Jeffrey Epstein: how US media - with one star exception - whitewashed the story

[Kid Berwyn]

31. Without Miami Herald, most mainstream media are AWOL

NOW they start paying attention.

One of the few media organs on the ball:

Everything We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Death

By Chas Danner and Margaret Hartmann
New York magazine, Aug. 12, 2019

Excerpt...

Epstein had been taken off suicide watch, then left alone and under-monitored

Three weeks before his death, on July 23, Epstein had been found semiconscious in his cell with marks on his neck — though it was not clear if he had tried to harm himself or had been attacked. Prison officials investigated the injury as a possible suicide attempt and put Epstein on suicide watch, which would entail placing him in a special cell where he could be constantly monitored by prison personnel and prevented from having access to any means by which he could take his own life. Epstein was also subject to a daily psychiatric evaluation during this time, according to the New York Times.

But Epstein was taken off of suicide watch on July 29 and returned to the MCC’s special housing unit after a psychiatric evaluation determined he was no longer at risk of harming himself. It is not yet clear who made that evaluation and (clearly incorrect) judgment.

In addition, it appears that MCC personnel failed to follow proper procedures following Epstein’s removal from suicide watch, procedures that MCC officials had apparently assured Justice Department personnel they would follow.

The New York Times reported on Sunday that it is standard practice at the facility for inmates who have been on suicide watch to then be housed with other inmates. Epstein was placed in a cell with another inmate at first, but that inmate was later transferred out of the special housing unit, leaving Epstein alone in the cell, which reportedly had a metal door and a small glass window. It is not clear why Epstein was not immediately assigned another cellmate.

In addition, MCC guards are supposed to check on inmates in the special housing unit every 30 minutes, but reportedly failed to do so on Friday night. It is not yet confirmed how that was allowed to happen either.

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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/jeffrey-epstein-dies-by-suicide-report.html

PS: Thanks for giving a damn, underpants.

PPS: Anyone still remember how the investigations into the Octopus — the nexus of the Iran Contra, BCCI, and the S&L scandals — took a different turn after Danny Casolaro was suicided? They fell off the radar PDQ.