https://www.yahoo.com/news/epsteins-final-days-celebrity-reminiscing-133925874.html
The disgraced financier, jailed in Manhattan on federal sex trafficking charges involving teenage girls, was found unconscious on the floor of his cell one morning in July 2019, a strip of bedsheet tied around his bruised neck.
In the hours and days that followed that suicide attempt, Jeffrey Epstein would claim to be living a “wonderful life,” denying any thoughts of ending it, even as he sat on suicide watch and faced daunting legal troubles.
“I have no interest in killing myself,” Epstein told a jailhouse psychologist, according to Bureau of Prisons documents that have not previously been made public. He was a “coward” and did not like pain, he explained. “I would not do that to myself.”
After a life of manipulation, Epstein created illusions until the very end, deceiving correctional officers, counselors and specially trained inmates assigned to monitor him around the clock, according to the documents — among more than 2,000 pages of Federal Bureau of Prisons records obtained by The New York Times after filing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
The newly obtained records offer no support to the explosion of conspiracy theories that Epstein’s death was not a suicide. They also shed no light on questions raised by his brother and one of his attorneys that he might have been assisted in killing himself. But they do paint a picture of incompetence and sloppiness by some within the Bureau of Prisons, which runs the federal detention center.
An intake screening form erroneously described Epstein as a Black male (he was white), and indicated that he had no prior sex offense convictions, even though he was a registered sex offender with two 2008 convictions in Florida, for solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors to engage in prostitution. A few social phone calls he made were not recorded, logged or monitored, records show, an apparent violation of jail policy.
Two days after the suicide, William Barr, then the U.S. attorney general, said there were “serious irregularities” at the correctional center, but did not elaborate. He later blamed “a perfect storm of screw-ups.”
A 15-page psychological reconstruction of Epstein’s death, compiled by bureau officials five weeks later and never before made public, concluded that his identity “appeared to be based on his wealth, power and association with other high-profile individuals.”
“The lack of significant interpersonal connections, a complete loss of his status in both the community and among associates, and the idea of potentially spending his life in prison,” the post-mortem continued, “were likely factors contributing to Mr. Epstein’s suicide.”
The Times obtained the materials after suing the Bureau of Prisons, which had repeatedly rejected its public-records requests. As part of a settlement, the agency agreed to turn over internal memos and emails, visitor logs, handwritten notes from inmates, and the psychological reconstruction of Epstein’s death. Many of the documents were heavily redacted; some were withheld entirely, including a number of records associated with the earlier suicide attempt.
If convicted, he faced up to 45 years in prison.
On the morning of Tuesday, July 9, Epstein underwent the requested formal, in-person suicide risk evaluation. The psychologist, whose name was redacted from the documents, found Epstein to be polite, cooperative, organized, coherent and even showing a sense of humor.
“Epstein adamantly denied any suicidal ideation, intention or plan,” she wrote in her notes. He requested a phone call, a meeting with his attorney, a shower and to brush his teeth.
Epstein described himself to her as a banker with a “big business” and said that “being alive is fun.” He denied having sexually abused anyone, and said he would have a renewed bail hearing the next week, where he believed he would be released.
“He was future-oriented,” the psychologist wrote.
And the day after that, a psychologist wrote: “He was smirking and said, ‘Why would you ever think I would be suicidal? I am not suicidal and I would never be.’”
In conversations with people from psychological services over the next week, Epstein repeatedly denied having suicidal thoughts. He smiled and cracked jokes. He told them he was Jewish, and suicide was against his religion.
This prompted another suicide risk assessment by a psychologist. Epstein again denied having suicidal thoughts. The psychologist was persuaded, according to the documents, writing that a suicide watch was not warranted.
“He stated he lives for and plans to finish this case and to go back to his normal life,” the psychologist wrote.
Among the documents obtained by the Times was an undated sign, on orange paper, that read, “MANDATORY ROUNDS MUST BE CONDUCTED EVERY 30 MINUTES ON EPSTEIN #76318-054 AS PER GOD!!!!”
That evening, according to the reconstruction, a unit manager at the detention center helped Epstein make a “social” phone call. The manager dialed for Epstein and let him speak for 15 minutes. The call was not properly logged and does not appear to have been recorded. It is not clear from the documents whether the call was on a monitored line.
“I asked inmate Epstein who he was calling,” the unit manager wrote. “He stated his mother.”
Epstein’s mother died in 2004. The call was to his 30-year-old girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak, whom he helped put through dental school, said three people with knowledge of the phone conversation. Epstein, they said, gave no indication during the call that he planned to kill himself.
The call that night, however, was not included in the phone logs provided to the Times by the Bureau of Prisons. The logs show only one social call during his stay — more than a week earlier, on July 30, to Shuliak.
About two months after Epstein’s death, an inmate who appears to have worked in the kitchen emailed the psychology department about a conversation he had with a man whose cell had been next to Epstein’s.
He said the other inmate had told him: “Jeffrey Epstein definitely killed himself. Any conspiracy theories to the contrary are ridiculous.” The man had heard Epstein “tearing up his sheet before committing suicide,” the kitchen worker wrote.
“He wanted to kill himself and seized the opportunity when it was available,” he added. “Such is life — or death, in this case.”
All lies are a derivative of truth. When the truth has been compromised, so has reality.
Epstein was adamant that he had no intentions on killing himself. Epstein was also a compulsive liar.
The NYT had to sue the BOP to get the above cited withheld materials that were a matter of public record. Those materials were also "heavily redacted."
None of Epstein's phone calls (with the exception of one) were ever recorded. All jail phone calls are recorded.
The AG stated the suicide was the result of a "perfect storm of screw ups." In other words, the "perfect storm" was a series of random coincidences.
Once conspiracy theories began to surface, an inmate writes a letter confirming that Epstein really did kill himself and that the "conspiracy theories to the contrary are ridiculous." Inmates are opportunists who notoriously make deals with the system for leniency or favors. Again, an ironic coincidence that once conspiracy theories about Epstein's death became woven into the public narrative (2 months later), the inmate in the next cell tells another inmate who then writes a letter to staff stating that Epstein "definitely killed himself."
Ultimately, it doesn't matter if Epstein killed himself or not. He was a scumbag and everybody knew it. What matters is that nobody believes the mainstream narrative surrounding anything about Epstein. Most people (or most people who have an educated opinion on the matter) believe that Epstein was a Mossad operative running a blackmail scheme on elites. In fact, that's the reason most people are interested in Epstein to begin with. Otherwise, nobody would give a shit about Jeffrey Epstein in the first place.
Epstein knew from the beginning that when the gig was up, he had to go down with ship. By his hand, or another's is irrelevant. He lived the life of fame of fortune that he desperately craved for 66 years, and ultimately preserved his wealth. I suspect he went out "smirking."
Consequently, this begs a couple of questions: Who took Epstein's position? And what will become of Ghislaine Maxwell?
