QUESTIONS ARISE OVER EPSTEIN DEATH

   As a general rule, I'm not one to jump on Conspiracy Theory bandwagons, but as also as one who well recalls the number of suspicious deaths surrounding persons who had come to public attention with information on prominent Deep-State figures, the "apparent suicide" of Jeffrey Epstein today set off a number of alarm bells. During the period between 1989 and 2016, a number of high-profile deaths occurred---all of which followed a particular pattern:

   1. The decedent was involved in investigating, or testifying against, or in a position to incriminate highly-placed persons with the government.

  2. The deaths were almost never due to natural causes, but were ruled suicides, accidents, unsolved homicides,---or, as in the case with Justice Scalia---no autoposy was performed.

  3. These incidents always occurred right before the decedent was about to take some decisive action adverse to the interests of those in powerful positions. 

  4. The MSM downplayed or deflected questions about these deaths even though there were extremely suspicious---or at least anomalous--- circumstances surrounding all of them. For example, the Media gave wall-to-wall coverage recently of a murdered college student, but practically no attention to the murder of Seth Rich. 

  We see the same pattern emerging already in the Epstein Case. Forbes Magazine interviewed Jack Donson, a 23-year veteran of the US Bureau of Prisons who has since retired and written textbooks on prison management. Here is an excerpt from that interview:

    "In a discussion after Epstein's suicide today was reported, Donson told me:  'Once there is an actual attempt and there is fear that this person might harm himself, they are put in a special room under constant supervision, 24 hours, every day.  There is someone assigned to physically watch and take notes of the person, so if they move their head, it's noted.'  During that period, the inmate has almost no access to material things that would harm him and is given a special "suicide blanket" that cannot be twisted into knots or formed into a noose...

   "To move Epstein out of this most restrictive oversight would have required sign-off from both the Chief Psychologist at MDC and the Warden,  Donson said. 'Whenever you are dealing with someone who is very high profile, it is typical that the Warden would even advise those higher in the BOP or Justice Department about their decisions,' he added."

   Epstein was moved off of Suicide Watch before he died. Of course, his first attempt was singularly strange as well, since Donson also noted that: "Within 24 hours of an inmate’s arrival, he/she completes the BP-A0519 Psychology Services Inmate Questionnaire (PSIQ). Upon completion, institution staff (e.g., Receiving and Discharge, Health Services) review the PSIQ and immediately alert Psychology Services if the inmate reports he/she is thinking of harming or killing him-/herself. It would seem Epstein passed that evaluation when he was first taken into custody, or he would have been subjected to the sort of oversight that should have prevented his suicide attempt in late July."

   But, as Donson also noted, the Warden would have to sign off on all of these procedures. Now, Epstein was jailed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City, the Warden of which is one Herman E. Quay III. 

   Around the time of Epstein's first alleged suicide attempt, Quay received a promotion to head three prison districts in Pennsylvania. This itself wouldn't be especially unusual, except that Quay was under fire from both the Trump Administration and prison reform activists surrounding his mismanagement of a severe power outage at MDC last winter. Apparently Quay not only bungled his responsibilities in that case, but lied about it afterwards. Just a week and a half before Epstein's death, Quay became the subject of a Federal lawsuit. 

   This wasn't the first time either that Quay and MDC had been under scrutiny from the Department of Justice. In 2018, former Attorney-General Jeff Sessions indicted and convicted one of Quay's lieutenants, a prison official named Carlos Martinez, for forcible rape of female inmates. 

   Thus we have a Warden who was badly personally compromised and a prison already on the radar screen for mismanagement and technical failures. 

   Yes, it's theoretically possible that Epstein might have been taken off Suicide Watch in good faith; and that he did coincidentally pick a time to kill himself just when all of the surveillance systems had malfunctioned; and that the timing of Quay's favors was just a coincidence. But if were President Trump or Attorney-General Barr, I would very closely at this incident before saying conclusively that it was.

   President Trump in fact has an opportunity here to prove that his Administration is putting a stop to these Deep State tactics. He needs to order a full investigation of Epstein's death and issue a fully transparent report, letting the chips fall where (and on whom) they may.