Posted on 08/17/2019 3:25:31 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Personnel at the New York City prison where accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide last week have not been initially cooperative with investigators from the Department of Justice, a federal source told Fox News Friday.
Attorney General William Barr sent two senior DOJ officials to personally visit the Metropolitan Correctional Center and speak with staff from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in order to gather information on Epstein’s death after Barr said officials uncovered “serious irregularities” at the jail, a senior DOJ official told Fox News. The officials have been on site since Thursday and the FBI and the Justice Department’s inspector general are investigating conditions at the MCC.
BOP officials from various regional offices have also been sent to the Manhattan facility to lend their expertise and insight. In addition, a separate BOP “After Action Team” went to MCC earlier this week in an effort to examine what happened the night Epstein died. The use of the “After Action Team” is part of BOP protocol whenever a “significant event takes place at a prison. […]
Fox News has also learned that 20 of 21 prison staff posts were filled between the hours of 4 p.m. and 12 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 9, the day before Epstein was found. Of those prison workers, six of them were working voluntary overtime. Between 12 a.m. and 8 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10, 18 of 19 staff posts were filled. Of those 18 staffers, 10 were working overtime and all but one of those were doing so voluntarily. …
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Oh, only Trump can ever commit obstruction. And sometimes Barr, when he seems to favor his boss.
Dr. Noh.
Oh, noes! Overtime! O, the huge manatee! Poor babies only get about 20 federal holidays a year along with limitless sick days and 6 weeks of vacation.
Yup.
Close the prison. Transfer all the guards to USP Terre Haute.
No he was an advisor hired privately by Epstein side.
you must remember that the many bureaucracies of the US government have been steadily hiring either employees with a liberal bent or those who care less and accept anything. We have reached the point where any appointed Republican head of any department will face resistance, slow-walking and sometimes outright sabotage of any conservative directives. They have also become hugely over-populated and the numbers must be reduced. A freeze on hiring will help. But once Republicans take control of the House and maintain the other two branches, some unnecessary departments need to be abolished. We can all name some. I would start with Education, a Jimmy Carter brainstorm.
Since the beginning of the Department of Education the quality of education has steadily fallen - it’s a a quantified fact, a matter of record. Education is properly a function of the individual states, local districts.
It is imperative to win back the house and any conservative who fails to vote because of one issue or another should be flushed down the toilet!!!
Here we are, a week later, and
Epstein’s stompyfoot lawyers are hissing their intention to look at the videos, “if any exist, as they should.”
Here’s my question:
Why didn’t those fools SUBPOENA the videos IMMEDIATELY, the moment JE’s death was announced?
Why haven’t they demanded photos of the death scene?
Why haven’t they subpoenaed & deposed the first responders who ostensibly tried to revive him?
Why is everyone playing footsy with EVIDENCE?
(every last bit of which has been destroyed by now.)
Oh Noh!
This is so in-your-face: Yeah, we obviously murdered Epstein, so what. Soon it’ll be forgotten, and then what difference will it make then?
“They have also become hugely over-populated and the numbers must be reduced.”
The first personal computers began appearing in US companies about 1980. Over the next 30 years a technological revolution in information processing occurred which allowed corporations to dramatically increase the productivity of administrative and management positions. Corporations shed non-manufacturing employees as they grew.
Government at all levels (federal, state and local) continued to grow bureaucracies even as computers made their way into government offices. Not only did government not realize the productivity savings, many governments hired outside “consultants” at high salaries to further pad bloated staffs and perform jobs the inept government bureaucrats could not accomplish.
The federal government needs to go through a dramatic downsizing. First step is to dramatically reduce its mission by returning functions it has coopted from the states to state and local government. Second, the headcount of remaining departments should be dramatically downsized (15-20%) as the department heads are charged with doing fewer things well instead of many things poorly.
And the law, frustrated from above and below, seeks to “prove” its good faith by being weaponized against the Middle Class. And making up for its frustrations by over-zealousness against the one group of people who don’t deserve it, the Middle Class: the existence, trust, and functioning of which, is what differentiates successful nations from failed states.
I've been drinking off the govt tit for a long while and I while I'll be the first to agree that time off (Vacation and holidays) are about as good as you are going to get; you have exaggerated holidays and vacation time.
There are 10 Federal holidays; though you might get an extra one for Christmas, e.g. If Christmas is on Thursday, the President usually gives Friday.
Sick leave is 104 hours per year and it does not expire. Some people do use it as "vacation time," but if caught the repercussions can be pretty bad. For older people this is a really good benefit. I know of one guy who had a stroke, had three months rehab and came back to work with sick leave still on the books.
Vacation time is based on time in Federal service. For the first three years of employment, you accrued 13 days per year. From three years to 15 years, you accrue 19.5 days per year. From 15 years to retirement, you accrued 26 days per year. You can only carry over 30 days per year to the next year.
Two words: Grand Jury.
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