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Actual facts:
Epstein arrived at Metropolitan Correctional Centre (MCC), New York on or shortly after July 6th. He was kept in general population after he arrived but was soon moved to the SHU on wing 10 South for safety, kept in strict solitary confinement in the most secure wing of MCC (SHUs, also know as The Hole, are prisons within prisons and are generally use for punishment, the most dangerous and violent inmates and new inmates who are assessed to see how much of a risk they pose).
Epstein has been held since his July 6 arrest in the Metropolitan Correctional Center. He was briefly detained in the general population at MCC, where he mingled with other inmates, but was soon moved to the facility’s highly restrictive 10 South wing, another person said.
Sometime after July 12th, Epstein was transferred again to the slightly less restrictive SHU on wing 9 South.
More recently, he was moved again, to a slightly less secure area called 9 South, where he was held in a cell with Nicholas Tartaglione
He was placed in a cell with Nicholas Tartaglione. Tartaglione had been transferred to the SHU because he was caught with a cellphone on July 3rd.
Tartaglione made headlines recently after correction officers confiscated an illicit cell phone that was found in his cell on July 3, according to court records. He claimed his cellmate had tossed it to him as correction officers approached the cell, prosecutors said.
On July 23rd, Epstein allegedly attempted suicide by hanging, his neck was injured. Tartaglione was moved to another cell. Tartaglione claimed, (link for EU visitors) via his lawyer Bruce Barket, that he saved Epstein's life after he found him hanging.
After medical treatment for injuries to his throat, Epstein was placed on suicide watch. He was moved from the cell he shared with Tartaglione and placed a suicide observation cell. He was checked every 15 minutes and the lights kept on 24/7. I don't now if he was he was in the cell on his own or with another inmate, if there was it wasn't Tartaglione who was under suspicion. Suicide watch usually lasts a few days as condition are oppressive. Epstein as kept on suicide watch for 6 days.
Epstein was taken off suicide watch on July 29th. Some sources write that Epstein directed his lawyers to get him off suicide watch, did so by claiming that Tartaglione "roughed him up" (Tartaglione was later cleared of any wrongdoing).
Barket added: “We were a little worried that he would make up something to get out of suicide watch or try and argue for bail, but it’s pretty clear what happened, given the end result here.”
Tartaglione's lawyer infered that Epstein's lawyers got him off suicide watch so he could commit suicide.
The prison psychologist said he examined Epstein and agreed that he should be taken off suicide watch. The psychologist also works at MDC, Brooklyn, he travels between the two prisons and deals with 500 inmates with serious mental illnesses. He's busy.
Epstein placed back the Special Housing Unit of 9 South, in a cell with the unnamed 2nd inmate.
Epstein signed his Last Will and Testament on Thursday August 8th in front of at least 2 lawyers and a notary, the 11 page document placed his $577 million fortune in a trust controlled by two executors, both lawyers, who control a charity based in the US Virgin Islands. The executors were paid $250,000 each for agreeing to operate the trust.
Executors: DARREN K. INDYKE - Darren K. Indyke, American lawyer, specializing in the field of International Law, Corporate Law, Tax Law, Securities Law, Litigation.
RICHARD D. KAHN - Richard D. Kahn is a lawyer serving New York in Corporate Law, Securities Regulation Law and Non-Profit Organizations Law cases.
It's furthermore claimed that the charity was created the same day he signed his Will. Putting his assets in an offshore trust makes it much harder for his victims to access his assets.
Here is the Last Will and Testament of Jeffery E. Epstein.
(Here Lawyers discuss Epstein's Will and in particular they explain how the arrangements make it very hard for the victims to access his assets. Epstein's assets may not have been moved yet, the transfer of assets and other matters will be decided by a Probate Court due any time around now. The transfer of assets might yet be blocked).
Also, on Thursday August 8th, the file against Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell was unsealed, that would have weighed on his mind.
And on Friday August 9th, the day after his signed his Will, Epstein's mystery 2nd cellmate posted bail, leaving Epstein on his own...
Multiple sources told CBS News that Epstein's cellmate at the Metropolitan Correctional Center posted bail last Friday, leaving Epstein alone in his cell the day before he died. Another source familiar with the investigation said it appears Epstein had been dead one to two hours before he was found.
Given this guy posted bail, it wasn't Tartaglione. Also, I wonder who posted his bail. Funny coincidence that he posted bail the day after Epstein put his affairs in order.
The cell had a bunk bed, with a ladder to the upper bunk (see this government report about MCC, New York and photos inside the SHU). The cell should have been checked by guards every 30 minutes,but they slept for several hours.
The jail was understaffed. There was only 18 guards on duty that night, guarding 750 prisoners, and only two guards on Epstein's wing. Staffing was reduced in early 2018 due to a federal hiring freeze. MCC claimed that one guard was on his 5th straight day of overtime and the other on manditory overtime, and only one of the guards was a trained prison guard, the other was a teacher or a nurse.
My Personal opinion...
Epstein committed suicide.
I also think his lawyers knew his plans, helped him prepare and may have paid the bail of his mystery 2nd cellmate, clearing his cell for an interrupted suicide attempt.
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What did you take away from the use of world "girl"? Why use the term girl to describe a neurosurgeon? Was it use to imply Andrew was involved with a child?
It normally takes 4 years of undergraduate medical education and years of medical college education and residency at a hospital to become a neurosurgeon, a total of 14 years or more, so if she was a newly graduated neurosurgeon she was likely about 32 years old.
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There's already several cheap Russian gamma ray scintillation detectors on the market.
Atom Fast 8850, Radex Obsidian and Radiacode-101
They are very robust. I dropped my Atom Fast a couple of times and it still works. Also, it uses very little power, the battery lasts a month. It connects to my phone over Bluetooth LE, I map radiation using an app, Atom Dosemeter.
Here's a radiation map I made using the Atom Fast.
They are very popular in Russia and eastern European countries but are hardly known in the west. The makers of the Atom Fast run a website where users can publish their maps, hardly any uploads are form owners in the West.
The Radex Obsidian and Radiacode-101 also do basic gamma spectroscopy.
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There's a few cheap Russian gamma ray scintillation detectors on the market:
Atom Fast 8850, Radex Obsidian and Radiacode-101
I have an Atom Fast 8850 (the CsI crystal is 50x8x8 mm). It has no display, looks a bit like a long cigarette lighter. It connects to my phone using an app, Atom Dosemeter. The battery in the Atom Fast lasts about a month, so I presume it's a Bluetooth connection.
Here's a review of the device:
And here's a radiation map I made, exported to CSV (also exports kml and gpx) and mapped in QGIS.
These little devices are very popular in Russia and eastern European countries but are hardly known in the west. People used them to find radiation contamination forgotten about in the chaos of the collapse of the Soviet Union,with radioactive contamination turning up in crazy places like the middle of cities and towns, along footpath, playgrounds and parks, then cleanup crews go in and clean up the mess.
Here's an example, a news story:
https://starcom68.livejournal.com/2614552.html
And here's video of the guy discovering this contamination:
The makers of the Atom Fast run a website where users can publish their maps, from their app, but hardly any uploads are from owners in the West.
The Radex Obsidian and Radiacode-101 also do basic gamma spectroscopy and have screens. The Radiacode-101 is probably going to sell more in the west as its the only one with a nice website in English.
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It is not rare to find multiple fractures and injuries to the neck in partial non-drop hanging (see below).
Hanging can also cause pitikia (rental hemorrhaging).
Assuming this claim is true, it is likely the autopsy finding were withheld as they knew Mark Epstein's hired pathologist, Michael Baden, would submit a diverging opinion to promote the idea he was murdered.
And why would he say that?
Epstein signed his last Weill and Statement on August 8th, 2 days before his suicide. His Will places $577 million in assets off shore in the 1953 Trust (created the same day), out of reach of his victims. They now only have 4 months to end their pursuit of justice and file claims againts the Trust i.e. this is a bribe to get his victims to stop perusing justice and allow many of Epstein's co-conspirators off Scott Free.
At least one of Epstein's victims, I think Maria Farmer, attempted to block the Will on September 13th but failed. Another tactic would involve claiming Epstein was suicidal/mentally ill (diminished capacity) at the time his signed his Will and/or that his lawyers enacted unethically at the time, helping a suicidal Epstein's set his affairs in order while knowing he was about to commit suicide (an opinion expressed by Bruce Barket, lawyer for ex-cop Nicholas Tartaglione).
In order to protect the Will, it is self evident that around Epstein have an incentive to promote the idea he was murdered rather then he committed suicide.
Here Lawyers explain Epstein's Will, how it is deliberately designed to make it as difficult as possible for his victims to access his assets. They also explain how suicide so soon (2 days) after signing a Will can invalidate it and raise ethical concerns. This is the Last Will and Testament of Jeffery E. Epstein.
An operational camera filmed the guards sitting at their desk 15 feet from Epstein's cell. Other cameras show no one entered or left the Special Housing Unit on 9 South all night. This is detailed in the indictment againts the two guards who slept and surfed the web rather than check on Epstein every 30 minutes as they were supposed to. This evidence is the result of an FBI investigation. What the report fails to mention are the 60-70 hour work weeks, that one guard had worked several days of overtime the other on forced overtime, that once of them (Thomas) wasn't a trained prison guard, he was a Materials Handler Supervisor. It does not talk about the staffing crisis affecting federal prisons ,nor does it admit there were only 18 guards in the entire jail that night minding 750 prisoners.
We know from the deposition to Congress by Dr. Kathleen Sawyer, the director of the Bureau of Prisons, that MCC is half way though an upgrade of its antiquated camera system; half the cameras are old analogue models that cannot film in dark conditions. The one or two cameras on 9 South (reports vary) did not film clear footage, these were likely the older analogue cameras. It is expected that the remaining analogue cameras will be upgraded to digital across the entire Federal jail system by the end of 2020.
Here's the indictment againts the two guards, it goes into detail about what when on, including what was filmed by the operational cameras on 9 South:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1218466/download
As mentioned earlier, J Epstein's brother, lawyers, co-conspirators have an incentive to lie about suicide in order to protect the August 8th will from challenge.
The 1953 trust is a $577 million bribe to his victims to drop their pursuit of justice, let others go. If the Will is invalidated, on grounds of diminished capacity or unethical behavior of his lawyers, then his victims have far more than 4 moths to pursue justice. Other co-conspirators could be more easily held to account.
This is the notice that briefly appeared in a news paper's website on the US Virgin Islands on Sept 18th 2019:
The notice above was soon deleted from the website it was posted to, but I found it on Wayback Machine by sheer luck:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190923013759/https://stcroixsource.com/2019/09/18/in-the-matter-of-the-estate-of-jeffrey-e-epstein-deceased/
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As for the injuries to his neck.....
It is not rare to find multiple fractures and injuries to the neck in partial non-drop hanging.
Several studies investigated fractures of the hyoid bone, hyoid cartilage, and other neck injuries in "incomplete hanging" i.e. where the body is partially suspended in non-drop hanging, the type of hanging that Epstein was involved in.
In a survey by Simonsen (1980), who personally examined 80 cases of hanging, where no hangings was of a drop type, he found that in 50 cases of incomplete hangings, between 64% and 31% had fractures to their hyoid and/or hyoid cartilage. The difference in frequency fractures depended on the position of the knot / ligature. Fractures were far more common in older adults and very rare in the young, he found no person under 25 with a hyoid fracture (this paper is helpful due to the large number of older adults examined).
Furthermore, Zátopková et al. (2018) found that Laryngohyoid fractures (damage to the thyroid cartilage connecting hyoid to mandible) are very common in cases of incomplete hanging:
The incidence of laryngohyoid fractures in the full-suspension group was 75.7% (84 of 111 cases), while the incidence in the incomplete suspension group was 67.2% (45 of 67 cases).
So it is clear that incomplete non-drop hangings, as alleged in the case of Epstein, frequently cause fractures to the hyoid bone, the hyoid cartilage and Laryngohyoid cartilage, especially in older adults.
There is also Green et al. (2000):
So is not rare to find multiple fractures and injuries to the neck in partial non-drop hanging.
References:
Green, H., James, R.A., Gilbert, J.D. and Byard, R.W., 2000. Fractures of the hyoid bone and laryngeal cartilages in suicidal hanging. Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine, 7(3), pp.123-126.
Simonsen, J., 1988. Patho-anatomic findings in neck structures in asphyxiation due to hanging: a survey of 80 cases90012-6). Forensic science international, 38(1-2), pp.83-91.
Zátopková, L., Janik, M., Urbanová, P., Mottlová, J. and Hejna, P., 2018. Laryngohyoid fractures in suicidal hanging: a prospective autopsy study with an updated review and critical appraisal. Forensic science international, 290, pp.70-84.
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