The day after he was taken off suicide watch, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein spent at least two hours locked up alone with a young woman, in a private room reserved for inmates and their attorneys, according to an attorney who was visiting the prison that day.
“The optics were startling. Because she was young. And pretty,” said the visiting attorney, who asked that his name not be used because he didn’t want to create friction with the prison administration. He speculated the woman could be a lawyer—NBC News has reported that Epstein paid members of his team to sit with him in a room for eight hours a day for attorney-client meetings, allowing him to avoid his cell.
The visiting attorney went to the Manhattan Correctional Center on July 30, a day after Epstein was reportedly taken off suicide watch and transferred into the Special Housing Unit (SHU). During the hours the visiting attorney was present, it wasn’t Epstein’s main lawyer, Reid Weingarten, or other named attorneys who visited him.
“If I was him, I would have hired… an old bald guy,” said the lawyer, who said the young woman was in there with Epstein for at least two hours when he was there. He also pointed out that the room is locked when prisoners go in, after their handcuffs are removed, and unlocked only when prisoners leave and handcuffs are put back on.
Weingarten and other attorneys representing Epstein have not responded to requests for comment by Forbes.
Epstein’s daily occupation of the room in the SHU was a sore point for attorneys trying to visit their clients. Instead of waiting 15 minutes for a room, the wait could stretch for two hours, as it was that day. “They wouldn’t move anybody until he got where he was going, which is what they used to do with El Chapo, too,” the visiting attorney said. There are 12 attorney visiting rooms at MCC, but only two are for attorneys visiting SHU clients. That means Epstein was monopolizing a scarce resource.
It was unusual because “you meet with your lawyers as needed,” the attorney said. He added that it would be difficult for any other lawyer to monopolize an interview room every day if the lawyer didn’t have eight hours of work to do with a client. And in the visiting attorney’s experience, based on the early stages of Epstein’s case, he definitely wouldn’t need that much time every day with his lawyers. MCC has not returned calls about Epstein’s apparent access to the interview room.
Instead of a “Last Meal”, it looks like he had a “Last Romper Room” session before execution.
So stupid. Right under their noses. Can we trade NY for Greenland? lol
Man, was it that easy to.paymoff the jailers and their bosses? Obviously it was.
It’s now official! Everyone in NYC is corrupt.
The perks of being rich and powerful – hair pie as a last meal.
At this point the only thing about this whole sordid affair that would surprise me is if Epstein actually did commit suicide
I don’t believe it.
Trudeau has been in Canada all month!
I don’t know why I continue to be surprised at things I hear about this case.
Epstein’s last schtupper took place in the meating room?
Prostitutes and attorneys are basically the same, after all. Either will do whatever the client wants for an agreed upon price…
so … it was a case of auto-erotic asphyxiation?
“Cherry Coxsmyth, Esq.,” who apparently graduated from law school at age 17, should have raised some questions as to the nature of the legal consultation. I hope Ms. Coxsmyth wore her legal briefs.
Can this really be true? If it is things are more fubar than imagined.
Ya gotta get in where you fit in.
Wonder what it’s like in hell… being the DEVIL’S be-otch NOW!!! 😲😲😲
In the immortal words of Stompin’ Tom Conners “If you don’t get at it when you get to it, you won’t get to it to get at it again.”
It was consensual sex. Like POTUS and married man Bill Clinton had under his WH desk. Is don’t mean is 😉
I am MUCH more disgusted by the liars claiming ‘the cameras didn’t work’ and ‘no one checked on him in 2 days’ and claiming that he could hang himself without any of the items necessary. WTF.
The authorities responsible here are either total liars or totally incompetent. Either way they suck and should drop dead.