Posted on 08/14/2019 3:04:12 AM PDT by bitt
Jeffrey Epstein was concerned for his life after an incident in the jail in late July that sources at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York said was an attempted suicide, said Criminal Defense Attorney David Schoen, who had visited Epstein on Aug. 1, at the facility.
Schoen had been speaking to Epstein weeks prior and deliberating whether or not to take on the federal sex trafficking case authorities had brought against the billionaire. He was being held without bail for child sex trafficking, as well as conspiracy charges. Epstein pleaded not guilty. He faced up to 45 years in prison if convicted and the mystery surrounding his death deepened with his alleged suicide Saturday. Epstein has been connected by friendship, as well as through his lavish parties, to some of the most powerful people in the world.
Schoen said, he was just days away from officially representing Epstein when he learned of his death.
The meeting on Aug. 1, which Schoen said lasted five hours, was detailed and long. Schoen said Jeffrey Epstein did not appear to be suicidal and instead, seemed relieved that Schoen would be joining his legal team as they worked on his defense. The meeting was interrupted at one point by the jail psychologist came to visit Epstein, who appeared open to speak to her. This would be the last time Schoen spoke to Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein, who was 66 years old, was found dead Saturday at the Manhattan detention facility. The medical examiner believes Epstein’s cause of death is suicide by hanging, according to reports. However, the medical examiner is waiting for additional information from law enforcement before making the findings public, reports state.
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I hadn’t heard that. I’m surprised. Those pics really did not look like Epstein.
I agree.
If that is the case why did his attorney’s insist the he be removed from suicide watch?
I think Epstein was concerned about being murdered - now about killing himself.
Oh yeah?!?! Then how come it’s reported that his lawyers asked that he NOT be put under suicide watch. How come it’s reported that his Lawyers have now hired criminal Defense lawyers. The crap emanating out of all of this leaves one to believe we are no better than Russia when it comes to assassinations.
Read the story.
Misleading headline, manipulative, dishonest details mixed with recycled facts from other stories..
Story says Schoen was “deliberating whether or not” to take on Epstein’s case. Or join Epstein’s legal team. Or some such.
The story does NOT quote him expressing fear for his life.
It just says he wouldn’t talk about the July incident.
IOW, the story is argle-bargle bs.
The attorney needs clients. Epstein was not his client.
Reporter needs a byline.
I hate it when reporters do this.
The only pedophile crime in history in which the lead pedophile Epstein is the only one charged even though there seem to be hundreds of underage victims. Apparently, the authorities choose to ignore all of the first person victim testimony, witness testimony including photographic evidence. Yet everyday Johns getting happy endings from a middle-aged female in a Florida massage parlor are charged and publicly smeared for life.
-—including photographic evidence——
What photographic evidence?
Citation please
No evidence in my possession, just what ever the state and federal authorities have from various raids including recently in Manhattan. Then there are the still photos of Giuffre at cocktail parties in London with Epstein, Maxwell, Prince Andrew et al. Surely, every nice American teenager jets privately across the Atlantic and gets to hob nob with the glitterati.
The truth is, so far as real evidence, there is none.
We do not know what Epstein had in his various vaults but absent video or lots of photos, there is no evidence fit for court.
Although I very much wish there was evidence to indict Bubba et al, names on a flight manifest don’t carry any real weight
How likely is it that someone could buy off your own scum sucking lawyer?
All they would have to do is pay the scum sucking lawyer ONE dollar more than you are paying them.
Ditto.
He’s not dead Jim.
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