DIGITALLY RECORDED SWORN STATEMENT OIG CASE #: 2019-010614 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL MARCH 16, 2022 RESOLUTE DOCUMENTATION SERVICES 28632 Roadside Drive, Suite 285 Agoura Hills, CA 91301 Phone: EFTA00127124 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE APPEARANCES: OTHER APPEARANCES: NONE EFTA00127125 EFTA00127126 EFTA00127127 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. EFTA00127128 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00127129 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00127130 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 AW , 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 EFTA00127131 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00127132 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00127133 EFTA00127134 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00127135 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 13 EFTA00127136 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 14 EFTA00127137 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 15 EFTA00127138 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 16 EFTA00127139 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 17 EFTA00127140 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 18 EFTA00127141 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 19 EFTA00127142 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 20 EFTA00127143 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00127144 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 22 EFTA00127145 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00127146 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00127147 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 25 EFTA00127148 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 26 EFTA00127149 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. EFTA00127150 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 28 EFTA00127151 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00127152 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 30 EFTA00127153 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00127154 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 32 EFTA00127155 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 33 EFTA00127156 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. EFTA00127157 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00127158 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00127159 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 37 EFTA00127160 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 38 EFTA00127161 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 39 EFTA00127162 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00127163 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00127164 EFTA00127165 EFTA00127166 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 44 EFTA00127167 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00127168 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00127169 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 47 EFTA00127170 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 48 EFTA00127171 49 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 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 EFTA00127172 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 50 EFTA00127173 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 51 EFTA00127174 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. 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