Accused pedophile and wealthy Manhattan financier Jeffrey Epstein was found injured and in a fetal position inside his cell at a New York City jail, according to sources close to the investigation.
Epstein, who is being held in Metropolitan Correctional Center during his trial for conspiracy and sex trafficking, was found semi-conscious with marks on his neck, two sources told News 4. Investigators are trying to piece together exactly what happened, saying details remain murky.
Two sources tell News 4 that Epstein may have tried to hang himself, while a third source cautioned that the injuries were not serious and questioned if Epstein might be using it as a way to get a transfer.
A fourth source said an assault has not been ruled out, and that another inmate was questioned. The inmate who investigators have talked to in Lower Manhattan facility has been identified as Nicholas Tartaglione, according to two sources. Tartaglione is a former police officer in Westchester County who was arrested in December 2016 and accused of killing four men in an alleged cocaine distribution conspiracy, then burying their bodies in his yard in Otisville in Orange County, according to court records.
Sources told News 4 investigators questioned Tartaglione, and the former cop claimed not to have seen anything and insisted he did not touch Epstein, sources said.
The attorney for Tartaglione denied all the claims that his client attacked the financier, saying his client and Epstein get along well. The attorney added Epstein was seen today and appears to be fine.
"They are in the same unit and doing well," said Bruce Barket, an attorney for Tartaglione. He said any claim that Tartaglione might have assaulted Epstein "is absolutely not true."
Barket said Tartaglione and Epstein have been complaining about conditions inside the MCC including flooding, rodents and bad food.
Epstein is now on suicide watch inside MCC, according to two sources. Attorneys for Epstein did not immediately return calls for comment.
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons did not return calls and spokesmen for the U.S. Marshals and U.S. Attorney's office declined to comment.
Most recently in the sex trafficking case against Epstein, the wealthy financier had been denied bail on July 18 following a bombshell search-warrant revelation that Epstein had a fake passport and piles of cash stashed in his safe.
U.S. District Judge Richard Berman cited risk of flight and danger to the community in his decision against Epstein, a registered sex offender and private-island owner who faces new federal charges of exploiting dozens of underage girls in New York and Florida in the early 2000s. That meant Epstein would remain behind bars pending trial (a date for the start of which has yet to be set).
Inside Epstein's Network, Layer Upon Layer to Protect the Boss Epstein attorneys filed their notice of appeal to the bail ruling on Monday.
Berman said prosecutors established a "preponderance" of evidence of Epstein being a flight risk, calling the fake Saudi passport "concerning, and said the government also established community danger by "clear and convincing evidence" which led to his decision to keep the financier behind bars.
Epstein's lawyers had wanted him released on house arrest with electronic monitoring at his $77 million Manhattan mansion. They said he wouldn't run and was willing to pledge a fortune of at least $559 million as collateral.
Berman described their proposed bail package as "irretrievably inadequate," saying, "I doubt any bail package can overcome his danger to the community."
Prosecutors, meanwhile, had argued evidence against Epstein was growing "stronger by the day" after several more women contacted them in recent days to say he abused them when they were underage.
Berman cited victims' testimony as having an impact on his decision, in addition to Epstein's alleged history of intimidating, threatening and paying off witnesses or other parties involved in the case.
One of the accusers he cited was Courtney Wild, who recently came forward and said Epstein started sexually abusing her when she was 14 in Palm Beach. She told reporters at a news conference in New York Tuesday that Epstein "will never stop sexually abusing children until he is in jail" and urged the judge to deny bail.
Berman also questioned whether Epstein has adhered to the requirements of being a registered sex offender, which he had to do as part of a plea deal with Florida prosecutors more than a decade ago.
Epstein has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and sex trafficking charges brought by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan. Wild's accusations are not part of that indictment. The financier's next court date is set for July 31.
#1: ghostdogtxn To: TommyTheMadArtist (#0)
ghostdogtxn posted on 2019-07-25 11:53:45 Reply Private Reply
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#4: randge To: TommyTheMadArtist (#3)
What's-his-ass was ready to cough up hundreds of millions to be guarded and ankle monitored inside his Manhattan apartments. He wants to stay out of serious institutions where life could get dangerous in the longer run. He must be reckoning that he can buy or talk his way out of a long term federal sentence.
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#6: Ada To: TommyTheMadArtist (#0)
Ada posted on 2019-07-25 14:50:35 Reply Private Reply
#7: randge To: NeoconsNailed (#5)
Little love note passed up from the back of the class.
A gentle squeeze around the throat and a verbal reminder, "When you get ready to sing, make sure you don't mention . . ."
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#8: Lod To: randge (#7)
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#9: TommyTheMadArtist To: Ada (#6)
TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2019-07-25 17:40:43 Reply Private Reply
#10: randge To: Lod (#8)
Pete's been in there, so I guess he knows what he's talking about. This stuff is well outside my wheelhouse.
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#13: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt To: TommyTheMadArtist (#0)
"Someone managed to get a drone up close to the "temple" on pedo island. Remember the original drone footage, where you could see what looked like ladders inside and not much more? someone dared to lose a drone and got it right up to the glass. Just around the corner from that scaffolding you can see in the original drone video there is a stack of mattresses and the top one has blood from end to end. Whatever happened on that bed probably was fatal for someone. ..."
http://82.221.129.208/.wf2.html
It links to the video. Another video shows an ambulance with the initals "LSJ" [Little Saint James?] on it. It also zoomed in to the license plate number.
One commenter said they were breeding babies on the island without Social Security numbers and selling them to the highest bidder.
I sure hope they keep him alive long enough to spill his guts.
And then there was this:
Documents: Jeffrey Epstein Company Received Secret Federal Reserve Bailout Posted by Mrs. Tif Morgan on July 25, 2019.
According to law firm documents, Jeffrey Epstein chaired a $6.7 billion company that may have received a highly irregular and secret Federal Reserve bailout.
Who is Jeffrey Epstein and who was he working for?....
http://12160.info/forum/topics/documents-jeffrey-epstein-company-received- secret-federal-reserve?xg_source=activity
TruNews thinks Ghislaine Maxwell was Epstein's handler and not the other way around. Her father was a Mosad agent and possibly a double or triple agent. I'm waiting to see this tied also to the Vatican and the Rothschilds. According to Eustace Mullins all the intelligence agencies ultimately work for The Bank [Rothschild].
AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt posted on 2019-07-25 20:23:23 Reply Private Reply
#14: BTP Holdings To: randge, Lod (#7)
If Epstein "sings" he would be naming names. Obviously, the people who are above him above him do not want to be exposed. This might be the sponsors of the pedophile island. After all, how many BIG NAMES have been Epstein's guests on a flight out to the island? ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2019-07-25 20:52:54 Reply Private Reply
#15: BTP Holdings To: randge (#12)
It is long past time the Bundy's are exonerated. ;)
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#18: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt To: TommyTheMadArtist (#16)
AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt posted on 2019-07-26 02:03:15 Reply Private Reply
#19: randge To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#18)
I think it was my fifth grade teacher. And I think he was right.
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