Mega Edition: How The Death Of Jeffrey Epstein Broke Established Protocol (3/31/26)

What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles.

The whole entire situation surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's death has been shady to say the least

from the very beginning. And no matter how much time goes by, I still can't wrap my head around

how badly they botched the whole investigation. We're not talking about some random guy who was

picked up on a petty charge. This was Jeffrey fucking Epstein. A dude tied to billionaire's

ex-presidents, royals, CEOs, half the god damn Forbes list, and they treated him like some low-level

nobody and holding for shoplifting. You'd think what the names he could drop

they'd guard his ass like the crown jewels. Instead it was amateur hour from start to finish.

We're supposed to believe that one of the most watched inmates in America just happened to kill

himself in one of the most secure jails in the country under constant supervision while every

single safeguard breaks down at the exact same time. Sure, bad luck, huh? More like the setup for

a bad movie. You add guards who were asleep on the job like literally sleeping and others who

falsified logs to make it look like they'd done their rounds. Cameras conveniently malfunctioned

right outside of cell. The only cell in the entire facility anyone in the right mind would

actually want footage from. They said the camera memory cards were corrupted and couldn't be

recovered. That's like saying the fire alarm broke during a fire. What are the odds, right?

Add to the fact that his cellmate was mysteriously transferred the night before,

leaving him alone despite protocol requiring two inmates per cell after a suicide attempt.

You might call that negligence, but it looks like obstruction to me.

Then there's the timeline. None of it fits. The supposed suicide happens in the window when

the guards were asleep. The checks weren't done, and the cameras were off. No witnesses, no footage,

no accountability. They found them with bedsheets that somehow supported a full grown man's weight,

tied to a bunk frame that was barely higher than his knees, and yet his neck bones were fractured in

ways that lined up more with strangulation than hanging. Even the medical examiner could make

sense of it. Dr. Bodden, the former NYC corner, straight up said that the injuries didn't match

suicide by hanging, but the official story rolled out like a press release. Case closed, folks,

nothing to see here. The so-called investigation that followed, please, it was a joke from the jump.

The FBI and the DOJ did their review, but they didn't release squat. No full timeline,

no cell inspection records, no interviews, that went anywhere. Just a couple of asleep

press conferences with the same rehearsed lines. We're committed to transparency. Sure you are.

They barely even talked to the people who might have actually known what went down that night,

and don't get me started on Bill Barr acting like he was shocked, then backing the suicide

conclusion before the dust even settled, and then, like clockwork, everyone got disciplined.

Which in government speaks means quietly reassigned, given paid leave. Nobody got fired for

letting the most infamous sex trafficker in modern history die on their watch. They just

stand dead out wrist-slaps and moved on. You had two guards who admitted to falsifying records,

and they walked away with probation. No gel time. Think about that. Epstein's dead, the cameras are

off, the guards lied, and somehow they get to go home and watch TV while the rest of us were told

to swallow the official story. If any of us pulled that same stunt at a warehouse factory or hell,

even McDonald's, would be fired in facing charges before the day was over.

The thing that really gets me is how quickly they buried this story. One week is front-page news.

The next, it's like it never happened. And you can tell from the start that they wanted it gone.

The press got limited access. Witnesses went silent, and every document worth reading got buried

under ongoing investigation. Nonsense that never produced a single clear answer.

The Bureau of Prisons acted like a deer in headlights. The DOJ ran interference.

And the media stopped asking hard questions. The second it stopped trending.

It's like they all looked at each other and decided, all right, enough truth for today.

And yeah, let's be real. The idea, like a guy like Epstein who had dirt on some of the most

powerful people on the planet, just conveniently died before naming names. Yeah, pull the other one.

We've all seen the movie before. Every time a scandal threatens the elite,

something unfortunate happens, and the people who might have talked, end up silent.

Permanently. The system closes ranks, throws a few crumbs to the public, and moves on.

This trick was old when Jesus was young.

And look, the story never made sense then, and it makes even less sense now.

Nobody can explain where the missing footage went, why the cellmate vanished,

why the suicide watch was lifted, or why the autopsy doesn't line up with the narrative.

They keep saying, we may never know the full truth.

Well, that's bureaucratic speak for, we already do, but we're not telling you.

It's insulting. They're not even trying to make the lie convincing anymore.

Nobody at the top got burned for this, not one warden, not one supervisor, not one DOJ official.

Just the usual government shuffle, deny, deflect, delay.

The same machine that protected Epstein while he was alive,

made damn sure he couldn't talk when it mattered most. They called it a tragedy,

but it was a clean up job, plain and simple. So yeah, the narrative didn't make sense then,

and Cherazelle doesn't know. The whole thing wreaks a rod from top down.

Epstein might be gone, but the sting from that cover up is still thick in the air.

Every time they tell us to trust the system, I can't help but laugh.

Because if that's what justice looks like, we're all screwed.

The system didn't fail, it performed exactly how it was designed,

to protect its own and bury the rest. And the rest of us?

We're just left staring at the wreckage, shaking our heads, knowing damn well,

we'll never get the truth. Today's article is from CBS and the headline.

In cell where Jeffrey Epstein died, a scene of disarray that never underwent thorough inspection,

experts said this article was authored by Daniel Rutnik, Graham Kates, and Kara Tabatchnik.

The federal investigation into the death of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein

was marred by significant lapses experts told CBS News, including the failure by investigators

to interview potential witnesses, properly preserved certain evidence, and run basic forensic tests.

And this is all stuff we've been talking about for years now.

I mean, this is not new news. All of this stuff came out at the time and we were told to get stuffed.

It's an ongoing investigation. You can't have that information yet.

We'll release this information someday, but today's not the day.

And that's been the song and dance we've received from the government whenever we've tried

to get answers. And I'm talking about freedom of information, act requests, etc.

It's been one stonewall after the other. And that's because they know the investigation was

garbage. They know that they didn't do the things they were supposed to do. And they don't want

the rest of us to know it. Nearly two years past before investigators interviewed the top key

corrections officers on duty the night Epstein died in his cell in the Metropolitan Correctional

Center in downtown New York City. And what was later ruled as suicide, according to court

documents, one of those officers was the only person to attest to seeing Epstein hanging by a

bed sheet from his bunk. Like, come on, man. How can anyone out here really just buy into what

they're telling us and just accept it hook line and sinker? Like, I just don't understand.

If they've bullshitted us about everything else, basically, you really think they're going to

give you the truth here? We're still getting JFK documents at a slow roll. But all of a sudden,

we're getting full transparency about what happened with Epstein. The idea is to run out the clock.

The idea is to wait for you to fatigue. And details pulled from the 90 photos of the cell

and other evidence collected in the hours after Epstein's death. But before FBI agents arrived to

process the scene, appeared to show a succession of basic oversights ranging from an absence of evidence

markers to items being moved, experts told CBS News, which shouldn't even happen. The scene should

be treated as a crime scene. Every death in prison or jail is looked at as a homicide first.

And that obviously didn't happen here. And they didn't follow protocol from the very beginning.

And that's led us to a place where we are today. And it's my assertion that that was always the

plan, confusion. That's their best defense, right? To have everybody arguing about what happened.

They'll fire off some numbs call as narrative. Some people will buy into it. Other people will

have questions, but it gives them the cover they need. Well, we have an ongoing investigation.

We can't give you any information. And then they thrive in the confusion. Because when people are

confused, it's much easier to control the narrative, right? And that's why you see all of these crazy

storylines that intersect when it comes to Epstein. That's all by design. And that's why we don't go

on any of these crazy as goose chases here on the podcast. That's what they want. They want everybody

to sound crazy as fuck and chase and ghosts. Well, they're not going to get their wish here.

The FBI literally has all of the best tools. I mean spared no expense. They have every tool

you can imagine. And they use none of it as far as we can tell forensic analysis Nick Barario

said after reviewing the photos many of which have never been published.

How are there not way more people pointing out this absurdity of this? Well, thank you for

showing up to the party, Nick Barario, because I've been pointing this out for years.

None of it made sense then. And it doesn't make sense now. The whole entire so-called investigation

was straight up trash. And it was designed to fail. If you think that investigation was

launched to get answers, you're crazy. In my opinion, they already have those answers.

And the answer is Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.

The images were previously obtained by 60 minutes after the recent release of surveillance video

from the night Epstein died, which appeared to show details that contradicted official reports,

CBS reviewed them and other documents with several forensic experts. And while I appreciate

CBS shown up to the party, they're a bit late. We could have used you folks shown up to the party

a few years ago, because there's no way we're getting a full picture about what went on now.

How much evidence has been deraded? How much evidence has been destroyed?

The results of the federal investigation were made public in 2023, four years after Epstein's death,

and are reported by the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General.

It concluded that the financier, who entered a guilty plea in 2008, on state-level charges of

procuring a child for prostitution, died by suicide. That matched the findings shared by attorney

General William Barr, who told Congress in August he had no doubt that Epstein had taken his own

life. But lingering questions raised by individuals, including Epstein's lawyers and brother,

have fueled continued speculation and suspicion, and it should.

Why should anyone just accept the narrative? That's the question I have, and that goes for both sides

of the aisle. Whenever we have a Republican in charge, the Democrats don't trust the FBI all of

the sudden. And then when a Democrat's in charge, it's the same thing. Meanwhile, I'm over here

telling you that none of that shit matters. Meet the new boss, Sam is the old boss, and what I mean

by that is nothing's going to change. And that's because the president's just a placeholder.

Every four or eight years, a new person comes in, out with the old and with the new, but guess what

remains? The people that are making those decisions behind the scenes, and unfortunately those are

the very same people that were in lockstep with Epstein. I do not believe he died by suicide. No,

Epstein's co-defendant, Elaine Maxwell, said this summer during her interview in August,

with Deputy U.S Attorney General Todd BabyBilly Blanche. Well, Elaine Maxwell.

A real paragon of virtue, huh? But even liars tell the truth sometimes.

And I have to agree, I can't believe I'm saying that, with Elaine Maxwell, when she says she

doesn't think that he killed himself. I don't think he killed himself either, not willingly.

Now, maybe he did so because he was ordered to do it, you know, Tartaglioni sending the message,

and then Epstein killing himself and finishing the job. But I don't think he did it on his own,

not without some motivation. And that's because if you talked to everybody around them,

all of his family, his friends, his lawyers, even the psychologists, there were no signs that the

do was suicidal. Epstein's brother Mark told 60 minutes in 2020 that in his view, the evidence he

has seen to date points more to murder than suicide. Five years later, he still questions the

investigation. This was never properly investigated as a proper homicide. It was never investigated.

Mark Epstein told CBS News recently. Nothing about the CBS News review into the investigation of

Epstein's death suggests foul play. Oh yeah, but the review found that the federal probe did not

follow typical investigative procedures into this suspicious death. Yes, so we'll just bumble

our way through it and then we'll use that as our cover. They think you're stupid. That's what

this is all about. They truly think you're stupid. Don't fall for it. The reason they had this

shoddy ass investigation is so that later on down the road, they can say, oh, look, mistakes were made.

There was some serious errors and our personnel wasn't trained correctly to deal with it.

Meanwhile, nobody's been trained up. Everything's still the same. So when it happens again,

it'll be the same bullshit, right? Oh, wait, it's not going to happen again because this kind of

thing very rarely happens. And you can go and look at MCC and look at the people who have died there.

It's not like people were killing themselves on a regular basis. So the whole entire narrative

is stunk from the jump and it stinks even more now. And the more they double down on that

narrative, the more suspicious it looks. All right, folks, we're going to wrap up episode one

right here. And in the next episode, we're going to pick up where we left off all of the information

that goes with this episode can be found in the description box. What's up, everyone? And welcome

back to the program in this episode. We're picking up or left off talking about Jeffrey Epstein's death

via that CBS article. Once again, this article was authored by Daniel Routnik,

Graham Cates, and Kara Tabatchnik. Evidence Photography 101. Epstein's body was discovered at 630 AM

on August 10, 2019 by a corrections officer Michael Thomas when he arrived at his cell to deliver

breakfast. Thomas said he found the accused felon in a near seated position, suspended from the top

of the bunk by a homemade noose with his legs straight out and his buttocks approximately one

inch to one and a half inches off the floor, according to the inspector general's report.

Internal corrections department memos obtained exclusively by CBS news, the scribe them as cold

with no palpable pulses. And remember, Michael Thomas was one of the guys that was in charge of

maintaining Jeffrey Epstein's supervision. But instead, he was busy screwing around on the computer,

sleep in, reading the internet, you name it. And what happened to him? That's right, nothing.

The first FBI agents arrived at the cell more than seven hours later at 135 PM, according to the

2023 report. But when they arrived, photo show that they found a disorganized rifle through clutter,

crucially, Epstein's lifeless body had already been removed from the cell, eliminating a critical

source of information, investigators would need to determine how and when he died forensic pathologist

Michael Bodden said, now, why would they do that? Why would you remove this body? Why would you

call and get guidance right away from the FBI or Bureau of prisons, whatever? We're not talking

about some nobody here. And don't get that twisted. I don't mean anybody deserves that kind

to treatment, but I'm talking about the scope of the kind of inmate we're talking about here.

This is a man that is a high profile inmate, a man that might have information on other people.

Do you really think this is the proper protocol to follow?

The fact that he was moved diminishes the ability to determine how long he was dead before he

was found. Bodden said emergency medical technicians wrote in their reports on the incident,

which was obtained by CBS news that the staff they interacted with cannot say when Epstein was

last seen alive or describe how he was found in the jail cell, other to say we found them on the

ground. No pictures taken nothing. You would think you'd come in there with body cameras,

everything, right? Let's make sure we memorialize the scene and make sure everything's on the

up and up. There's going to be questions, but no. And we're supposed to just suck this shit

down like the good little robes we are. Well, I'm telling you right now that I don't buy it.

And I'm not going to buy it until you give me some definitive proof because everything about

this investigation hell, everything about the investigation screams cover up.

Inside the cell piles of linens had been strewn about mattresses were squeezed into a corner

on the floor near his bunk bed and Epstein's personal items were rearranged or moved photos from

the scene show experts who reviewed photos from the scene for CBS news said there were also

inconsistencies between the investigators official reports and what the images show. Well,

why would they give us the real story? There's nothing that's going to challenge them right?

Not the DOJ, not the BOP and Epstein's family. Nobody's going to listen to what Mark Epstein has to say.

But I'll tell you this much right now out of all the people that we've heard from,

all the people involved. I think that Michael Bodden is the most respected as far as

professionally. I mean, I remember as a kid watching that show on HBO with Michael Bodden.

I forget the name of it now. Some kind of, you know, criminal corner tapes or whatever the

fuck it was called, but it was fascinating as hell back then. And this is a guy that's been

involved in how many autopsies. So I'm going to defer to Michael Bodden and what he has to say.

And if you want to believe what the state of New York and the federal government has to say instead,

then that's completely fine. Just know that the evidence doesn't line up with the narrative that

you're being pitched. In those photographs, it was obvious that things were moved around said former

New York police department detective Herman Weisberg, who is now managing director of sage intelligence.

It definitely appeared to me that the scene was for a lack of a better term staged a bit. Yeah,

yes, it was. They did that on purpose. They wanted the cover. And that cover is, oh,

shucks, we're just a bunch of ignorant morons who don't know how to do our job.

And how do you challenge that? Very difficult, right?

You got yourself a whole last baked in alibi right there. We're just bad at our job.

And while I don't disagree that most of these people probably were or are bad at their jobs,

I think that the coincidences that piled up here are a lot more than just coincidences.

One coincidence fine. The guys fell asleep. If that was just it, I get it. People have rough nights

to the day before they're out partying, whatever it might be. But all of this stuff to happen at

the same exact time in the same exact place to the same exact inmate. Come on, man. Epstein's medications,

a special mask for treating sleep apnea and at least one piece of fabric tied into a noose

appeared in different places over the course of 90 minutes. One of a photographer from the medical

examiner's office was documenting the scene. And that's another reason why I just don't believe

what they're pitching us. There has been a lot of tom foolery, if you will, when it comes to this

crime scene investigation. And then after that, we start learning about stage photos. We start

learning about the questions that were even being poised by the corner himself. So there's a lot going

on here. And they just want to file it all under coincidence. And it's obviously not true.

Wiseburg and other experts emphasized that, regardless of whether Epstein's death was a suicide,

the cell should have been treated as a crime scene using standard investigatory practices.

And this is what I was saying earlier. I have friends that are prison guards. And they told me

straight up that everything that happened here was against protocol. Now they didn't work at MCC,

but they have worked in federal lockups. And according to them, none of this was on the up and

up. Now again, that doesn't mean that they're saying that it was some kind of, you know,

hit job or whatever. They're talking about from the investigative portion of it. None of it adds up.

So when you have all these things that converge at once, what are we supposed to think?

It almost appears to me that whoever was investigating this just took it at face value,

that it was a suicide with no foul play whatsoever suspected. Wiseburg said,

but in a situation as high profile as this, I would always as an investigator consider

that there might be foul play. Yeah, you don't know what's going on, especially if the cameras

are broken. Nobody was checking on them. Guards were negligent. They're duty.

You're just going to go with suicide right off the bat and be like, hey, that's what it is.

No need to do an investigation here. We already know. Bitch, you don't know nothing.

And that's becoming very apparent as the day slip by.

While some experts question federal investigators' treatment of the scene, forensic pathologist

Judy Melanick, who used to work at the New York City Medical Examiner's office,

said her former employer, appears to have handled the case by the book. Oh, of course.

Go ahead and try out the mouthpiece that used to work in the office.

I'm just going to tell you right off the bat, I don't believe a word that Judy Melanick has to say.

It's just people doing what they normally do for any other case. Melanick said,

the majority of cases, if you weren't such a high profile, decedent, the scrutiny would not apply.

This is how they treat every other jail death of somebody who is not high profile. That is

incorrect on a lie. Just another person trotted out by the powers that be to try and tell you

some bullshit and use their official title or former official title as some sort of justification

for the shit they're saying. Well, guess what? I don't believe you. How about that, Judy Melanick?

The sequence of evidence photos starts with a picture of the stairs leading up to Epstein's

cell block, Tyrell. Underlying data from the photo shows it was taken at 9.34 am,

three hours after Epstein's body was found, and four hours before the federal investigators arrived.

Why would it take them four hours to arrive? You mean to tell me there's not an FBI

field office close to MCC that could dispatch some officers right away? What exactly is it

that they were doing? Or rather, should I say, what were they giving the staff at the jail time

to do? Time went by even as the nation's top law enforcement officer sought a rapid investigation.

I was obviously covering it very quickly and wanted to rule out anything other than suicide,

bar toll congress in August. Adding that within an hour or minutes of finding out about it,

I directed the inspector general to have people in New York go to the scene and conduct an investigation.

Now, I don't know if you know this about me or not, but I don't trust Bill Barr.

I don't trust Darth Barr as far as I can throw him.

Everything this guy says about Jeffrey Epstein sets the alarm bells going in my head.

I just don't trust anything Bill Barr has to say.

On the back wall, a surveillance camera is visible. It was streaming, but not recording.

This was due to a hard drive malfunction that had previously been identified but not fixed

according to a justice department report. So who all knew about that?

You want to get deep in the weeds? Was it an inside job? Did somebody know that the cameras weren't

working? Then Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, they do their little fall asleep routine,

may pretend they're tired, whatever. And then Epstein's clipped.

Seems just as plausible as any of the other bullshit they're trying to pitch to us.

In fact, seems even more plausible.

Next is a blurry image of the door to Epstein cell number 220. Running underneath the door was

a cable that provided power to a CPAP machine. Epstein had initially been assigned to a cell in a

different tier. What he was moved to cell 220 for easier access to an outlet,

according to the Bureau of Prisons records. And that's another thing that doesn't make sense.

Why would he use bedsheets and not just this cord? If you're going to kill yourself,

would you put together a bunch of bedsheets? Or would you use the cord for your sleep apnea machine?

I think I'd go with the cord, makes things a lot easier, right? And if you want to make sure

you're successful, probably better off than a bunch of sheets that are tied together.

The Jail's computer systems were never updated to note that move, according to investigators.

A source close to the investigation told CBS News that correction staff rarely updated

internal inmate moves instead referring to call out their names while in the tiers.

Two documents on the door are shown in images after Epstein's death. One was a printout with

Epstein's personal details and a booking photo. Above that was the ID card for Epstein's former

roommate, Efron Reyes, Stone Reyes. You know the guy that billbar ended up having a personal meeting

with, and then said he didn't meet with him in the deposition? Yeah, that same Stone Reyes.

Cells typically hold two inmates and following a suspected suicide attempt two weeks earlier,

Epstein was mandated by correction officials to have a cellmate. The day before Epstein's death,

however, Reyes was transferred out of the detention center.

Investigators eventually concluded that Reyes moved allowed Epstein the solitude needed to kill

himself. Well, do you think Reyes made that decision himself or was he moved? Okay, who signed off

on it? Why? What was the motivation? Why wasn't another inmate placed in the cell with Epstein?

Why was all of this protocol broken? From the first photo to the last, it's clear the scene in

the cell was chaotic. So much so that investigators never conclusively determined, which strip a

bed sheet was around Epstein's neck when he died. How the fuck don't you even determine that?

I mean, you're the federal government, right? You have all the power, all the ability,

all of the technology. The only reason why something like that occurs is because you want it to occur.

You don't want to get to the answers. You don't want to get to the bottom of it.

Instead, let confusion rain. Photos of the bed also raise questions. One shows an orange

string hanging from a bar. This picture was included in a 2023 report by the Department of Justice

Inspector General alongside a description of how Epstein was found. Suggesting investigators

believed that was what he used to hang himself. Yeah, don't buy that. And when you look at these

photos, I doubt you're going to buy it either. If that was the case, and the room hadn't been

disturbed before the photographer arrived, Epstein's rear would have come to rest on a mattress

instead of hovering over the floor, complicating investigators' explanation of how he

hanged himself. So let's just move the body. Let's just stage the scene and then we'll claim ignorance

when, you know, people have questions later on. Best way to do it, right? We're just ignorant.

We didn't know. We're just a bunch of people who are untrained, unqualified, shouldn't even be here.

But hey, here's what happened. You should listen to our narrative now, because even though we're

ignorant, even though we're morons, we're telling you the truth now. Yeah, sorry, not buying it,

not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Some of the evidence was not photographed in Epstein's cell,

but instead appeared to be in an entirely different room, one with floor tiles distinct from the

barriconcrete of Epstein's cell. These pictures show a defibrillator and another strip of orange

cloth tied into a newsly shape. It is visibly different from the one shown hanging from Epstein's

bed frame. Of course it is because it's not the same one. Just listen to what we have to tell you.

Don't question anything. Don't do any kind of constructive reasoning. Just listen to the narrative

and shut up and move on. Well, here's an idea. At least try and pitch us a narrative that makes sense

because what you're selling here is garbage. There is no indication in official reports

where this news was found or which of several nodded strips of Bedlinon may have been removed

from around Epstein's neck. A rendering of this news was included in Epstein's official autopsy,

but the Justice Department later revealed in its 2023 report that the news depicted is not the

ligature Epstein used to kill himself. So why include it in the report? Well, that's right,

trying to make it look official like they had an idea of what was going on. And isn't it convenient?

The whole entire narrative fits with the whole perfect storm narrative. Oh, this was a screw-up,

that was a screw-up, everything's a screw-up, and it was all a mistake. By the time that the FBI

arrived, it was clear that their work would be scrutinized by the top press inside the Justice

Department. After the suicide, I told the headquarters to make sure that they flooded the zone,

barred, told Congress, and an August deposition. There is no indication in any official report

that an FBI crime scene investigator, officially known as an evidence response team,

ever ran fingerprints or DNA tests on anything found in the cell. Well, no shit, they didn't.

That's what they do in a real investigation. Not an investigation that they want to claim was botched.

Epstein's autopsy report indicates medical examiners collected fingernail clippings and swabs

from his neck and hands. Epstein's brother told CBS News that he still hasn't received any

information about the results of DNA tests. If they were carried out, and Barr said in his

deposition that he couldn't remember if they had been done. Now, folks, look, was this ignorance

because of ignorance or was this willful ignorance in hopes to cover up what happened?

I'll leave that up to you to decide. A 2024 report by Department of Justice researchers

warned that their investigators risk missing an important opportunity to gather evidence

if DNA is not collected at the scene as needed or at the time of examination. They advised that

the body swabs should be considered both at the scene and during the autopsy.

Wiseburg said investigators left too many stones unturned, missing the opportunity to close the

case in a way that would feel conclusive to the public. In the back of any good investigators mind,

he's preparing this to be scrutinized by counsel. In this case, you're preparing it to be scrutinized

by a lot of desktop detectives so you better have all your facts straight.

Wiseburg said the FBI inspected the cell and retrieved what they believed to be relevant to

its investigation into the cause of Epstein's death, which included one-torn sheet,

miscellaneous papers, and an MP3 player. Inspector General Investigators wrote in the 2023 report,

forensic analysis, Barario said he considered the agency's treatment of the scene to be striking.

Some really shoddy work here, if you can even call it that, Barario said, I mean there's absence

of work here. One basic procedure, which Barario referred to as evidence photography 101,

is photographing scenes in a progression that goes from wide shot to close-ups with markers

identifying evidence. There's no evidence markers in any of these photographs, like how do you

keep track once you get the stuff back to the crime lab? This is essentially useless, said Barario,

a former police detective, and an FBI trained member of the digital imaging and video recovery team.

So look, it's not just my dumb ass saying this, you have people that are actually trained in the

art of investigation who feel the same exact way. And I've spoken with a lot of people who have

knowledge of how these investigations should work, and they all come to the same conclusion that

we're getting here from Mr. Barario. Federal investigators question 54 people before

issuing their final report, including three inmates who had been housed on Epstein's tier,

as well as jail staff, administrators, contractors, and his brother. However, several other witnesses

or the representatives told CBS News, they were not interviewed. That included many other inmates

housed in Epstein's tier, the night of his death, at least one staffer who arrived at Epstein's

cell shortly after his body was found, and nearly all of the visitors he saw in the days,

leading up to his death. Now why wouldn't you talk to everybody that was there?

Especially the other inmates. Two witnesses who did provide eyewitness accounts with their

lawyers present were in the cell directly across from Epstein the night he died. One described seeing

Thomas, the first corrections officer on the scene, enter Epstein's cell and begin performing CPR,

only to emerge holding a rope and a defibrillator. The other said he saw Thomas enter in

Shake Epstein. He said Thomas tried to pick Epstein up but fell over. He then began giving

chest compressions the inmates said. The accounts, which appear in the official report,

do not explain what is seen in photos of the jail tier, their cell windows covered by paper

that could have obscured any view outside. It's not clear if the cell window was papered over

at the time after Epstein's death but before the first photos were snapped. The Bureau of

Prisons declined to comment. Now why would they decline to comment? It's not an ongoing investigation

anymore. What are they hiding? And you know what really gets me? I think they forget that they

work for us. This isn't their information to guard. This is our information taxpayer information.

We pay for all of it. So guess what? Quippy and assholes and pony it up.

Attempts to reach Thomas were unsuccessful. A lawyer for his former co-worker, Tova Noel,

said she would not comment. The former officers agreed to be interviewed by investigators in 2021,

as part of a deal that saw prosecutors drop charges of falsifying records related to mandatory

checks on Epstein and other inmates after falling asleep on the job. Imagine? Imagine that shit?

No real punishment here. They get to go on with their lives, probably getting some kind of

pension in shit. And here we are, left with all these questions and no answers.

Other staffers with first-hand knowledge of the scene and other events were never contacted by

federal investigators, according to interviews with CBS News. That's because they had their narrative

in place from the jump. They knew what this was going to be and they called it from the very

beginning what they wanted it to be, a suicide. Even though there was never any real investigation,

investigators also decided not to interview some of Epstein's visitors, several sources told CBS News.

The inmates spent the bulk of his daylight hours with a large, rotating cast of attorneys,

including on the day before his death. The younger lawyers were there not only to provide counsel,

but also to basically hold his hand, and babysit, according to one source, they kept Epstein

company, chatting with him about life, politics, literature, and any other topic that came to his mind.

You'd think if the investigation was a priority, they'd want to take a run at the younger

people who were working for him, one source told CBS News, nothing. One lawyer who visited Epstein

nine days before his death was David Shone. He said Epstein told him he was actively planning to

fight the criminal charges levied against him, and this is what we've heard from so many people.

That Epstein planned on fighting these charges. And this is why I've said that in my view,

I don't have anything to base it on other than anecdotal. I don't think he committed suicide,

because he was engaged in the idea of fighting the case, Shone said he hired me and kill himself

nine days later, wouldn't have made much sense. While many who were close to Epstein have publicly

questioned that he died by suicide, Boris said it was and remains the most logical conclusion.

The alternative would have been too complicated, Boris said, and his August deposition. Yeah,

too complicated, huh? Let me break it down. Nicholas Tartaglione put in the cell.

Nicholas Tartaglione assaults Jeffrey Epstein and tells him either you kill yourself or will do it

for you. Jeffrey Epstein gets moved to a different cell, has time to think about it, maybe gets a

kite, maybe gets a message from another inmate or Tartaglione himself, who knows. And from there,

Epstein realizes that his options are limited. So instead of waiting for the inevitable,

did he kill himself because he was prompted to? You want to talk about the most likely

conclusions, huh? This would have required coordination from probably two dozen people,

maybe within the prison, and all these people were in different groups. Bar said,

you know, the people who were repairing the cameras, the people who, you know, were responsible

for opening and closing the door, the people who were responsible for putting in a new cellmate,

things like that. So the idea here is to make sure that there's enough blame to go around,

but not one single person to put the blame on. And that gives them the plausible

deniability they're always looking for. And that's what this is here, plausible deniability.

Does anyone really believe this narrative, especially nowadays with all the information that's

coming out? I know I don't. And from the emails that I get from you folks, I know you don't either.

And you know, sometimes I just sit back and think about how this whole thing went down,

Epstein's death, the investigation, the silence that followed, and it just feels like one big

reminder that the rules don't mean a damn thing when power is involved. Folks like us get crushed

under the system for the smallest mistake, but the people who built that system, they walk through

the fire untouched, even when their fingerprints are all over the crime scene. It's like there's two

versions of justice in this country, one for them, and one for the rest of us. An Epstein

so-called suicide was a perfect example of that. You can't tell me that a guy who had that much

dirt on the world's elite sitting in a cell where every inch should have been watched,

somehow managed to pull off the impossible while every safeguard magically fell that once.

That wasn't a coincidence. In my opinion, it's orchestration. The timing, the silence, the way

every institution, from the Bureau of Prisons to the DOJ closed ranks and said, case closed.

You could practically hear the door slam shut on the truth. And the worst part? Nobody

seemed surprised. That's how broken things are. We expect corruption now. We expect lies.

We just hope that the lies are creative enough to make sense. And this one wasn't even that.

And when they tell you to move on, well, you know that's when they're scared,

scared of what could come out if people really dug deep, scared of what happens when the

average Joe stops buying their story. Because underneath all the press releases and political

double speak, there's a truth sitting there, ugly as hell, and impossible to ignore.

They didn't just fail to protect Epstein. They protected his secrets that he took with him,

and those secrets belonged to people so powerful, so insulated, that even his death became just

another tool in the kit. So yeah, maybe Epstein's gone, but the system that made him protected him

and then cleaned up after him, that's still here, still humming along, still telling us to trust

the process. But the process is a problem. The investigation wasn't a failure, it was a performance.

A stage play for the public designed to look like accountability while the real players vanish

behind the curtain. And we've all seen enough of this show to know how it ends. With the truth

buried, the file sealed, and the same people sitting at the top untouched. Look at the end of the

day, you can't call it justice if it doesn't apply to the powerful. Epstein's death wasn't the

end of the case, it was the erasure of one, and the longer that they tell us to let it go,

the more I know we're right not to. Because every unanswered question, every broken camera,

every lie that doesn't add up, it all points to the same ugly truth. Justice wasn't served,

it was silenced. And until that changes, this country's just running on fumes and fairy tales.

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