‘Heads must roll’: Outrage at how high-security jail could let Jeffrey Epstein die

https://nypost.com/2019/08/10/heads-must-roll-outrage-at-how-high-security-jail-could-let-jeffrey-ep ^ | August 10, 2019 | Larry Celona, Eileen AJ Connelly, Laura Italiano

[MarvinStinson]

Millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died in an apparent suicide while in federal custody in Manhattan early Saturday, a stunning end that both infuriated and baffled his victims, and the federal officials responsible for his safety.

“I was appalled to learn that Jeffrey ­Epstein was found dead early this morning from an apparent suicide while in federal custody,” Barr said in a statement.

“Mr. Epstein’s death raises serious questions that must be answered. 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,” Barr said.

Epstein had inexplicably been taken off suicide watch despite an incident three weeks ago when he was found sprawled on the floor of his cell, nearly unconscious, and with injuries to his neck.

He was being housed in the jail’s high-security Special Housing Unit, in which high-profile or dangerous detainees are kept separate from the general population.

Until recently, the jail had housed Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, who is now at a supermax prison in Colorado.

At MCC, prisoners on suicide watch get checked every 15 minutes.

“Heads must roll,” Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote to Barr in a scathing letter Saturday.

“Every single person in the Justice Department — from your Main Justice headquarters staff all the way to the night-shift jailer — knew that this man was a suicide risk, and that his dark secrets couldn’t be allowed to die with him,” Sasse wrote.

There’s no question Epstein should have been under continual watch, said Cameron Lindsay, a former warden who ran three federal jails and who called the death a “shocking failure.”

“Unequivocally, he should have been on active suicide watch and therefore under direct and constant supervision,” Lindsay said.

“It’s embarrassing,” one federal law-enforcement source told The Post of Epstein.

“This is the highest-profile inmate in that facility, and considering that he may have attempted suicide two weeks ago — how could they let this happen?”

[RAldrich]

Did they ever solve the mystery behind the “apparent suicide” of Kid Twist, who was under NY law enforcement custody, days before he was supposed to testify?

[myerson]

“A guard and a supervisor will probably be fired and then retire to their new mansions in Costa Rica.”

Yep...we’re now just waiting for the patsy to be identified. It is as predictable as night follows day.

[gaijin]

Billy Jack Hayes, wrestler

Haynes was involved in steroids and cocaine, working in wresting and showbiz. An associate of the Clintons approached him to act as muscle to protect drug shimpents into Arkansas.

One night two boys were seen to witness a drug drop by a private plane outside Mena, the boys were caught. Vexed as to how to handle the situation, a call was made to The Boss, Haynes standing nearby close enough to hear the content of the call.

One male voice was remorseful and reluctant, explaining, “We just can’t have witnesses, you know..” Meanwhile the whole time another shrill FEMALE voice was repeatedly and forcefully screaming from the background, “NO WITNESSES..!!”

WHO do you think THAT was? I think you know.

The boys were beaten to death, then laid on the train tracks to be later run over.

Ruled by the coroner as a suspicious death.

Much later it was revealed the CIA had a huge operation at Mena, with heavy rumors of weapons training and drug shipments. All scenes in the Tom Cruise movie “American Made” involving an actor double of Bill Clinton were deleted from the final product.

[FreedomPoster]

More likely they’ll die in a few months from a strange auto crash.

[blackdog]

The degree by which this is worded by news writers is tortured and laden with worry.

Like past events made this such a shocker?????? Whoda thunk?

[Hojczyk]

They have buried it already...

We are investigating...

In three years you may hear something...

The DOJ and FBI are corrupt and have been for forty years

Read “......Police State.... Gerry Spence

[libstripper]

Attempted political coup
Murder of #1 witness
KEEP YOUR GUNS
More important now than ever.
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So true. In view of this every advocate of “common sense gun safety measures” needs to be gently medicated and taken to a comfortable place where he/she is no danger to himself/herself or others.

[blackdog]

The grim reaper had to outsource once the Clintons got their roll going. Just too much wet work for one usher of death.

[MarvinStinson]

DIRTY WESTCHESTER EX-COP IS EPSTEIN’S CELL MATE

August 5, 2019 By Dan Murphy
https://yonkerstimes.com/dirty-westchester-ex-cop-is-epsteins-cell-mate/

The sad story of jailed pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who has been charged by U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York for sex trafficking and faces up to 45 years in prison – a lifetime gig for someone 66 years old – now has another connection to Westchester County. Last month we reported that noted attorney and Westchester resident David Boies had taken the cases of several alleged victims of Epstein.

Recent reports about Epstein’s injuries while an inmate at the Manhattan Correctional Center include one inmate who said he found Epstein lying on the floor with bruises to his neck. That inmate was former Mt. Vernon and Briarcliff Manor cop Nicholas Tartaglione.

To call Tartaglione a disgraced former police officer is an understatement. After leaving the Briarcliff Police Department on a disability pension, and after being suspended for three years after lying about a drunk driving case, Tartaglione was charged in 2016 with killing four men in Orange County, in what was characterized as a drug deal gone bad.

We’ll get to more on Tartaglione and the laundry list of allegations and lawsuits against him while a cop later in this story.

Epstein was found with marks around his neck late last month when his cellmate, Tartaglione, found him and alerted corrections officers. A prison investigation has yet to determine if Epstein attempted suicide or was assaulted, but one law enforcement source believes it was suicide.

“Epstein is on suicide watch. You don’t go on suicide watch if you’ve been assaulted, do you?” asked our source. “You’ve got a guy who is a millionaire who is now living among rats and mold and wants to go home.”

Initially, Tartaglione was identified by the New York City media as someone who may have assaulted Epstein. That claim was loudly denied by Tartaglione’s attorney Bruce Barket, who said that Tartaglione did not harm Epstein, but instead intervened in an attempt to save his life, adding, “In the short time they were together, they became friends.”

Tartaglione’s lengthy and crime-filled career, both while a police officer and after, includes:

In December 2016, Tartaglione was arrested for the murders of four Hispanic men in the Likquid Lounge bar in Chester, owned by Tartaglione’s brother. The day after his arrest, the bodies of the four missing men were found buried on property that Tartaglione had rented in Otisville, Orange County.

Tartaglione was charged with conspiracy to purchase 5 kilograms of cocaine in a drug deal that went bad and ended up with four men dead or missing. Federal prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigations believe that only one of the men killed, Martin Luna, was involved in drug deals with Tartaglione, and the other three men were not involved but were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Tartaglione has pled not guilty to all of the charges, but earlier this year prosecutors said they will seek the death penalty against him, and last month, corrections officers found an illegal cell phone in Tartaglione’s prison cell. He remains in jail until his trial and verdict.

Attorneys for the woman that have accused Epstein of sexually abusing them as underage teenagers commented. “We want him to stay alive to face the justice and accountability which is so long overdue,” said attorney Lisa Bloom. “And it’s coming.”

“We want him to be forced to face a jury and respond to the serious charges that he is facing,” added attorney Gloria Allred. “Justice for victims whose young lives he has impacted is long overdue.”

Epstein was recently denied bail pending his trial, after the FBI found a fake passport and piles of cash and diamonds stashed in the safe at his NYC home. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman cited risk of flight and danger to the community in his decision against Epstein, a registered sex offender and private island owner who faces new federal charges of exploiting dozens of underage girls in New York and Florida in the early 2000s.

Some believe Epstein tried to take his own life after the decision that will force him to remain behind bars until his trial,

Epstein and Tartaglione bunked together in prison for two weeks. Both men are facing life in prison with no chance for parole. The Special Housing Unit wing of the MCC where both were staying has no windows and is infested with rodents, insects and has standing water, according to a complaint about the living conditions in the MCC by Tartaglione.

Tartaglione was in the SHU because corrections officers found a cell phone in his cell. Another disturbing incident reported by Tartaglione’s attorney, who stated in federal court, “About a week ago, (Tartaglione) woke up, got up, looked down at his cot, and apparently he smothered, unbeknownst to him, a rodent that was dead on his cot.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Swergold said at the hearing that MCC staff wondered whether the rat was a Godfather-style warning and had “concerns that it was put there by a cell mate, perhaps as some kind of message.” Tartaglione has complained about conditions at the jail for years since being arrested in 2016. He has pleaded for books to read and batteries for a radio in the SHU, but claims that corrections officers told him to ‘stop complaining or it’s gonna get worse.”

Barket called Tartaglione’s living conditions “borderline torture,” saying he has no way of knowing what time of day it is and can’t concentrate. In addition to Epstein, the MCC recently had another famous inmate – Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

Years ago, this reporter lived in the Village of Briarcliff Manor at the same time Tartaglione was a police officer with Briarcliff Manor P.D. One of the local public access channels featured an odd host of his own show. His name was Clay Tiffany.

Tiffany enjoyed taking the local government to task and suing them for violating his First Amendment rights on a few occasions. Westchester’s dean of reporting, Phil Reisman, wrote about Tiffany in 2015 calling him a “crank” and someone with “a persecution complex.”

While I usually enjoy and appreciate Reisman, I didn’t agree with his characterization of Tiffany, who I believed to be a strange, yes, but honest Briarcliff resident looking out for the public’s good and was, overall, no harm to anyone.

After talking about Tartaglione again and again on his cable access show, Tiffany was beaten almost to death by Tartaglione on the shores of the Hudson River after taking a swim in 1999. While Tartaglione was never charged nor found guilty of a crime, which was the motivation for many of the accusations and charges made against him as a cop in Mt. Vernon and Pawling, Tartaglione settled out of court with Tiffany for $200,000 and the village for $1 million.

Reisman said Tiffany had an “acute sense of victimhood” and that as a result of his successful lawsuits “had bought a winning scratch-off lottery ticket.”

While the U.S. Attorney’s Office investigated and found there was not enough evidence to charge Tartaglione with a civil rights violation, he was suspended from the Briarcliff P.D. for three years and was fired in 2009 – the same year he beat Tiffany to near death. Eventually, Tartaglione sued and was put back on the job, winning more than $300,000 in back pay in 2003, and retired on disability in 2008.

Tartaglione was the target of an FBI civil rights investigation for physically abusing several people, including public access television host Tiffany. The town settled with the now-deceased Tiffany for $1 million.

While 99 percent of our police officers are good men and women living and upholding our laws, Tartaglione was a bad apple who caused a lot of people a lot of harm. Now he claims he helped corrections officers save Epstein. Can anything this guy says be considered the truth?

[Rennes Templar]

Got that right.

[MarvinStinson]

Nicholas Tartaglione

[gaijin]

Broward County prosecutor Beranton Whisenant was looking into procedural weirdness in visas expedited for Haitians coming ito the USA. Plus, he’d been involved in a fraud cased against the DNC. Suddenly he washes up on a Hollywood Florida beach, same district as Debbie Wasserman Shultz. Went swimming in a full suit and dress shoes..? Guess we’ll never hear about the Haiti visa weirdness, RIP.

[exPBRrat]

cough*cough*clintonfoundation*cough*

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Epstein was a threat to the Deep State. He had dirt on Presidents, Prime Ministers, Royalty, Senators, Governors, Hollywood stars, celebrities, famous athletes, business titans, and other deviants.

The investigation ain’t going anywhere.

[xenia]

“and he’s been secluded somewhere safe and sound.”
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I really doubt it. He wasn’t needed anymore....so why would they bother?

[Texas Eagle]

Why do they keep saying “apparent suicide”? They still don’t know?

[gaijin]

Thank you! Some great new nuggets about Tartaglione there, thank you. Fills in some blanks I had. I’ll include some of that next time.

[Texas Eagle]

Who took him off suicide watch? HA! As if they’ll ever answer that.

[wita]

The Justice Dept. IG and the FBI should start tracking down the bank accounts of everyone involved in securing Epstein.

JD, FBI, both swamp dwellers. So no trust warranted. Who’s left to investigate anything that anyone should put their trust in?

[central_va]

Consider the Epstein case closed. Nothing to see here. Move along little sheeple. Move along.