I continue to be puzzled at how most people seem to completely miss, and not discuss, the extremely obvious-to-me literal assisted suicide hypothesis. He made an attempt at suicide, it got blocked, this successfully signified to some very powerful and worried people that Epstein would totally commit suicide if given a chance, they gave him a chance.
I do in fact discuss and conclude assisted suicide in the addendum, just not in the manner you describe. Assisted suicide orchestrated by someone incidentally connected to the case is an unreasonably more complicated and unlikely explanation than that Epstein himself coordinated with guards with direct oversight of the prison. If you propose that someone connected to the Epstein case gave him a chance, then they either have to be the warden or directly or indirectly order prison officials they don’t personally know to turn off cameras. No such orders were disclosed by those guards who were convicted of breaking protocol on their own volition, which is at least a little odd because they could have avoided a prison sentence by doing so. It becomes less odd if your explanation is that they were promised payment by Epstein himself to do it (payment which may or may not have actually been carried out).
I’d consider this quite unlikely. Epstein, weakened and behind bars, was very very far from the most then-powerful person with an interest in Epstein’s death. Could the guards even have turned off the cameras? 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?
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.
I continue to be puzzled at how most people seem to completely miss, and not discuss, the extremely obvious-to-me literal assisted suicide hypothesis. He made an attempt at suicide, it got blocked, this successfully signified to some very powerful and worried people that Epstein would totally commit suicide if given a chance, they gave him a chance.
I do in fact discuss and conclude assisted suicide in the addendum, just not in the manner you describe. Assisted suicide orchestrated by someone incidentally connected to the case is an unreasonably more complicated and unlikely explanation than that Epstein himself coordinated with guards with direct oversight of the prison. If you propose that someone connected to the Epstein case gave him a chance, then they either have to be the warden or directly or indirectly order prison officials they don’t personally know to turn off cameras. No such orders were disclosed by those guards who were convicted of breaking protocol on their own volition, which is at least a little odd because they could have avoided a prison sentence by doing so. It becomes less odd if your explanation is that they were promised payment by Epstein himself to do it (payment which may or may not have actually been carried out).
I’d consider this quite unlikely. Epstein, weakened and behind bars, was very very far from the most then-powerful person with an interest in Epstein’s death. Could the guards even have turned off the cameras? 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?
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.