DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE | OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
# MEMORANDUM OF INVESTIGATION
Case Number:
Reporting Office:
2019-010614
Boston Area Office
## Interview of
On August 4, 2021, Senior Special Agent and Special Agent U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG), conducted a voluntary interview of Supervisory Correctional Systems Specialist Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) New York, New York, within the MCC New York. The interview was conducted in reference to an official OIG investigation surrounding the death of BOP inmate Jeffrey Epstein, Register Number 76318-054, who was previously housed at the MCC New York. The interview was recorded, and the recording has been transcribed. The interview transcript and documents discussed with during the interview, and provided by following the interview, are attached to this report. The audio recorded interview has been saved separately to the case file due to its large file size.
## Attachments:
1. Transcribed interview of the recorded interview of conducted on August 4, 2021
2. OIG Warnings and Assurances Form signed by dated August 4, 2021
3. Email dated August 8, 2019, from Sampson Choo, United States Marshals Service (USMS), to the MCC New York
4. Email dated August 8, 2019, from , USMS, to the MCC New York
5. MCC New York Form PP38 Daily Log on August 9, 2019
6. Inmate Fernandez Housing Quarters History report
7. MCC New York Daily Lieutenant's Log on August 9, 2019
8. MCC New York Daily Lieutenant's Log on August 10, 2019
10. Email dated August 5, 2019, to regarding the hiring of a new General Foreman at the MCC New York
9. Screenshot from MCC New York Special Housing Unit (SHU) Video
11. Email dated August 6, 2019, to regarding a SHU meeting
12. Email dated August 18, 2019, from regarding wellness checks conducted on BOP employees Tova Noel and Michael Thomas
13. Email dated August 19, 2019, from regarding overtime worked on August 10, 2019
14. Photograph of BOP email Inbox showing no emails between August 9, 2019, and August 15, 2019
15. Email dated August 6, 2021, from with an attached example of a Court Production List
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Reviewed By:
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Senior Special Agent
Assistant Special Agent in Charge
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OIG Form III-210/4 (09/06/2018) This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the IG. It is the property of the IG and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside of your agency.
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