The victims of Jeffrey Epstein deserve to have questions asked about his death. This does not mean that he must have been murdered. It means that questions about his death have not been asked, still need to be asked, and should be asked, including:
- Why was he left alone in his cell when he was on suicide watch?
- Why was he not watched, for that matter? Every person who is on suicide watch is supposed to be checked at least every 30 minutes. Epstein's guards said they did not check on him for 3 hours. Why not?
- Epstein had two guards. They both claim to have fallen asleep. A forensic pathologist is a doctor who investigates deaths under these circumstances. An expert forensic pathologist who specializes in unexplained prison deaths says that he has never had two people fall asleep at the same time who were keeping an eye on a supposed suicide risk. Not in his entire career. Not once. What happened here?
- The surveillance videos of the area surrounding Epstein's cell, including the hallways, are corrupt and show no pictures. What happened to the surveillance videos?
- Bill Barr infamously said that the New York City jail where Epstein was incarcerated was not safe for him. That is the reason Barr gave for moving Epstein into a federal prison, where Epstein died. What was the reason, really, that Epstein was moved?
There is a new government in town. The department of justice has a second chance now. It has a chance to be a Justice Department. The FBI also has a second chance now. Second chances are rare indeed, but they too have one. The FBI can and should investigate now; it did not investigate before.
"The government has an obligation to investigate this part of the story, if for no other reason than to bring closure for all the women he abused." Julie K. Brown, Perversion of Justice 566 (2021).
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