Epstein jail guards had been offered plea deal but declined

NY Post ^

[TigerClaws]

Federal prosecutors investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s death in a lower Manhattan lockup offered plea deals to two correctional officers who were guarding the pedophile, but the officers declined the deal, sources familiar with the probe told The Associated Press.

News of any plea deal talks suggests prosecutors are mulling bringing federal charges against officers at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where the multi-millionaire hanged himself in August.

The guards are accused of failing to check on Epstein in his cell every half hour, as they were required to do, and falsifying reports to cover up their failure to do so.

As part of the deal, authorities wanted the correction officers to admit they’d doctored the reports, The AP reported.

After his death, as many as 20 correctional officers were slapped with grand-jury subpoenas, CNN reported at the time.

Among the jailers called were lieutenants who were in charge of the federal lockup the night Epstein killed himself.

The 66-year-old financier’s death has been ruled a suicide by hanging by city officials.

[Old Yeller]

They are fearful of the Clinton goons.

[Old Yeller]

my thoughts are....if they don’t talk how long do they remain alive...this is the type of stuff that eventually someone starts cleaning house of low level participants that might have to much info... it wont be today but 5 years from now will they be alive.

True. Lewinski would have been dead if she hadn’t come forward with Bill’s splatter shot.

[Ann Archy]

Epstein did NOT kill himself!!

[jonrick46]

The National Enquirer says that there are calls for Epstein's body to be exhumed for more forensic examination. Veteran pathologist and former New York coroner, Michael Baden, who was at the initial autopsy, observed that Epstein's hyoid bone had been broken and there was evidence of damage to neck thyroid cartilage--all consistent with strangulation.

[ronnie raygun]

The 66-year-old financier’s death

Bagdadi was a religious scholar

Scumedia at its best

Much like ABC looking for the leaker that brought to light their criminal involvements, the powers that be are looking to nail low hanging fruit as a cover for taking eppy out

[Eagles6]

Wasn’t this Federal lockup?

[Pearls Before Swine]

The article was sketchy on what the plea deal entailed. It said they would admit to not checking on schedule and doctoring the reports to say they had made their rounds instead of sleeping on the shift.

If that’s all there is to the deal, I’d think they should take the deal, for their own sakes, because it provides a closing record that supports the suicide story, or at least doesn’t contradict it. I don’t know what kind of better deal they think they can get.

[Notthereyet]

I believe he was in the Metro Jail. Feds were not granted approval to guard him. That is why Barr was so angry.

[Jim Noble]

We know elites like the klintoons had their grimy hands on this

I doubt it. The Clintons are not nearly sophisticated enough to pull a swap, which is what I think happened.

[itsahoot]

Though I’m just as angry that Lady Justice seems to be taking her time I am willing to trust Barr on this count.

I think Barr almost immediately announced it was a suicide. Trust him at your peril.

[Eagles6]

Thank you.

[riri]

The Clintons, at their prime, were very far down the totem pole of "elite status".

They have been and always were tools of the real power brokers.