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World & Nation
DOCUMENTS REVEAL NEW DETAILS OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S DEATH AND ITS FRANTIC
AFTERMATH
Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in court in West Palm Beach, Fla.,
in July 2008.
(Uma Sanghvi / Palm Beach Post via AP)
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO
Associated Press
June 2, 2023 3:21 AM PT
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NEW YORK — Two weeks before ending his life, Jeffrey Epstein sat in the corner
of his Manhattan jail cell with his hands over his ears, desperate to muffle the
sound of a toilet that wouldn’t stop running.
Epstein was agitated and unable to sleep, jail officials observed in records
newly obtained by the Associated Press. He called himself a “coward” and
complained that he was struggling to adapt to life behind bars following his
July 2019 arrest on federal sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges — his life of
luxury reduced to a concrete and steel cage.
The disgraced financier was under psychological observation at the time for a
suicide attempt days earlier that left his neck bruised and scraped. After a
31-hour stint on suicide watch, Epstein insisted he wasn’t suicidal, telling a
jail psychologist that he had a “wonderful life” and “would be crazy” to end it.
On Aug. 10, 2019, Epstein was dead.
Nearly four years later, the AP has obtained more than 4,000 pages of documents
related to Epstein’s death from the federal Bureau of Prisons under the Freedom
of Information Act. They include a detailed psychological reconstruction of the
events leading to Epstein’s suicide, as well as his health history, internal
agency reports, emails, memos and other records.
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Taken together, the documents obtained Thursday provide the most complete
account to date of Epstein’s detention and death, and the chaotic aftermath. The
records help to dispel the many conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein’s
suicide underscoring how fundamental failings at the Bureau of Prisons —
including severe staffing shortages and employees cutting corners — contributed
to Epstein’s death.
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They shed new light on the federal prison agency’s muddled response after
Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell at the now-shuttered Metropolitan
Correctional Center in New York City.
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In one email, a prosecutor involved in Epstein’s criminal case complained about
a lack of information from the Bureau of Prisons in the critical hours after his
death, writing that it was “frankly unbelievable” that the agency was issuing
news releases “before telling us basic information so that we can relay it to
his attorneys who can relay it to his family.”
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In another email, a high-ranking Bureau of Prisons official suggested to the
agency’s director that reporters must have been paying jail employees for
information about Epstein’s death because they were reporting details of the
agency’s failings — a spurious accusation that impugned the ethics of
journalists and the agency’s own workers.
The documents also provide a fresh window into Epstein’s behavior during his 36
days in jail, including his previously unreported attempt to connect by mail
with another high-profile pedophile: Larry Nassar, the U.S. gymnastics team
doctor convicted of sexually abusing scores of athletes.
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Epstein’s letter to Nassar was found “returned to sender” in the jail’s mail
room weeks after Epstein’s death.
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“It appeared he mailed it out and it was returned back to him,” the investigator
who found the letter told a prison official by email. “I am not sure if I should
open it or should we hand it over to anyone?”
The letter itself was not included among the documents turned over to the AP.
The night before Epstein’s death, he excused himself from a meeting with his
lawyers to make a phone call to his family. According to a memo from a unit
manager, Epstein told a jail employee that he was calling his mother, who had
been dead for 15 years at that point.
Epstein’s death put increased scrutiny on the Bureau of Prisons and led the
agency to close the Metropolitan Correctional Center in 2021. It spurred an AP
investigation that has uncovered deep, previously unreported problems within the
agency, the Justice Department’s largest, with more than 30,000 employees,
158,000 inmates and an $8-billion annual budget.
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An internal memo, undated but sent after Epstein’s death, attributed problems at
the jail to “seriously reduced staffing levels, improper or lack of training,
and follow up and oversight.” The memo also detailed steps the Bureau of Prisons
has taken to remedy lapses Epstein’s suicide exposed, including requiring
supervisors to review surveillance video to ensure that officers made required
cell checks.
Epstein’s lawyer, Martin Weinberg, said people detained at the facility endured
“medieval conditions of confinement that no American defendant should have been
subjected to.”
“It’s sad, it’s tragic, that it took this kind of event to finally cause the
Bureau of Prisons to close this regrettable institution,” Weinberg said in a
phone interview.
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The workers tasked with guarding Epstein the night he killed himself, Tova Noel
and Michael Thomas, were charged with lying on prison records to make it seem as
though they had made their required checks before Epstein was found lifeless.
Epstein’s cellmate did not return after a court hearing the day before, and
prison officials failed to pair another prisoner with him, leaving him alone.
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Prosecutors alleged that Noel and Thomas sat at their desks just 15 feet from
Epstein’s cell, shopped online for furniture and motorcycles, and walked around
the unit’s common area instead of making required rounds every 30 minutes.
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During one two-hour period, both appeared to have been asleep, according to
their indictment. Noel and Thomas admitted to falsifying the log entries but
avoided prison time under a deal with federal prosecutors. Copies of some of
those logs were included among the documents released Thursday, with the guards’
signatures redacted.
Another investigation, by the Justice Department’s inspector general, is
ongoing.
Epstein arrived at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on July 6, 2019. He
spent 22 hours in the jail’s general population before officials moved him to
the special housing unit “due to the significant increase in media coverage and
awareness of his notoriety among the inmate population,” according to the
psychological reconstruction of his death.
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Epstein later said he was upset about having to wear an orange jumpsuit provided
to inmates in the special housing unit and complained about being treated like
he was a “bad guy” despite being well-behaved behind bars. He requested a brown
uniform for his near-daily visits with his lawyers.
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During an initial health screening, the 66-year-old said that he had more than
10 female sexual partners within the previous five years. Medical records showed
he was suffering from sleep apnea, constipation, hypertension, lower back pain
and pre-diabetes and had been previously treated for chlamydia.
Epstein did make some attempts to adapt to his jailhouse surroundings, the
records show. He signed up for a kosher meal and told prison officials, through
his lawyer, that he wanted permission to exercise outside. Two days before he
was found dead, Epstein bought $73.85 worth of items from the prison commissary,
including an AM/FM radio and headphones. He had $566 left in his account when he
died.
Epstein’s outlook worsened when a judge denied him bail July 18, 2019 — raising
the prospect that he’d remain locked up until trial. If convicted, he faced up
to 45 years in prison. Four days later, Epstein was found on the floor of his
cell with a strip of bedsheet around his neck.
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Epstein survived that suicide attempt. His injuries didn’t require going to the
hospital. He was placed on suicide watch and, later, psychiatric observation.
Jail officers noted in logs that they observed him “sitting at the edge of the
bed, lost in thought,” and sitting “with his head against the wall.”
Epstein expressed frustration with the noise of the jail and his lack of sleep.
During his first few weeks at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Epstein
didn’t have the sleep apnea breathing apparatus that he used. Then, the toilet
in his cell started acting up.
“He was still left in the same cell with a broken toilet,” the jail’s chief
psychologist wrote in an email the next day. “Please move him to the cell next
door when he returns from legal as the toilet still does not work.”
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The day before Epstein ended his life, a federal judge unsealed about 2,000
pages of documents in a sexual abuse lawsuit against him. That development,
prison officials observed, further eroded Epstein’s previous elevated status.
That fall from grace, a lack of significant interpersonal connections and “the
idea of potentially spending his life in prison were likely factors contributing
to Mr. Epstein’s suicide,” officials wrote.
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