DIGITALLY RECORDED SWORN STATEMENT OIG CASE #: 2019-010614 OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL MARCH 16, 2022 RESOLUTE DOCUMENTATION SERVICES EFTA00117192 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE APPEARANCES: OTHER APPEARANCES: NONE EFTA00117193 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 3 EFTA00117194 EFTA00117195 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 5 General. This investigation is being conducted pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended. This investigation pertains to job performance failure and security failure. This is a voluntary interview. Accordingly, you do not have to answer questions. No disciplinary action will be taken against you if you choose not to answer questions. Any statement you furnish may be used as evidence in any future criminal proceedings, or agency disciplinary proceeding, or both.” The waiver states, “I understand the Warnings and Assurances stated above, and I am willing to make a statement and answer questions. No promises or threats have been made to me, and no pressure or coercion of any kind has been used against me.” Please review the form and if you understand and agree, please sign where it says Employee Signature. EFTA00117196 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117197 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117198 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 8 reviewing the camera, I was looking for an inmate that may have possibly departed the building. So, I was, I went to the camera to review the, to see if I can backtrack exactly when he left the building. I was present at the SIS office, with the Associate Warden from MCC New York at the time, which is , we both were looking at the camera, and at that moment, I noticed I couldn't rewind on the cameras. So, I couldn't get any playback. At that moment, we stopped, you know, like, searching for the inmate because we couldn't go back any further than the time we were at. And at that time, I notified communications tech . I called him over the radio and let him know, hey, I'm trying to rewind back the cameras, and the cameras won't rewind. And he said he will come and take a look at the system and see what was going on. And which he did. He did come down and he looked at the system, and he said he has to do overtime to fix the system. At that moment, I notified Captain . I apologized that the cameras was down, and I also provided EFTA00117199 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117200 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117201 EFTA00117202 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117203 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 13 EFTA00117204 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 14 EFTA00117205 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 15 EFTA00117206 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 16 EFTA00117207 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 17 EFTA00117208 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 18 EFTA00117209 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 19 EFTA00117210 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 20 EFTA00117211 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117212 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 22 EFTA00117213 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117214 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117215 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 25 EFTA00117216 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117217 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 27 talk, separate that out from the actual recordings working. How often do people go in and view the live feeds? MS. : It’s my - this is just, again, I would say it should have been daily because since I’ve been at MCC New York, normal practice was that the communication shop came up every morning, went into that area where, I don't know, like, the motherboard was at. And they checked it. So, that's what I’ve always was used to happening. And they will say, hey, you got some cameras down, or A, B, C, and D, because SIS uses the cameras a lot. You know? We going back for video. We looking for fights. Like, you know, they’re up on our desks sometimes who we’re just seeing who’s doing what. So, I would say daily that they definitely should be monitored. EFTA00117218 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 28 EFTA00117219 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117220 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 30 EFTA00117221 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117222 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 32 EFTA00117223 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 33 EFTA00117224 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 34 did receive notification from her that she CC’d me on an email about my documentation because these were my documents that were in her office. So, she said, hey, I just want to let you know that I gave them to the warden, whoever the warden was at that time, that was acting. And he stated he would give them to legal. EFTA00117225 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117226 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117227 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 37 EFTA00117228 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 38 EFTA00117229 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 39 So, this inmate name kept coming up. I can't remember if it was phones or, you know, narcotics. I can't remember. But his name kept coming up. And me and Omar Daza stated, okay, we're going to talk to this inmate together, to see if he had any role in what we were looking at. And me and Omar talked, then I said, this, Omar, this inmate got released. And that's what made me go and try to see exactly when he got released, you know, let me track what time EFTA00117230 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117231 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117232 EFTA00117233 EFTA00117234 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 44 EFTA00117235 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117236 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117237 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 47 EFTA00117238 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 48 EFTA00117239 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 49 MR. : "Federal regulations require that the warden of each BOP institution establish procedures to monitor inmate telephone conversations, which is done to preserve the security and orderly managing of the institution, and to protect the public. For safety and security reasons, BOP policy requires that all inmate telephone calls be made through the inmate telephone system, ITS. BOP policy recognizes that on rare occasion, in times of crisis, inmates may be permitted to make a telephone call outside of the ITS. In such circumstance, the telephone must be placed in a secure area; example, in a locked office, and must be set to record telephone calls. Additionally, the staff EFTA00117240 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 50 EFTA00117241 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 51 EFTA00117242 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 52 That’s why we have that ICS system in place, so we can go back and listen to the calls, and we can identify anything that was abnormal. MR. : And I know this is Monday morning quarterbacking the situation, but a situation like this, with Mr. Epstein, the fact of the circumstances that surrounded what happened between August 9th and 10th, looking back that he was allowed to make a phone call like that on August 9th, should that have been allowed? stated. We have no way of monitoring those phone calls. So, we don't know if - you know, just an example - if I may, we don't know if it was to intimidate a witness. We just don't know the context of the call because we can't go back to listen. We don't even know in the call if he was saying, hey, I'm feeling like this, because you have no way of going back and listening to that call. MR. : And being that someone, that EFTA00117243 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 53 EFTA00117244 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117245 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117246 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117247 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 57 EFTA00117248 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117249 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 59 EFTA00117250 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117251 EFTA00117252 EFTA00117253 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 63 EFTA00117254 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117255 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117256 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117257 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117258 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 68 EFTA00117259 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117260 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117261 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117262 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 72 EFTA00117263 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117264 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 74 ## CERTIFICATE I hereby certify that the foregoing pages represent an accurate transcript of the electronic sound recording of the proceedings before the Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General in the matter of: Interview of Brianna Rose Burton, Transcriber EFTA00117265