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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the

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Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're picking up where we

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left off with a CBS article titled the night Jeffrey

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Epstein claimed his cell mate tried to kill him and again.

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This article was authored by Dan russ Linik, Kara Tobotschnik,

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and Graham Kates. Epstein told a different officer that on

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the eve of the July incident, his cellmate had gotten

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a hold of a copy of the New York Deli News.

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Epstein a former financial advisor, confidante to some of the

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world's most powerful people, and prolific sexual abuser of girls

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and young women, said tar Taglioni. Pointed to a story

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about Epstein in the paper. Tar Taglioni said it placed

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his net worth at seventy seven million. According to Epstein,

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that figure matches evaluation for Epstein's New York match in

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cited in multiple articles in the paper that month. That's

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a bit of corroberation, right. This all came out that

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month in those articles, and all of a sudden, Tartaglioni

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has something to say. Knows about Epstein's finances. Wasn't something

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that was private at that point. So that certainly tracks,

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and it certainly fits with the story that Epstein was

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telling us. And again, look, I think that Epstein was

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telling the truth when it comes to what he says

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happened in that gel cell with Nicholas TARTAGLIONI, it all

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just makes sense. Everything fits so perfectly. Now. Of course,

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I won't sit here and tell you that I know

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for sure, because I don't have those receipts, But in

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my gut, I know for a fact that we're being

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lied to, and I know for a fact that something

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went on in that cell that had to do with

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Jeffrey Epstein being assaulted. And I'm talking about the first

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time around now his actual death. I don't know. Was

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this a message and then he was told to you know,

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you better do it yourself or will do it for you,

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like I was saying before. And that's always one of

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the theories that really stuck with me because I think

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it all fits the grander pattern of the kind of

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people that we're talking about. And make no mistake, those

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people that were talking about they're not above using systemic

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failures inside of a jail or a prison that they

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already know about in advance. To set something in motion,

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you have to understand the kind of people that we're

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dealing with here, and those are the kind of people

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that make shit like this happen. Epstein said that he

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crumpled up the article, threw it out, and turned in

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for bed. He told an officer he remembered waking up

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at one am to get a drink of water and

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walking back to his bed. The next thing he recalled,

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he said, was roughly half an hour later, when corrections

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officers rushed into his cell. Epstein initially said that he

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thought he was attacked, but later equivocated. He has to

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be put back in the same cell with Tartaglioni, according

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to a twenty twenty three report by the Department of

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Justice Inspector General, but also insisted he would never have

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tried to kill himself. He didn't want to be a snitch. Guys.

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Come on, He knew that he was going to be

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in this lock up for quite some time as he

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fought these charges, and he didn't want to get the

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reputation of being a snitch. That's exactly what happened here,

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nothing more, nothing less. So he retracted what he said

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originally and decided to roll the punches because at that

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point he understood and understood very clearly that the game

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had changed and that things weren't going to be what

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they were the last time around when he was arrested,

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and that started to dawn on him. And I think

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that was a very very sobering revelation for Jeffrey Epstein,

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Whereas before he would have said, look, TARTAGLIONI did this,

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and if you don't do something about it, I'm going

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to call my people at Justice. Well, those people at

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Justice at this point had already abandoned Epstein because he

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was a burned asset, so nobody was rushing in to

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help him this time around. In fact, they had cut

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all ties at this point. So when you start to

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look at it from that perspective, some of that fog

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begins to lift. And again, I can't say it for sure, right,

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I can't sit here and tell you, yeah, that's what

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happened one hundred percent. Here are the receipts, YadA, YadA, YadA.

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Can't do that. But what I can tell you is

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all the piece is fit and it's certainly not the

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narrative that they gave us. That certainly didn't happen. Not

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the truth, no way, no how So what's the most

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likely scenario my opinion, it's the one we just laid out.

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After the incident, Epstein was moved to a room where

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he was placed on suicide watch and closely monitored for

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the next thirty one hours. In his first minutes there,

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he twice sat on the edge of the bed and

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began moving forward as if he was attempting to fall

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over head first. A corrections officer wrote told to stop.

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Epste responded, Okay, I won't do it again, and gave

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the thumbs up. Another corrections officer assigned to watch over

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Epstein in the hours following the July twenty third incident

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was Michael Thomas. According to a document obtained by CBS News,

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Thomas is the officer who discovered Epstein dead in his

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cell on August tenth, twenty nineteen. According to the Justice Department,

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he and another officer were later charged with falsifying documents

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related to the night of Epstein's death, but those charges

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were dropped, of course they were. Of course they were

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nobody charged, nobody held responsible, Just the same old bullshit

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from the government. Oh was the systemic failure. We're gonna

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fix this. Nothing gets fixed, nothing gets changed, and the

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song just continues to play on, And of course that

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means it's gonna happen again at some point. They already

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know they can get away with it now. So the

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sky's the fucking limit, isn't it. Because Epstein was on

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suicide Watch after the July twenty third innscident, Thomas was

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required to record a log of observations about Epstein in

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fifteen minute increments, like for real, my guy Thomas over

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here needs to be completely investigated, and so does Tova Noel.

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What were they buying, did they have any influx of

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money after this event? All that stuff is relevant in

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my opinion, and that's why I say once again, we

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need a special investigator. We need a neutral party to

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take a look at what's going on and report back

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to the American people. And everybody has to be on

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the table. Anybody who was involved, bring them in, get

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them under oath, and if they lie, charge them just

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like anybody else. It's the only way to get to

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the bottom of this because we can't trust the DOJ

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to do it, and not just Trump's DOJ, but the

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DOJ in general. They've had how many chances to do this,

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and they've avoided it at all costs, So all of

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a sudden we should think that they're going to do

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the right thing. No way. We need somebody independent of

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the government who still has the power to subpoena and

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to bring prosecutions. That is the only way we're ever

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going to get to the bottom of this. So they're

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never going to do it right. We're never going to

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see that because the idea is to run out the clock,

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to make you forget about this, to have you think

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about other things, move on to the next disaster. But

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the truth is, too many people have now seen behind

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the curtain, and too many people are now demanding the truth.

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The notations were released by the Bureau of Prisons in

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twenty twenty three, along with just one entry he made

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in the log, a note made at two fifteen am,

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forty five minutes after the incident. Translation. He broke the

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law and was never held accountable. I mean, we're not

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talking about a guy who's screwed up in order at

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McDonald's right. We're talking about somebody who made a gigantic mistake.

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And I don't even think it was a mistake. I'm

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gonna go with negligence instead. A mistake is forgivable. This

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isn't a mistake. Looks wilful to me. Now. Of course,

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that could just be me being cynical, right, but when

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you look at the whole situation and all of the

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issues that occurred, how can you not be cynical about

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what went down? Fifteen minutes later, at two thirty am,

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Thomas wrote inmate, sitting on bed, trying to remember what happened.

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Around that time, a correction supervisor was interviewing Tartaglioni about

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the incident. Tartaglioni said he had given the bottom monk

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to Ebstein because he was old and had moved his

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own mattress to the floor. Oh yeah, what a magnanimous guy. Huh,

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nobody's moving their mattress to the floor at mcc Sorry.

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Tartaglioni told a corrections officer he was sleeping with his

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headphones on when he felt something hit his legs. Jeff,

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what are you doing, Tartaglioni said, he asked into the darkness.

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He said he turned on the light and found Epstein's

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sitting slumped on the floor, leaning to the side with

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his eyes open but unresponsive, with fabric around his neck.

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According to another officer's memo, Yeah, fabric you put there?

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Who do you think you're kidding? Again? Look, I'm sorry,

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but I don't believe Nicholas Tartaglioni. And I know I've

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said that multiple times, but it's worth repeating. Anybody who's

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out here trying to massage this dude's reputation or tell

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you that he's not a scumbag is crazy. Tar Taglioni said.

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He then yelled for gel staff. Documents reviewed by CBS

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News do not indicate what steps GEL staff took to

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investigate Epstein's allegations related to tar Taglioni. In response to

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questions from CBS News, the Bureau of Prisons said the

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agency does not provide information related to investigations. In other words,

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go get fucked. You're not getting any information. You're not

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going to know anything about what went down, and that's

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just the way it's going to be, and there's nothing

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you can do about it. For those of you who

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are new to the story, welcome to the mosh pit.

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This is what we've been dealing with now for literally

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six years. And let me remind you, this is exactly

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the kind of shit that cash Bettel said he was

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going to get rid of. That. We were going to

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have transparency and we were all going to know the deal. Well,

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how'd that work out? The GELS chief psychologists later speculated

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to investigators for the Inspector General that there were three

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possible explanations for the incident. In one version of the event,

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she wrote, either Epstein or a TARTAGLIONI were gaming the

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system to get something they wanted. Another explanation was that

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Epstein had conducted a rehearsal of his eventual suicide. A

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third possibility was that, as Epstein initially claimed, he was assaulted.

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She told investigators that she considered the third scenario less plausible,

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although she did not know for certain. Oh I'm sure

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less plausible. Huh A four time in the jail cell

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of Jeffrey Epstein. But it's not plausible that he attacked

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them for insert reason here. They really think you're stupid.

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That's what they're banking on, that you're stupid and that

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you're just gonna accept whatever kind of bullshit they're serving up.

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Epstein remained on suicide watch for a little more than

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a day. During that time, inmate volunteers kept blogs briefly

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documenting check ins at fifteen minute intervals. The morning updates

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were largely mundane. In made Epstein's pacing around in made

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Epstein is hungry. In made Epstein washed his neck. By

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the next evening, he became more chatty. According to the logs,

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in made Epstein is talking about finance. In made Epstein

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is talking about science, and made Epstein is talking about math,

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and made Epstein is talking about the prison environment. Epstein

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is talking about his experience teaching mathematics and physics, one

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volunteer wrote in successive updates. On the morning of July

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twenty fourth, Epstein's status was downgraded from suicide watch to

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psychological observation. That day, a regional administrator who oversaw more

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than a dozen jails in prisons as for an explanation

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of the change, inmates placed under psychological observation as opposed

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to suicide watch were considered not eminently suicidal, he was told.

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One of the forensic psychologists told investigators it was not

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healthy for inmates to stay on suicide watch for extended

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periods of time she observed signs of positivity, and that

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Epstein adamantly denied suicide. Even the downgraded status bothered Epstein.

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The record show he insisted to jail staff that he

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wouldn't try to kill himself. He denied feeling helpless. He

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is reporting positive future plans and reasons to live for

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one staffer wrote in August first report, he described himself

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to one source that week as too much of a

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coward to kill himself, and wondered aloud to another source

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if the incident had been a prank gone wrong. The

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event was expunged from Epstein's official record after the jail's

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disciplinary proceedings failed to prove he committed self mutilation. Imagine

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that shit exponged after he allegedly tried to commit suicide

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in a jail cell with a man there on four homicides.

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I guess all this informations on Pambondi's desk as well. Huh,

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right there with the list and everything else she promised.

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Following the incident, Epstein expressed concern to the Bureau of

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Prison employees about being housed back in the same unit,

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saying he felt it was dangerous. According to the IG report,

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Epstein was assigned a new cellmate. Ephrin reeis and moved

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back on July thirtieth. Nine days later, Reis was transferred.

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As night fell, Epstein found himself without a bunkie. Hours later,

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the early morning quiet of the secure housing unit was

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once again punctured as corrections officers call for help. Epstein

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was once again on the floor of his cell. This

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time his body was called to the touch. Now I

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have no idea how anyone can look at the circumstances

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surrounding all of this, his death will lead up to

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it and believe the official narrative, And I think that

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it takes a whole hell of a lot of gumption

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for the government to try and pitch this to people

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who actually know better. But the truth is they don't

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care because they know there's nothing we can do to

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force the issue. So instead, what they'll do is they'll oficscate,

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they'll kick the can down the road a little bit further,

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and they'll hope that people forget. But as I've said

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a million times, at this point, nobody's forgetting and we're

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certainly not moving on. All of the information that goes

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