Subject: RE: AG Briefing¶
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:57:40 +0000¶
Some small suggestions below. In particular want to preview the limited video evidence issue.¶
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Sent: Monday, October 7, 2019 10:16 AM¶
To: (USANYS) <¶
Subject: FW: AG Briefing¶
How does this look? Where can we get their photos?¶
last two months, more than forty witnesses, including 27 MCC as well as financial records for the relevant employees, used by certain of the relevant prison guards, and reviewed dozens of hours of the mine. Hence the FBI has thus far been able to recover from a heavily corrupted system. The investigation has determined principally that the two prison officers responsible for the SHU area during the night of August 9 and early morning hours of August 10 – did not conduct any of the required institutional “counts” at 12 a.m., 3 a.m., and 5 a.m., nor did they conduct most of the “rounds” they were required to conduct every 30 minutes. In particular, it appears that no prison official observed Epstein from approximately 9:30 pm on the evening of August 9 until his body was discovered at approximately 6:30 a.m. the next morning. and also falsified numerous forms, indicating that they had performed the required rounds and counts overnight although they did not actually do so. Instead, and were performing other tasks, using the computer, talking, or sleeping during their overnight shift. In addition, the investigation has determined that, contrary to MCC policy and a directive from the Chief Psychologist and then-Warden, Epstein was left without a cellmate from the morning of August 9 through his death on the morning of August 10. It is not clear that either or was specifically made aware of the directive, although had been on duty in SHU during Epstein’s prior suicide attempt and they were both trained on MCC policy and had the ability to assign Epstein a new cellmate.¶
Just in case you and your team aren’t busy enough, had suggested that it might be helpful to prepare a one-pager for the AG with pictures of the AUSAs with whom he’d be meeting and a paragraph or two on the substance of the briefing, with an eye toward circulating it to OAG early next week so he has visibility on who and what to expect. I connected with and about it, if you guys wanted to compare notes on how theirs will be styled.¶
Thanks—and sorry for the (further) intrusion!¶
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