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Allison discusses a bombshell exclusive from the Miami Herald that government employees tasked with investigating the death of Jeffrey Epstein were reported to the FBI for shredding massive amounts of documents at the prison within a week of Epstein's death.
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MSW Media. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Breakdown. I'm Allison Gill. You might know me as Mueller. She wrote on social media. We have a massive revelation today from the Epstein files. According to a memo written by a corrections officer at the prison where Jeffrey Epstein was found dead. A corrections officer, not an inmate. And a memo written by a corrections officer says that Bureau of Prisons investigators shredded bales of documents like tons, bags full of documents, unusually high amounts of documents within days of finding Jeffrey Epstein dead. This is according to an exclusive report by Julie K. Brown and Claire Healy at the Miami Herald. And I'm going to cover this series of events on today's episode of the Breakdown. So if there weren't already a million really weird coincidences surrounding the death. The death of Jeffrey Epstein, if there weren't a mountain of odd coincidences, this story that I'm about to share with you would still raise glaring alarm bells just on its own. But like, when you, when you, when you include it in a totality of weird shit that's gone on in the death of Jeffrey Epstein, it's just. It's bonkers. I mean, first the FBI, first. They didn't show up to the scene for hours after the death. And the crime scene had been obliterated, the body had been moved. The strip that he apparently hung himself with was gone. The hyoid bone was broken. He had petechial hemorrhaging. Those are two signs that you've been strangled, more likely than hanged. Two guards that were there that night were indicted for falsifying their inmate counts to sell check logs. Some very specific cameras weren't working. Very specific cameras. The Department of Justice released some of the video, but. And said this is unedited. But then they edited it, they cut parts of it out we still haven't seen. The Wall Street Journal reported that an inmate told the FBI he heard one of the correctional officers talking about covering up Epstein's death. We got to cover this up. That's the same guard, by the way, who Falsified the logs. And the same guard who received thousands in Zelle payments, including one for $5,000 in the days leading up to Epstein's death, like 10 days before. And those two guards, the office of the Inspector General didn't interview them until two years later, till after Biden was in office. And then the case against them, the charges against them, were quietly dropped. So the Epstein DOJ never even interviewed those guards and did an investigation, I guess. And two years later, their memories were like, we don't remember anything. And the charges against them were dropped. So all of that. And now we have this exclusive reporting from the Miami Herald that a corrections officer told the FBI that the Bureau of Prisons employees were shredding bags and bags of documents. And it wasn't just any old Bureau of Prison employees. These were members of what's called an After Action Team, and they were directly tasked with investigating Epstein's death. These are the investigators that were shredding piles and piles of documents. And that's according to a call to the FBI, plus more. I'll talk about that in a second. It seemed odd to the corrections officer that investigators would be shredding piles and piles of documents. So that corrections officer called the FBI. And according to the Miami Herald, the agent said to the FBI agent said, well, hey, maybe go get him out of the dumpster. Maybe there's still time to get him out of the dumpster. But it had. It was too late. The trash had already been picked up. Something else the Herald mentions in this exclusive report is how odd it was that the office of the Inspector General at DOJ took over the investigation. DOJ easily had a reason to investigate fully. There was certainly a predicate to open an investigation, given the fact that Epstein's cellmate, a guy named Nick Tartaglioni, had allegedly, according to Epstein, assaulted Epstein just a few weeks prior to his death in his cell. I think it was 18 days, according to the Herald, before he was found dead. That's reason enough to say this is fishy and we should treat this as a Department of justice investigation instead of just Bill Barr coming in saying it's a suicide. The Bureau of Prison's After Action Team coming in, shredding a bunch of documents. FBI not even getting there until hours later, and they're saying it's a suicide. So they don't treat it like a crime scene. Yeah. The Miami Herald shared these parts of these newly released documents memorializing the interview between the concerned corrections Officer and the FBI. As you can see here, it says from August 16th at 6:28pm, just six days after Epstein's death, the FBI 302 says. And A302 is a document that memorializes a formal interview with the FBI. It says, quote, blank is a federal corrections officer reporting misconduct. He works in MCC, New York Metropolitan Correctional Center, 150 Park Row, New York, NY, 10007. Federal Bureau of Prisons. Blank has never seen this amount of bags of shredded documents coming out to be put in the dumpster at the rear gate of the mcc. Last week, Epstein hung himself. And there is an ongoing investigation. There was a BOP After Actions team that came and they are supposed to review what happened. There was an inmate named Blank, and he is a Blank worker. Blank. Another inmate who works back there who helped Blank is named Blank from the same unit. So there's two redacted inmates here who helped with the shredding. He helped Blank throw the bags of shredded documents into the dumpster. Blank was bringing back bags of shredded papers, around four or five bags, and the caller brought them into the gate to throw into the dumpster. Now, Blank told the caller that the After Action Team is shredding huge amounts of paperwork. The next day, a corrections officer, the Miami Herald notes, is. It's unclear whether it was the same corrections officer, by the way, but the next day, a corrections officer emailed the Office of Inspector General to report the shredding and said there's an abnormal amount of trash bags at the back gate. Miami Herald says later that day, at about 7:30pm an assistant federal prosecutor requested permission to interview the inmate who was identified as dumping the material. In the email, the prosecutor notes, we are also investigating any efforts following Epstein's death to obstruct justice by destroying relevant records at mcc. In particular, we learn today that all institutional count slips prior to August 10, 2019, which were requested on August 12, 2019, are apparently missing. And the file show that the correctional officers on duty that night, the ones that were eventually charged with falsifying the documents, said that they didn't know anything about those missing slips or a missing Epstein file. Now, eight days after that, the corrections officer who emailed the FBI was interviewed. His name is Michael Kierans. The Miami Herald says, quote, according to the report, Kieran said that about 10:30am on August 15, Lopez, that's an inmate, approached the post at the rear gate at MCC with approximately three bags of shredded paper. Kierans recalled that Lopez said, they're shredding everything back there. But when the inmate, Stephen Lopez, was interviewed, he shut down Said he didn't know anything about it. They didn't even ask him any open ended questions about what happened. They just asked him yes or no questions. And according to the report, there may have been a prison lieutenant present during that questioning. That's kind of intimidating. And according to the Herald, his interview Wasn't transcribed until 4 months after it happened. The report ended with the statement Lopez had no other information relating to Epstein or the tip. And informed that he is just trying to stay out of trouble and keep his head down and do his work. Lopez informed that he enjoyed the position he has and doesn't want to screw it up in any way. That's pretty convenient using an inmate. You've given a nice job and it would be a shame to lose it, to shred your documents and throw them in the garbage. And according to the Bureau of Prison's closing memo, Officer Kierans had a history of filing unfounded complaints. Okay, seems like a lot of work to shut down a lot of inquiries and discredit a lot of people. But I suppose if you make sure you don't find anything suspicious, you can get away with failing to treat the cell as a crime scene. But wait, there's more here from the Miami Herald. Quote, a corrections officer wrote an anonymous letter to a federal judge sometime later. The date stamp on the envelope is illegible, but it appears to have been sent after the FBI interviewed Kierans and Lopez. The writer implies the government is covering up the destruction of records. I do not feel comfortable reporting this to the OIG because OIG knows about this and may be covering it all up. That's what the writer said. I want to just sort of interject something here. That OIG is Michael Horowitz at the Department of Justice. That's Michael Horowitz. When Trump came in in his second term and fired all of the inspectors general, he didn't fire two of them. There were two that he kept on. One was a guy named Cufari, who was the guy who sort of oversaw the accidental but on purpose deletion of the Secret Service text mess during January 6th. That Kufari guy, he's been investigated several times, but he got to keep his inspector general job when Trump first got into office. And so did Michael Horowitz, the inspector General at the Department of Justice. So something to keep in mind when this guy, when this corrections officer feels that he doesn't want to report things to the Office of the Inspector General. So instead he wrote a letter to a federal judge because he thinks the inspector general is part of the COVID up. That's interesting. And one of two inspectors general that Donald Trump kept. Both could have helped cover up crimes he committed. I don't know. I think that's really interesting. So you can read this entire report from Julie K. Brown and Claire Healy, incredible reporters at the Miami Herald. I've dropped the link in the show notes below to this article. This video will also be up later@muellershe wrote.com thanks for watching and thanks to the Midas Touch Network for carrying this show. I'm Allison Gill and I'll see you next week on the Breakdown. Sam.
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