago
There is a very short list of people who had access to Epstein during the critical period. Those people on that list should be taking precautions themselves. There will be a "cleanup" project. Remember what happened to Lee Harvey Oswald?

Eileen McRae Sum Ting Wong • 2 hours ago
I would like to believe that whatever it is, suicide or murder, that AG Barr will report the truth based on facts!

Bruce Sum Ting Wong • 3 hours ago • edited
MY MONEY ON SWAMP

sosorryononame Sum Ting Wong • 3 hours ago
He;s not prosecuting Comey is he?

Ellie 187 sosorryononame • an hour ago • edited
Supposedly because they want to hit Comey for his FISA abuses ... leaking classified data one isn't going to put him away for more than a few months.... misleading the FISA courts could be years in prison.
We will see if AG Barr will protect the deep state or expose the deep state ... I hope its the latter but I'm afraid its the former

GMBurns sosorryononame • an hour ago
In line with what Ellie 187 says, think of it this way. A charge of leaking alone will be considered trivial in an FBI chief (they are considered to have some discretion). Even if convicted, it will be a slap on the wrist.
However, at a later date, if presented as part of implementing 'a conspiracy', especially 'a seditious conspiracy', the sentences are upped for each charge. Don't use small things up to harass prematurely when as part of a barrage they are much more powerful.

chryslerfan Sum Ting Wong • 5 hours ago
I think Barr has integrity.

peterpan3 chryslerfan • 5 hours ago
Barr should confiscate everything the FBI collected and protect it

Molon labe chryslerfan • 4 hours ago • edited
Then you evidently take that on faith—cause he’s done ZERO to SHOW IT!!

ARB chryslerfan • 4 hours ago
I think he's got about a week to take dramatic and effective action before your average conservative abandons the benefit of the doubt given to Barr.

[MiamiGent]

List of Inconsistencies in Prison Policy Surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s Death

by Jim Hoft August 15, Gateway Pundit

Jeffrey Epstein was 66 at the time of his death.
Epstein was the highest profile prisoner in the US prison system.
On Tuesday the autopsy revealed Epstein suffered broken bones in his neck common in homicide by strangulation.
Since his death we have learned a number of things that make you question this man’s death.

Here is a Complete List of Inconsistencies in Prison Policy Surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s Death:
** Epstein said he was considering cooperating in “naming names” in his international sex ring
** He was found unconscious in his prison cell just three weeks earlier
** Two days prior to his death documents released for the first time implicated several top Democrats in his pedo sex ring
** He was taken off suicide watch after a failed attempt just two weeks earlier
** He was in isolation (unusual for a suicidal individual)
** The cameras malfunctioned — There is no video
** Even Mexico had video of El Chapo’s escape from prison
** Then later we hear the cameras showed the guards did not do rounds? Which is it?
** The prison guards had worked several extra shifts last week
** One prison guard on his floor was not even a certified guard
** The prison guards “forgot” to check on Epstein
** The prison guards slept through their shift
** The guards did not check Epstein for several hours
** There were reports of screaming the morning Epstein died
** The MCC had not seen a successful suicide in 40 years
** Epstein said he was the victim of attempted murder three weeks ago
** Epstein’s former roommate is facing mass murder charges
** Epstein had dirt on numerous globalist elites
** Epstein was not given paper sheets
** Epstein had sheets in his cell to hang himself
** Epstein was not suicidal according to medical professionals
** Epstein told his lawyers on Friday, a day before his death, “See you Sunday.”
** Epstein’s former roommate heard nothing
** Epstein reportedly had to get on his knees to hang himself from his bed
** Epstein autopsy showed broken bones in neck common in strangulation deaths
This prison obviously suffered a breakdown in official policy.
And now the liberal media and Marco Rubio believe you are a conspiracy theorist for questioning Epstein’s death.

[MiamiGent]

Epstein told lawyers that cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione ‘roughed him up’
By Bruce Golding and Emily Saul

August 14, 2019 | 9:54pm | Updated

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.

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

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.

Epstein told his lawyers that “the cop roughed him up, and that’s why they got him off suicide watch,” the source said.

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.”

“I do know that Nick was not brought up on any charges at all in the institution, so they cleared him,” Barket said.

“It’s simply, patently false to say that [Epstein] did anything other than try to kill himself at least twice, and succeeded when he succeeded.”

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.”

The revelation came as Manhattan federal 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.

In a response dated the same day, Warden Lamine N’Diaye said that “an internal investigation was completed” but noted that “current investigations by the FBI and [Justice Department Office of Inspector General] will include this incident as well.”

“Accordingly, I cannot divulge any information about the prior investigation at this time,” N’Diaye said.

On Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr ordered the removal of N’Diaye from his post at the MCC after ripping the “serious irregularities at this facility” during a speech the previous day in New Orleans.

[MiamiGent]

Timeline

1969:
He graduated in 1969 from Lafayette High School at age 16 having skipped two grades.

1996:
In 1996, Epstein changed the name of his firm to the Financial Trust Company and, for tax advantages, based it on the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

2000:
In 2000, Epstein established the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, which funds science research and education.

2006:
In May 2006, Palm Beach police filed a probable cause affidavit saying that Epstein should be charged with four counts of unlawful sex with minors and one molestation count.

2008:
On June 30, 2008, after Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge (one of two) of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

2015:
In 2015, evidence came to light that one of the powerful men at Epstein's mansion may have been Prince Andrew, Duke of York.

[MiamiGent]

Jeffrey Epstein
Financier

Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and convicted sex offender. Epstein began his career in finance at the investment bank Bear Stearns before forming his own firm, J. Epstein & Co. Epstein was a multimillionaire who was well connected with certain financial, political, and cultural elites.

Born: Jan 20, 1953 · Brooklyn, NY
Died: Aug 10, 2019 · New York, NY

Education: New York University · International High School At Lafayette · Cooper Union
Siblings: Mark Epstein (Brother)

Wikipedia

[MiamiGent]

Wow, if this is included in the official autopsy- a broken hyoid bone, then it overwhelmingly points to murder.
Good dig, ks.

[MiamiGent]

Good grief! It's sick at the supposed top!

[MiamiGent]

Who can forget that parsing, al.
I suspect he lost even ardent followers on that

[MiamiGent]

The two should interrogated thoroughly, then fired and loose their pensions.
If they don't cooperate, charge 'em

MG

[MiamiGent]

Prolly right, al. Unless they were officially dressed to aid the bamboozling of guards?

[ksquared]

Autopsy finds Jeffrey Epstein had several broken neck bones
By Kenneth Garger August 15, 2019 | 12:53am | Updated

Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy determined the convicted pedophile suffered multiple broken neck bones, according to a report.

One of Epstein’s breaks was to the hyoid bone, an injury that experts told the Washington Post is more common in homicide victims.

The discoveries were disclosed to the paper by two people familiar with the findings of the autopsy, which was completed on Sunday, but warranted more information by the Medical Examiner’s Office before they make a final cause of death ruling.

“Today, a medical examiner performed the autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein,” said Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Barbara Sampson in a statement Sunday night.

“The ME’s determination is pending further information at this time. At the request of those representing the decedent, and with the awareness of the federal prosecutor, I allowed a private pathologist (Dr. Michael Baden) to observe the autopsy examination. This is routine practice.”

Sampson’s office didn’t answer a request for comment from the Washington Post about the injuries.

Epstein was found dead of an apparent suicide in his cell at the Manhattan Correctional Center early Saturday. He was being held there without bail since his July arrest on sex trafficking charges.

The Washington Post spoke to Jonathan Arden, president of the National Association of Medical Examiners, who said a broken hyoid bone — which is near the Adam’s apple — is more common in strangulation murders than suicidal hangings.

“If, hypothetically, the hyoid bone is broken, that would generally raise questions about strangulation, but it is not definitive and does not exclude suicidal hanging,” said Arden, who is not involved with the Epstein autopsy.

Numerous studies were also cited by the paper that found hyoid bone breaks were found in the minority of suicidal hangings. One such study conducted from 2010 to 2013 that looked at suicidal hangings in India found that hyoid damage was present in just 16 of 264 cases.

https://nypost.com/2019/08/15/epstein-autopsy-determined-he-had-several-broken-neck-bones-report/

[ksquared]

Jeffrey Epstein’s last words to lawyer before his jailhouse death
By Bruce Golding August 14, 2019 | 5:48pm | Updated

Jeffrey Epstein was confident he could fight the child sex trafficking charges against him and was in “great spirits” just hours before his jailhouse death on Saturday morning — even telling one of his lawyers, “I’ll see you Sunday,” The Post has learned.

The convicted pedophile also told his lawyers that the neck injuries he suffered in an earlier incident at the Metropolitan Correctional Center were inflicted by his hulking, ex-cop cellmate, which led the lawyers to request that he be taken off a suicide watch, according to a source familiar with Epstein’s case.

Epstein’s optimism behind bars — expressed during daily visits with his lawyers that lasted up to 12 hours each — was so great that it struck some of those around him as “delusional,” the source said.

“He thought he was going to win the double-jeopardy motion” that his defense lawyers were planning to file in connection with his 2008 Florida prostitution conviction, the source said.

The multimillionaire — who was jailed in Lower Manhattan on orders from a judge who cited his “uncontrollable” sexual urges — also “had hope of getting bail on appeal,” the source said, through an application that was pending before the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals at the time of his death.

“What he really wanted to do was get bail so he could cooperate,” the source said.

But whatever evidence Epstein may have had against his rich and powerful former friends died with him, because he kept no diary or notes that documented any alleged wrongdoing, the source said.

“He was delusional,” the source said.

“He thought he was going to get the same deal he got in Florida.”

Epstein, 66, pleaded guilty to two state charges of solicitation of prostitution — one involving a minor — as part of a sweetheart deal in which then-Miami US Attorney Alex Acosta approved a non-prosecution agreement over allegations the financier sexually abused dozens of underage girls at his waterfront mansion in Palm Beach.

Acosta was forced to resign as US labor secretary last month over controversy sparked by Epstein’s July 6 arrest on a child sex trafficking indictment obtained by Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who has said he’s not bound by the non-prosecution agreement in Florida.

The Manhattan federal court indictment accused Epstein of abusing dozens of underage girls between 2002 and 2005 at locations including his Upper East Side townhouse and Palm Beach mansion.

Epstein’s properties also included a private island, Little St. James, in the US Virgin Islands, and the “Zorro Ranch” in Stanley, New Mexico, that includes a sprawling mansion, landing strip and airplane hangar.


Zorro Ranch Reuters

While locked up at the MCC, Epstein’s mood rarely wavered during the seven-days-a-week meetings with his lawyers, which routinely began at 8 a.m., the source said.

“Every day he was very positive and the night before he was real positive,” the source said. “He was in great spirits the night before.”

Epstein even told a lawyer who met with him on Friday — one day before the US Bureau of Prisons has said he was found “unresponsive” in his cell — that he was looking forward to their next visit.

“He was like, ‘I’ll see you Sunday,’ ” the source said.

It’s unclear whether Epstein’s sustained sunny disposition was sincere, or part of an elaborate act designed to enable him to kill himself.

Around 6:30 a.m. Saturday, he was found kneeling his 6-foot frame with a bedsheet wrapped around his neck and secured to the top of a bunk bed in his cell, law enforcement officials have said.

Paramedics tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead a short time later at NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital.

Epstein’s death followed a July 23 incident in which he was found nearly unconscious on the floor of his cell with marks on his neck and was placed on a suicide watch, law enforcement officials have said.

He was removed from the suicide watch on July 29 at the request of his defense lawyers, according to published reports.

At the time of the July 23 incident, Epstein was sharing his cell with a hulking, former Westchester County cop, Nicholas Tartaglione, who faces a death-penalty trial in four drug-related slayings upstate.

Epstein told his lawyers that “the cop roughed him up, and that’s why they got him off suicide watch,” the source familiar with Epstein’s case said.

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.”

“I do know that Nick was not brought up on any charges at all in the institution, so they cleared him,” Barket said.

“It’s simply, patently false to say that [Epstein] did anything other than try to kill himself at least twice, and succeeded when he succeeded.”

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.”

The US Bureau of Prisons, which runs the MCC, declined to comment, citing investigations into Epstein’s death by the FBI and the Justice Department Office of the Inspector General.

Epstein’s legal team didn’t return a request for comment.

https://nypost.com/2019/08/14/jeffrey-epsteins-last-words-to-lawyer-before-his-jailhouse-death/

[ksquared]

Epstein had bizarre painting of Bill Clinton in dress, heels in townhouse
By Larry Celona and Chris Perez August 14, 2019 | 6:28pm | Updated
(Curiouser and curiouser.)


"Parsing Bill," by Petrina Ryan-Kleid Petrina Ryan-Kleid

It’s certainly a conversation starter.

Jeffrey Epstein had an oil painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress — lounging on a chair in the Oval Office — hanging up in his Manhattan townhouse, according to law enforcement sources.

“It was hanging up there prominently — as soon as you walked in — in a room to the right,” a source told The Post. “Everybody who saw it laughed and smirked.”

But the bizarre home decor didn’t stop there.

Epstein, 66, also kept a mannequin hanging from the ceiling — dressed up in a wedding gown, the source said, noting how the doll was situated above a staircase.

A woman who visited Epstein’s $56 million home confirmed the existence of the Clinton painting to the Daily Mail, but didn’t mention the mannequin. She was able to snap a picture of the painting, which was posted online Wednesday.

In it, the former president can be seen lounging on a chair in the Oval Office — pointing toward the viewer — while wearing red heels and a blue dress similar to the one Monica Lewinsky famously donned during their White House hookup.

A piece dubbed “Parsing Bill” was painted and sold by a New York-based artist named Petrina Ryan-Kleid. Saatchi Art, an online art gallery, describes it as an “oil on canvas” with dimensions of 40 W x 40 H x 2 in. The painting inside Epstein’s home appears to be the same size, and sources told The Post it was also done with oil.

Attempts to reach Ryan-Kleid were unsuccessful on Wednesday night. A relative, when reached by telephone, said he knew of the painting’s existence but was unaware of a connection to Epstein.

The Clinton camp did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

https://nypost.com/2019/08/14/epstein-had-bizarre-painting-of-bill-clinton-in-dress-heels-in-townhouse/

[al44]

What to believe-

[al44]

Bill Clinton: Epstein's Cause Of Death Depends On What Your Definition Of 'Suicide' Is

August 13th, 2019



PHILADELPHIA, PA—Speaking to a packed 30-seat arena, Bill Clinton remarked on Jeffrey Epstein's recent passing, saying that Epstein's cause of death "really depends on what your definition of 'suicide' is."

"Did Epstein commit suicide?" asked an attendee at the event.

A wide-eyed Clinton shrugged his shoulders. "I mean, it really depends on what your definition of suicide is, heh."

An awkward silence ensued. Bill turned to look at Hillary for support, but she just glared at him and ran her finger across her throat, a metaphor that means "death."

He went on, "Heh, I mean, well, we've got to define terms here, alright? If you mean, 'Did he hang himself without any outside assistance?' then I'd say that does not fall under the definition of what may or may not have occurred."

Hillary held up a pair of finger guns to her husband's head in a threatening fashion, another metaphor that means "death."

Bill gulped. "But, well, heh, if you mean did he hang himself and then shoot himself three times in the back of the head just to be sure? Then yeah, I'd say he committed suicide."

"Hillary and I did not have murderous relations with that man!" he insisted as Hillary beckoned him backstage.

https://babylonbee.com/news/bill-clinton-epsteins-cause-of-death-depends-on-what-your-definition-of-suicide-is

[SkeBallLarry]

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Jennifer Araoz sues Ghislaine Maxwell >

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/jeffrey-epstein-accuser-jennifer-araoz-sues-ghislaine-maxwell-3-other-n1041901?cid=eml_nbn_20190814

[ksquared]

Jail guards assigned to watch Epstein were sleeping before his death
By Tamar Lapin and Larry Celona August 14, 2019 | 12:52am |
(Howdy, MG. Good luck with your new board. <g>)

The two Manhattan jail guards tasked with monitoring Jeffrey Epstein before he died fell asleep on the job and fudged the log entries to show they checked on him and other inmates when they actually didn’t, according to reports.

Surveillance video reviewed after Epstein’s death showed the guards at the Metropolitan Correctional Center never made some of the inspections noted in the log, sources told The Post late Tuesday.

A prison and law enforcement official told The New York Times late Tuesday that the guards were asleep when they failed to check on Epstein for about three hours before his death.

The convicted pedophile hadn’t been checked on for several hours before he apparently hanged himself with a bedsheet early Saturday in his cell at the Lower Manhattan jail, sources told The Post on Monday.

The guards were required to check on 66-year-old Epstein every 30 minutes, but that procedure was not followed, sources said. The falsifying of their logs could amount to a federal crime.

One of the two Federal Bureau of Prisons workers assigned to guard the perv in the 9 South unit didn’t normally work as a correction officer, but was filling in on overtime. It’s unclear what the worker’s normal role was.

Earlier Tuesday, the Justice Department said the two MCC staffers assigned to watch Epstein were placed on administrative leave.

With Post Wires

https://nypost.com/2019/08/14/jail-guards-assigned-to-watch-epstein-were-sleeping-before-his-death/

[Gmenfan]

BFD!

[Gmenfan]

Or Theo Kojak

[SkeBallLarry]

DOJ reassigns warden >

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/457281-doj-reassigns-warden-after-epstein-apparent-suicide

[SkeBallLarry]

" You betcha, MG ~ we'll snif it all out, just like Colombo " .. !!

[MiamiGent]

OK Ske, we'll get to the bottom of this stinking mess before we're done. Possibly send our findings to Attorney-General William Barr. :)

[SkeBallLarry]

" Attending " .. !!

[MiamiGent]

'He was the center of it': With Jeff Epstein dead, charging co-conspirators likely an uphill battle, experts say

Kristine Phillips



FBI raids Epstein's private island in ongoing probe

Federal Prosecutors In Jeffrey Epstein Case Turning Attention To Co-Conspirators

The apparent suicide of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein brought a devastating blow to several women : It meant they will never be able to see a public trial of the man they said sexually abused and exploited them when they were minors.

It has also left loose ends about who prosecutors can — or will — go after now that the alleged mastermind, in a case that has raised serious questions about the prosecution of the wealthy, is dead. An attorney for some of Epstein's accusers says the obvious target for prosecution is his ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite described in a civil case as a co-conspirator accused of recruiting girls to perform sex acts on Epstein.

"There is substantial evidence linking Ms. Maxwell to the recruiting, scheduling and the abuse of Jeffrey Epstein's underage victims," Jack Scarola, a Florida attorney representing five of Epstein's accusers, said.

Maxwell has not been charged with a crime and she has previously denied wrongdoing. The U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, which charged Epstein with sex trafficking and conspiracy in July, did not respond to a request for comment Monday.

Legal experts say prosecutors will face an uphill battle if they try to charge Maxwell or other alleged aiders and abettors, especially because the principal defendant is gone.
"You can expect that the government is going to aggressively pursue evidence of their guilt. One of the big differences is, though, there is no big fish for those people to flip against," said Renato Mariotti, a former Illinois federal prosecutor who worked on child exploitation cases. "The challenge that the government is going to have is they're going to have to prove that she knew when she was recruiting women that they were underage, that she knew they'll perform sex acts."
"Her defense attorney is going to argue that if she had any idea that these women were going to be abused, that she would've never recruited them," Mariotti added.

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Getty Images Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA on 9/8/04. Epstein is connected with several prominent people including politicians, actors and academics. Epstein was convicted of having sex with an underaged woman.

With Epstein dead, alleged co-conspirators, if they're charged, could claim that prosecutors are simply looking for a scapegoat, said Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor and law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
"He was the center of it, and the peripheral players, if [prosecutors] have particularly strong cases against them, one would've expected some of them would've been charged already," Levenson said.

Maxwell was named a defendant in a defamation lawsuit filed by one of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Giuffre, who said Epstein sexually abused her from 1999 to 2002 at his mansions in Manhattan, New York, and West Palm Beach, Florida. Giuffre said Maxwell recruited her when she was a minor. Attorneys who represented Maxwell in the lawsuit did not respond to a request for comment.

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In this courtroom artist's sketch, Jeffrey Epstein (center) sits with attorneys Martin Weinberg, left, and Marc Fernich during his arraignment in New York federal court, July 8, 2019, on federal sex trafficking charges. (Photo: Elizabeth Williams/ AP)

Giuffre and another accuser alleged that the exploitation did not stop with Epstein, who rubbed elbows with the rich and famous, including Donald Trump and Bill Clinton. The accusers said their long list of abusers included "numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known Prime Minister, and other world leaders," as well as Alan Dershowitz, a longtime Harvard Law School professor who had worked on Epstein's legal defense, and Maxwell, according to court records. Trump and Clinton were not accused.
Maxwell and Dershowitz have denied the allegations. Maxwell issued several public statements painting Giuffre as a liar. In 2015, Giuffre sued Maxwell for defamation, and the case was settled privately two years later.

Maria Farmer, another accuser, said in an affidavit that Epstein and Maxwell sexually assaulted her in the summer of 1996 at billionaire Leslie Wexner's Ohio mansion, where she was working on an art project. Farmer, who said she also worked for Epstein manning the front door of his New York mansion, alleged seeing "school-age girls" coming to the home. She said Maxwell told her the girls were interviewing for modeling positions.

Many of the court records in the defamation case against Maxwell remained under seal, until last week, after a federal appeals court judge ruled to make a trove of filings public. Among the nearly 2,000 pages of documents released is a deposition in which Giuffre said Maxwell approached her after noticing she was reading a book on massage therapy, the Associated Press reported . At that time, Giuffre's father was working as a maintenance manager at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's resort in Palm Beach, Florida, and Giuffre, then 16, got a summer job as a locker room attendant at the club's spa.

Giuffre said in the deposition that Maxwell offered to train her in massage therapy. The years of abuse began after Maxwell took Giuffre to Epstein's mansion near Mar-a-Lago, where Maxwell told the teen to perform oral sex on Epstein, according to the deposition cited by the Associated Press.

Maxwell is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, a publishing tycoon and former member of the British Parliament who died in 1991 after falling overboard his luxury yacht, Lady Ghislaine, named after the youngest of his nine children.

At some point, Maxwell moved to New York and began dating Epstein. In 2000, they were photographed next to Trump and his then-girlfriend, Melania Knauss, at a social event in Mar-a-Lago.

Epstein was found dead in his federal prison cell on Saturday morning, the day after the court records in the defamation case were made public. The Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York said the death was an "apparent suicide."

Epstein's death has cast a jarring spotlight on the nation's largest prison system plagued by potentially dangerous staffing shortages, violence and widespread sexual harassment of female officers. Three weeks ago, Epstein was found injured and unconscious in his cell, though it wasn't clear if he tried to kill himself or if he was assaulted.

More: Despite warning signs, why wasn't Jeffrey Epstein on suicide watch when he died?

Hours after Epstein's death, Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, made clear that the investigation — including on the conspiracy charge against Epstein — is still ongoing.

Attorney General William Barr, who has ordered an investigation of Epstein's death, vowed to also investigate the accusations against co-conspirators.
"Let me assure you that this case will continue on against anyone who was complicit with Epstein. Any co-conspirators should not rest easy. The victims deserve justice, and we will ensure they get it," Barr said during a speech Monday before a Fraternal Order of Police meeting in New Orleans.

The Epstein saga recently found itself in the public spotlight after the Miami Herald's reporting exposed how a former U.S. attorney in Florida — who later became Trump's Labor secretary — reached a non-prosecution agreement in 2008, sparing Epstein a lengthy prison sentence. Giuffre and others have since sued, alleging that federal prosecutors in Florida violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act by not informing or consulting with them about the plea deal with Epstein.

Scarola, the Florida attorney who represents Epstein's accusers, said "it is reasonable to anticipate" follow-up indictments against Maxwell.
Whatever decision prosecutors make likely won't happen immediately.
"This thing will go on and there will be new development. Right now, everything's in turmoil," Levenson said. "I don't think prosecutors are going to make decisions overnight. The last thing they want to do is to bring charges and lose them. That doesn't help anyone. The ball's in their court."

Contributing: Kevin McCoy and Kevin Johnson
If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text "help" to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 or go to suicidepreventionlifeline.org.

[MiamiGent]

I certainly hope they took a lot of pictures of Epstein at the scene because after an autopsy, you'd hardly recognize your own brother

[MiamiGent]

Wow

Presumably the blood work being done now as part of the autopsy can shed some light.

No matter what the story turns out to be, this is a national disgrace.
We look like friggin Russia, for Pete's sake.

[MiamiGent]

Yes al, and retired prison workers and officials agree. They are saying keeping him on suicide watch was a "no brainer".

[al44]

Prison worker’s 4Chan post 10 minutes before news of Jeffrey Epstein’s death hit media: “…guy in a green dress military outfit… switched him out”

I linked the article if anyone cares to read it. Red flag is waving- A military clandestine op would NOT include someone dressed in military clothes. They would be in anything but. JMHO.....al

https://chimpplanet.blogspot.com/2019/08/prison-workers-4chan-post-10-minutes.html

[al44]

Epstein should have been the most protected inmate in the history of protective custody. Especially after one prior attempt on taking his life. (

August 12, 2019 by IWB


by WeAreTheResistance



Ultimately President Trump is the chief executive of the federal government. If he does not move forcefully and dramatically at removing those people in positions of power that allowed this to happen, it will raise my suspicions that he himself may be culpable and protecting those who did this.

It’s time for heads to start rolling.

[MiamiGent]

Yes, I read that theory you mention, Gmen- "if it's him". Anything is possible

But I refuse to believe the convoluted conspiracy theories that it just happened :)

I hope and pray Wm. Barr will have continued health to get to the bottom of this. It's hardly about Epstein- it's about Justice in America

Thanks for posting

[Gmenfan]

People didn't even get enough time to form a pool on when he was going to be taken out. I'm surprised he lasted this long, if it truly was him.

[MiamiGent]

I suspect Jeffrey Epstein was either murdered or allowed to kill himself:

1. Washington Post Reporter says he was attacked in earlier incident. Had bruises on his neck. There has been no explanation of what actually happened.

2. Reportedly was in good spirits- had some hope he would be freed based on the universal agreement his lawyers maintain he had

3. Was released from suicide watch

4. Cellmate was removed

5. Guards stopped checking on him

6. So many high ups stood to loose their reputation and possibly be charged

When it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck- it's probably a duck!

MG
No conspiracy theorist buts this smells to high heaven