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Epstein prison guards strike deal to avoid jail time

2021-05-23 | 🔗
Former federal prosecutor Francey Hakes discusses details regarding Jeffrey Epstein's prison guards striking a plea deal
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Will two corrections officers responsible for watching Jeffrey Epstein, the night of his death are set to avoid jail time. It is part of a plea deal. The guards have admitted to falsifying records, saying they will fully and knowingly lied about. Checking on Epstein in is cells. Critics say the deal was unacceptable. They demand answers. Two years after Epstein was found dead. We have a former prosecutor, France, seen Hague tell us what is normal. What is standard procedure clearly these guards violated. Does this deal normally happen with two guards that dont do their job? Not necessarily I find ironic the world is in an uproar Jeffrey Epstein before he died, got off on a sweetheart deal a non prosecution agreement in the southern district of Florida. At
the? U DOT S attorneys office there. They would not prosecute so long as he pled guilty to very small misdemeanor charges in state court. Here you have guards who were supposed to be watching him going by his cell every thirty minutes to check on him. They are getting a deferred prosecution agreement, which means if they cooperate with the government if it becomes necessary, if they do some community service, they also wont be prosecuted. So I find the sort of book end irony here to be pretty surprising. Will right. That is the prism which I asked you that question everything about Jeffrey Epsteins situation is abnormal, so many people are watching at home. Go did the question: did Jeffrey Epstein kill himself? That is the question everybody wants the answer to. If you have guards not doing their jobs, falsifying records, then getting a plea deal that is abnormal. It leads us to more suspicion and conspiracy s there
a opportunity to with the two guards to dig deeper, investigate further. Did it go higher up the chain it is? Will there is one of the reasons why there is that clause about cooperation there in the deferred prosecution agreement? If the grand jury is active, if there is an investigation going on what people higher than the guards might have done, for example, were the cameras working? What did people say about the cameras? Did people tell the truth to the investigators when they were asking about when Epstein was found exactly how he was found? Did someone take photographs? What are their conclusions about the conduct of the prison itself in the immediate aftermath of Epsteins death? All these things are important. It is just bizarre it has taken this long. We really still have no idea what happened will right. You know. I think I put the wrong prism on this question and this entire segment. It is not abnormal. It is suspicious. Everything is suspicious when something is suspicious
when everything is suspicious, it leads to more conspiracies, maybe warranted in this case, fancy thanks for helping us.
Transcript generated on 2021-08-09.