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In Short-Staffed Jail, Epstein Was Left Alone for Hours; Guard Was Substitute
NY Times ^

Posted on 08/12/2019 3:39:16 PM PDT by springwater13

One of the two people guarding Jeffrey Epstein when he apparently hanged himself in a federal jail cell was not a full-fledged correctional officer, and neither guard had checked on Mr. Epstein for several hours before he was discovered, prison and law-enforcement officials said.

Those details emerged on Monday as Attorney General William P. Barr sharply criticized the management of the federal jail in Manhattan where Mr. Epstein, who was accused of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls, was found dead on Saturday morning.

“We are now learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and demand a thorough investigation,” said Mr. Barr, who, as the country’s top law enforcement official, is responsible for federal prisons.

“We will get to the bottom of what happened,” he added. “There will be accountability.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; US: New York
KEYWORDS: billbarr; epstein; jeffreyepstein; newyork; sidebarabuse; substitut; williambarr
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To: springwater13

If they are short staffed, operating security cameras would be helpful to keep watch with fewer people. Apparently their cameras don’t work either. What BS lies.


81 posted on 08/12/2019 4:48:40 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: springwater13; SE Mom; Jane Long

Info on Warden Shirley Skipper-Scott is scarce.

She did once sue Eric Holder:

Skipper-Scott v. Holder et al

Case Number:
3:13-cv-00017

Court:
Mississippi Southern

Nature of Suit:
Civil Rights: Jobs

Judge:
Henry T. Wingate


82 posted on 08/12/2019 4:51:57 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Bon mots
Not buying it.
She's cheating on the Hangman game. The second "E" in EPstein should be showing ... unless she's saying it was not Epstein, but some else ... Epstoon? Epstain?
83 posted on 08/12/2019 4:53:01 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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To: traderrob6

Your government at work.


84 posted on 08/12/2019 4:55:03 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: springwater13

“There will be accountability.”

Wouldn’t want to be the warden...he might miss his next bonus.


85 posted on 08/12/2019 4:57:28 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: catnipman

Don’t forget the coincidence of the cameras malfunctioning at that exact time as well.


86 posted on 08/12/2019 4:58:12 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Dr. Sivana

Well, we should give Hillary one of the legs, because she should have the other “e”. :)


87 posted on 08/12/2019 4:58:17 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: maggief

Is she the warden or associate warden?affirmative action at its best.


88 posted on 08/12/2019 5:01:43 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: springwater13

Ok, they’re f*ing incompetent. Fire them all for starters. No excuses.


89 posted on 08/12/2019 5:04:08 PM PDT by DJ Frisat ( (optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: springwater13

What a joke.


90 posted on 08/12/2019 5:06:21 PM PDT by stockpirate (Anyone who believes Epstein killed himself is a fool)
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To: camle
DID he commit suicide?

Really, it's academic whether he was a party to the crime or an unwilling participant. What's important is he shouldn't have died, and he did. It was not in his power to accomplish this alone.

But if he was inclined to participate in his death, then it was straightforward for his co-conspirators to let him commit the act. Feign concern for his well-being when he complained of being attacked. Remove the suicide watch at his request. Don't react when staffing levels drop below the minimums to maintain safety. And one little deviation, the transfer out of his cell of his cellmate during that time of staffing shortage, perhaps also for "his safety". Warden Shirley didn't even need to coordinate these things with anyone, she could act on her own initiative. All she needed to feel was a sure sense that Epstein's being alive was much less convenient for her friends, politically, than his death would be for her.

On the other hand, if Epstein somehow developed a zest for life in prison? Perhaps he had vain thoughts of freedom, or a desire to end his days with rectitude. Well, then, the operation would be much more technical. Credentials added to the DOJ system and then erased? Camera footage to alter? Finding the right muscle for the job? Much more tricky, many more hands on the wheel, far greater room for error, infinitely more loose ends to clean up later. Not ruling it out, just saying the whole thing would be much, much simpler for TPTB if Epstein did it himself.

91 posted on 08/12/2019 5:06:44 PM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: springwater13

It would be interesting to know the wage of the prison guards who were supposedly working their 5th straight day of overtime at the fed facility, and how much they normally make in overtime pay beyond their regular wage. Maybe they like being short staffed if they make 100k in overtime very year.

Freegards


92 posted on 08/12/2019 5:07:08 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: 4Liberty

Why skip the Trump rally? He cannot control every peon in every department, or are you disgusted because there has not been a house cleaning?


93 posted on 08/12/2019 5:09:52 PM PDT by madison10
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To: springwater13

Back in the 60’s when I was about 15, I watched a late night newscast where a fellow who was to testify against some corrupt pols came home the night before and was killed by robbers he interrupted.

I don’t see this bullshit as much different.

Do they really think we’re that stupid?


94 posted on 08/12/2019 5:25:22 PM PDT by umgud
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To: gcparent
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/jail-protocols-for-checking-on-jeffrey-epstein-before-suicide-not-followed-sources/ar-AAFGm8o?li=AAgfIYZ

The warden of the MCC facility, Shirley Skipper-Scott, has not commented on Epstein's death.

https://www.facebook.com/shirley.skipperscott

95 posted on 08/12/2019 5:27:21 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Pravious

“Isn’t it fun watching them throw stuff up against the wall, hoping one of their silly explanations will stick?”

I prefer my old boss with his earthy, “That sh_t don’t flush”.


96 posted on 08/12/2019 5:29:09 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (‘When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.’)
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To: springwater13

I’m no conspiracy theorist—I seriously doubt he’s part of the supposed Clinton body count—but I have no doubt that someone of Epstein’s wealth and influence could persuade a jail employee or two to be looking the other way while he offed himself.

Besides, if the Clintons were responsible, they would have shot him in the head and then, to cover up the murder, killed everyone else on the plane by having it crash into a mountain, or done something else entirely sane, plausible, and not at all worthy of a James Bond supervillain.


97 posted on 08/12/2019 5:30:25 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: umgud

Not that they think we are that stupid. They don’t care what we think!


98 posted on 08/12/2019 5:30:53 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: maggief

Just got a text that an employee says there’s a safe on the island that has more than money- maybe an “if anything happens to me” sort of thing..
Maybe part of why the feds are there now.


99 posted on 08/12/2019 5:32:32 PM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“Don’t these guards have a drum recorder in which they have to use a key, placed at various areas in the jail, to show they were there on time?”

Those were utterly reliable, built like bank vaults, and basically impossible to hack undetected.

Of course, they have been replaced.


100 posted on 08/12/2019 5:35:36 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (‘When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.’)
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