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   https://nypost.com/2020/07/04/questions-that-still-need-answering-about-   
   epsteins-death/   
      
   Even before prosecutors announced they were likely shipping Ghislaine   
   Maxwell to the the scandal-plagued New York lock up where her pedophile   
   pal Jeffrey Epstein died in custody last summer, alarm bells were pealing   
   over her safety.   
      
   “I’m absolutely worried for Ghislaine’s safety,” said Christopher Mason, a   
   journalist and TV presenter who is appearing in “Surviving Jeffrey   
   Epstein,” a Lifetime documentary series beginning next month. “I kind of   
   don’t believe he [Epstein] committed suicide… His death seemed exceedingly   
   convenient for many.”   
      
   Those concerns are likely gripping Maxwell herself, according to a lawyer   
   for some of Epstein’s victims, who predicted that the perv financier would   
   die in jail last year.   
      
   “It may be that she can’t handle the fear of what’s going to happen to her   
   and takes matters into her own hands or there will be people who are very   
   afraid of what she has to say,” said Spencer Kuvin in an interview last   
   week with the Daily Mail. “She knows too much.”   
      
   Epstein’s apparent hanging in his cell on August 10 sparked a storm of   
   controversy.   
      
   Scandalous bungling at the Metropolitan Correction Center in lower   
   Manhattan included guards failing to watch him despite a previous failed   
   suicide try just two weeks beforehand.   
      
   There were also competing autopsy reports, with one suggesting that   
   Epstein did not die by hanging but was the victim of a homicide.   
      
   More than a year after Epstein’s death, it’s still not clear what exactly   
   happened to him in his cell in the hours before he died.   
      
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   The events that preceded the death of Jeffrey Epstein were “a perfect   
   storm of screwups,” said US Attorney General William Barr. They actually   
   began weeks before he was found unresponsive in his cell on the morning of   
   August 10, and date to July 23 at 1:27 a.m. when Epstein was found on the   
   floor of his cell in a fetal position and with bruises around his neck in   
   what authorities said was an attempted suicide.   
      
   His cell mate at the time — a former cop charged in a quadruple homicide —   
   claimed to have saved his life when he alerted prison guards. Nicholas   
   Tartaglione, 51, said through his lawyer that he had become “good friends”   
   with Epstein and denied previous news reports that he had beaten him in   
   their cell.   
      
   Epstein was immediately placed on suicide watch on July 23, and by July 30   
   that watch was moved to “heightened psychological observation” which   
   required that he have a cell mate, and guards monitoring him every 30   
   minutes.   
      
   But on August 9, an unidentified cell mate was removed from Epstein’s cell   
   and transferred to another facility. At 7:49 p.m., Tova Noel, a 31-year-   
   old federal prison guard returned Epstein to his cell after a meeting with   
   one of his attorneys.   
      
   Noel had started work at 4 p.m. and was doing a double shift. She had   
   already worked several overtime shifts at the prison that week, and by 10   
   p.m. she reported that the prisoners in 9-South, a special wing of the   
   facility which housed inmates in protective custody, were locked in their   
   cells for the night.   
      
   Noel was supposed to conduct an inmate count, but surveillance video   
   showed that she and another unidentified guard failed to do so.   
      
   By midnight, Noel was joined by Michael Thomas, 41, another prison guard.   
   During the night, Noel and Thomas surfed the internet and shopped for   
   motorcycles and furniture, court documents say. At one point, both dozed   
   off for two hours, according to surveillance video. They did not check in   
   on Epstein as required, and later reported their negligence to a   
   supervisor.   
      
   At 6:30 on the morning of August 10, the guards discovered Epstein   
   unresponsive in his cell when they went to take him a tray of breakfast.   
   In the minutes before a call was placed to emergency responders, MCC staff   
   tried to revive Epstein, according to the Bureau of Prisons.   
      
   Epstein was taken by ambulance to New York Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan   
   Hospital by members of the FDNY and other emergency responders at about   
   7:30 am. As he lay on a gurney in his orange prison jumpsuit, seemingly   
   lifeless, his pale, ashen face nearly matching the color of his white   
   hair, and surrounded by FDNY, police and EMTs, New York Post photographer   
   William Farrington snapped Epstein from a distance as an EMT used a purple   
   breathing apparatus in an attempt to revive him.  The image shocked the   
   world — showing the most notorious pedophile in modern history in the   
   moments before his death.   
      
   The photo immediately sparked conspiracy theories that Epstein had been   
   felled by the powerful forces that wanted him silenced. An internet meme —   
   “Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself” — exploded on social media and many   
   observers noted that he had died less than a day after a tranche of more   
   than 2,000 documents containing lurid testimony from his sex-abuse victims   
   was unsealed in a case involving Maxwell.   
      
   As soon as the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed his death, the Justice   
   Department announced an investigation by both the FBI and the Inspector   
   General. Barr said he was “appalled” by the turn of events.   
      
   “Mr. Epstein’s death raises serious questions that must be answered,” he   
   said. “In addition to the FBI’s investigation, I have consulted with the   
   Inspector General who is opening an investigation into the circumstances   
   of Mr. Epstein’s death.”   
      
   Within a day of those comments, the MCC prison warden  Lamine N’Diaye was   
   reassigned to a regional office pending the two investigations, and the   
   two federal guards tasked with watching over Epstein were immediately   
   placed on administrative leave.   
      
   In addition to the government probes into his death, Epstein’s brother   
   Mark hired former medical examiner Michael Baden to accompany the autopsy   
   at the city’s Office of the Medical Examiner. Baden had briefly worked as   
   New York’s medical examiner in the late 1970s and led a panel that   
   examined the assassination of President John F. Kennedy years earlier, and   
   was often contracted by the families of victims who suspected foul play in   
   their deaths.   
      
   On August 16, Barbara Sampson, the city’s chief medical officer, said in a   
   brief statement that following “a careful review of all investigative   
   information, including complete autopsy findings,” that Epstein had   
   committed suicide by hanging.   
      
   Months later, on October 30, Baden made his own explosive analysis public.   
   He found that Epstein had suffered a number of injuries, including a   
   broken bone in his neck, that “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings   
   and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation,” he said.   
      
   “I think the evidence points to homicide rather than suicide,” said Baden,   
      
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