Epstein, weakened and behind bars, was very very far from the most then-powerful person with an interest in Epstein’s death.
Presumably when you propose assisted suicide, you mean assistance via disabling the cameras, preventing the ordinary checkups from happening, or moving him to a single person cell against regulation. Just because someone is labeled Powerful! in the laminated monkey hierarchy doesn’t mean they can do any of those things. The people most able to turn off cameras deliberately inside a particular jail without getting caught after a follow-up investigation (as they haven’t in the Epstein case) are its correctional officers and warden, not the AG or President or something, definitely not some high status billionaire outside the bureau of prisons chain of command. Those latter Powerful! people have the unenviable position of having to visit the MCC to make eventual-subordinates they don’t personally know commit crimes in a way that violates traditional chain of command and then shut up about it. And in this particular case, since those subordinates were in fact convicted, your explanation fails to explain why they didn’t tell the prosecutor they were ordered not to check on Epstein even as they were being handed criminal charges for it. You don’t even get Mitchell Porter’s excuse that they were scared, because correctional officers understand how prisons work and know the order was just to turn off a camera, not to kill him.
Consider the added difficulties in successfully bribing somebody from inside a prison cell that you’re never getting out of—what’d he give them, crypto keys? Why wouldn’t they just take the money and fail to deliver?
Why wouldn’t Epstein just promise the stupidest correctional officer at hand money upon completion of task and then fail to deliver? Epstein just needed to tell the guards that he was a very rich man, oh yes, and his lawyer would pay them a year down the line after the deed was done, and then not follow through. Some people are actually that dumb, correctional officers don’t get paid a whole lot of money, and it’s not unreasonable at that level of intelligence to think, this guy is gonna get life imprisonment, who am I to refuse 100,000$ in cash to let him take his own life? If he stiffs me, whatever, he’s a degenerate anyways.
In my scenario, the guards have no incentive to reveal the plot to investigators and put themselves in for more crimes, and the conspiracy is limited only to perhaps just one or two people, which helps explain why it’s still officially unsolved. Your scenario doesn’t explain any of these details, and requires us to postulate a fictionally powerful G-man both connected to the Epstein case and whom can turn off cameras in specific cell blocks or change inmate housing conditions in arbitrary prisons without the FBI getting wind of it later.
See: don’t take the organizational chart literally. Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Göring#Trial_and_death
Presumably when you propose assisted suicide, you mean assistance via disabling the cameras, preventing the ordinary checkups from happening, or moving him to a single person cell against regulation. Just because someone is labeled Powerful! in the laminated monkey hierarchy doesn’t mean they can do any of those things. The people most able to turn off cameras deliberately inside a particular jail without getting caught after a follow-up investigation (as they haven’t in the Epstein case) are its correctional officers and warden, not the AG or President or something, definitely not some high status billionaire outside the bureau of prisons chain of command. Those latter Powerful! people have the unenviable position of having to visit the MCC to make eventual-subordinates they don’t personally know commit crimes in a way that violates traditional chain of command and then shut up about it. And in this particular case, since those subordinates were in fact convicted, your explanation fails to explain why they didn’t tell the prosecutor they were ordered not to check on Epstein even as they were being handed criminal charges for it. You don’t even get Mitchell Porter’s excuse that they were scared, because correctional officers understand how prisons work and know the order was just to turn off a camera, not to kill him.
Why wouldn’t Epstein just promise the stupidest correctional officer at hand money upon completion of task and then fail to deliver? Epstein just needed to tell the guards that he was a very rich man, oh yes, and his lawyer would pay them a year down the line after the deed was done, and then not follow through. Some people are actually that dumb, correctional officers don’t get paid a whole lot of money, and it’s not unreasonable at that level of intelligence to think, this guy is gonna get life imprisonment, who am I to refuse 100,000$ in cash to let him take his own life? If he stiffs me, whatever, he’s a degenerate anyways.
In my scenario, the guards have no incentive to reveal the plot to investigators and put themselves in for more crimes, and the conspiracy is limited only to perhaps just one or two people, which helps explain why it’s still officially unsolved. Your scenario doesn’t explain any of these details, and requires us to postulate a fictionally powerful G-man both connected to the Epstein case and whom can turn off cameras in specific cell blocks or change inmate housing conditions in arbitrary prisons without the FBI getting wind of it later.