SWORN STATEMENT¶
DIGITALLY RECORDED¶
OIG CASE #:¶
2019-010614¶
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE¶
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL¶
APRIL 7, 2022¶
RESOLUTE DOCUMENTATION SERVICES¶
28632 Roadside Drive, Suite 285¶
Agoura Hills, CA 91301¶
Phone: (818) 431-5800¶
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Federal Bureau of Prisons employee, is being conducted as part of an official U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General investigation. Today’s date is April 7, 2022. The time is 10:22 a.m.¶
This interview is being conducted at the Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, New York Field Office. Also present are DOJ/OIG Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge, and via phone is DOJ/OIG Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge,¶
This interview will be recorded by me, Special Agent . Could everyone please identify themselves for the record and spell your last name. To start again, I am¶
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being asked to provide information as part of an investigation being conducted by the OIG. 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 any questions. No disciplinary action will be taken against you if you choose not to answer any questions.¶
Any statement you furnish may be used as evidence in any future criminal proceedings or agency disciplinary proceedings or both.Ӧ
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.” This is the same form we’ve provided you before.¶
MR. . : Please review it. If you understand, on the right side, please print your name and sign your name. If you understand and agree —¶
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maybe one housing unit was totally piped in and maybe ready to go, but even then, it wasn’t ready to go because you still needed a fiber upgrade. We could have put it on single mode, but it would have had issues. It wasn’t -. And then, we still didn’t even have CAT-5. There was a lost of stuff we just didn’t have to finish the upgrade.¶
MR. . : Okay. So, after Mr. Epstein’s death, did they bring in more employees?¶
MR. . : Yes, they brought a lot of TDY help, and that’s when a lot of stuff happened.¶
MR. . : And once they brought in all the employees, how long did it take to actually put the - forget about the cameras - how long did it take to put the wiring in?¶
MR. . : After Epstein’s death – so they were closing down the prison in August of, well, we found out August-September. I was still working, like, two or three times a week on overtime installing conduit, and running wires, and installing cameras. And even with all that said, there was still - I remember I¶
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one camera we had on the unit, that wasn’t going to solve everything.¶
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MR. . : Yes, because that was the Evidence Room. And like I stated before, I was told numerous times that we should have our own key or get your stuff out of the Recorder Room.¶
MR. : Okay.¶
MR. : And that’s how it is at most institutions. Just the Recorder Room. Nobody else but the Com Techs have that key or should. MDC Brooklyn, I have the same problem now because that room is – I don’t mean to be talking off - but they use that room for other stuff, so now you have people that do have the key. These two institutions are rare because when I worked in Terre Haute, only the Com Techs had the key to go in the Recorder Room. Nobody else should have the key.¶
These two institutions for space or whatever, they use an excuse and other people have the key to go in the room and nobody should have the key but the Com Techs.¶
MR. : Okay. So, prior to August 10th, 2019, you did not have a key to that —¶
MR. . No. We talked about it before —¶
MR. : — Recorder Room?¶
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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:¶
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