The heroic reporter for the Miami Herald Julie K. Brown is reporting on the shredding of bags of documents following underage sex trafficker and friend of the Malignant Fascist Jeffrey Epstein in the jail where Epstein died before he was scheduled to testify. From her report:
"Less than a week after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead inside his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, something was afoot inside an office where the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ After Action Team had set up a probe into what had happened to their most high-profile inmate. The FBI was told that there were people shredding documents. Bags of them.
An inmate at the jail was ordered to take the bags of shredded material to MCC’s rear gate and throw them in a dumpster on Thursday, Aug. 15, and again on Friday, Aug. 16, days after Epstein’s Aug. 10 death, records show. The sheer volume of material seemed unusual, the inmate noted. 'They are shredding everything,' the inmate told one of the guards, adding that he was asked to give the officials, whom he did not recognize, a hand with the shredding. 'Make sure you get that box too,' one of the men allegedly told him. The inmate wasn’t the only one who found it out of the ordinary. A corrections officer at the detention facility called the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center that same night, a Friday, at 6:28 p.m. to report that he had 'never seen this amount of bags of shredded documents coming out to be put in the dumpster at the rear gate of MCC.'" (our emphasis)
Epstein's death was late in the MF's first term, and he clearly had the motive to destroy documents that could have incriminated him in Epstein's crimes against juveniles. He was also in control of both the Bureau of Prisons and the FBI at that point. Brown notes that in the early phase of the investigation into Epstein's death, the FBI's investigation was turned over to the Department of Justice's IG, which has no criminal investigation responsibility. More irregularities identified by Brown:
"In fact, there were so many irregularities discovered at the Manhattan jail that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) opened three separate probes into the case, with different case numbers, records and emails show. First, there was the probe into Epstein’s death, which the medical examiner concluded was a suicide by hanging. Despite the ruling, a forensic pathologist hired by Epstein’s estate disputes the finding by Dr. Barbara Sampson, who was then the chief medical examiner of the City of New York. Dr. Michael Baden, also a former New York City chief medical examiner, argued that the injuries found in Epstein’s neck and the ruptured capillaries in his eyes were more consistent with strangulation than suicide by hanging." (our emphasis)
We can imagine the the MF's connections to organized crime in New York City may have entered into this picture. A dirty cop who shared Epstein's cell, Nicholas Tartaglione, was accused by Epstein trying to kill him earlier.
Read Brown's entire piece. Again, a Pulitzer Prize quality piece of investigative journalism if there ever was one.
(photo: The MF to bff Epstein: "She's hot")
