As the millions of pages of documents flow out of the US Department of Justice (DoJ) I, and my students, have gone through many of them looking for answers to one of the key mysteries in the Epstein scandal: Was he killed or was it, as the government claims, a suicide? The documents below and more about the investigation at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1kU-e0YXGLhM-V_3vRa6PQ

The Flip

On July 29, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein had been in the hell-hole of the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) for twenty-four, eventful days. He had been, allegedly, attacked by an ex-cop, who would be convicted of four murders, one with a plastic tie around his victim’s neck. Epstein had sent days in the harsh conditions of the ‘Suicide Watch’ unit of the MCC. He had spent up to 12 hours a day in the prison’s office for lawyer-client meeting rooms surviving on vending machine food. On that day, we now know, his lawyers began discussions – very general ones – with the district attorneys about a possible deal. In other words, Epstein was signalling his potential willingness to get out of jail by naming more powerful people engaged in criminal activities.

Okay…

Who are those people and what were their crimes?

We don’t know from the documents released yet – I attach them below. The – Jeffrey Epstein Significant Case notification (dated August 15, 2019) that is five days after his body was discovered – only mentions that the defense lawyers discussed in “very general terms” the idea of a deal for Epstein’s release.

However, it does give a very powerful motivation for homicide. If you were a powerful person with ties to Epstein, the best way of guaranteeing his silence is, murder.

The Silence

We now have a selection of Epstein’s emails. You can find them at: https://jmail.world/.

The key point is that his inbox goes almost silent after July 6, 2019 (his arrest). There are a couple from an ex-girlfriend Cecile Steen, some junk mail-outs, but little else. If this is the genuine state of his inbox (more of that later), it shows a man who had plenty of chums before his arrest but afterwards, almost everyone he knows cutting off communication.

This silence could lead someone to thoughts of self-harm: “I was popular, now I am nobody’s man…” But it also shows the way his previous friends regarded him as someone to be avoided or, potentially, silenced permanently.

What Does it Take?

The standards of incompetence in the Epstein case gives a lie to any Law and Order TV program about the abilities of the FBI or DoJ investigators. In the CrimeWaves episodes, I have already been through much of their sheer ineptitude: the destroyed evidence, the disturbed crime scene, the non-disclosure of the wounds on Epstein’s body in the official autopsy report, the broken camera system, the destruction of the video of the July 23rd attack/suicide attempt, etc. HOWEVER, there is one more mistake that has gotten the Internet abuzz with conspiracy chatter: the Southern District of New York Attorney’s Office released a statement about Jeffrey Epstein’s death, with the date before he actually died.

For the record, I do not think the District Attorneys of the Southern District planned the murder of their famous prisoner. But I do think it is a good example of how utterly incompetent many of the government officials were in this case.

They are Still Holding the Important Details Back

There is so much that we, the public, still do not know about the Epstein Case. I will let people who know more American politics point out how many famous people and powerful politicians have already been shown to be lying about their relationships with Jeffrey Epstein (step forward – Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump’s Secretary of Commerce and Bill Gates, the man hugely influential in the American public health response to Covid, among many other things).

Jon Stewart is brilliant! – More at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snyOVC_Gj_A

However, there are millions of pages of documents still to be released. What is in those documents that needs to be held back? What details of Epstein’s final days may emerge?

Even the much examined video footage of the correctional officer’s unit is largely useless. It is not the “raw” unprocessed video but a compilation of a number of different files. Any “missing minutes” or flashes of orange jumpsuits going up the stairs at 10.40 p.m. on the night of his death are still conjecture as the video files that were put together are not complete.

Stay tuned. There is more to come.

The New York Post’s excellent review of the issues with the new video discoveries near Epstein’s cell. More at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryb_8k1pad0