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To: ' 
Subject: FW: MCC Interviews - Update 
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:29:48 +0000 
I confirmed this with 
There are at least 7 officers (not counting = 
and 
and 2 supervisors that should have been aware that Epstein 
did not have a cellmate on Friday, but did not reassign him one. We reached out to 3 of those officers yesterday, but they 
refused to meet with us without their union rep. 
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Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 11:23 AM 
To: 
Cc: 
Subject: RE: MCC Interviews - Update 
Can we confirm that one of the co's who would not meet with FBI without union rep was the co who did not assign a new 
cellmate to JE when the old cellmate was moved out? 
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Sent: Monday, August 12, 2019 8:49 PM 
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Subject: MCC Interviews - Update 
This afternoon, OIG, FBI, and the USAO-SDNY conducted voluntary interviews with the following MCC employees. The 
interviews were each about 2 hours. A high-level summary of each is below. 
Interview of M. 
M.= is an operations lieutenant at MCC, and is responsible for overseeing the operations of the prison during 
his duty shifts. 
On the morning of August 10, 2019, M. = 
arrived at 5:30 a.m. to relieve the outgoing lieutenant, 
At 6:33 a.m., M. = 
heard a radio call for medical staff at the SHU. I.= 
responded to the SHU, where he saw 
Officer = 
who said that Epstein had hung himself. 
. = 
went into Epstein's cell, and Epstein was on the 
ground, on top of two mattresses, and Officer 
was performing CPR. M. 
then started CPR until 
medical staff came. 
M.= asked Officer =where Epstein's cellmate was, and she said he left, and that he didn't have one 
overnight. M.= told Officer = 
that she knew Epstein was supposed to have a cellmate, and Officer
stuttered, then said she didn't know. 
Officer = 
admitted to I.= 
that they did not conduct the 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. counts; and Officer 
said 
"we messed up" and "we didn't do the counts" and "it's not her fault." E. =was not aware the cameras were 
not working in SHU. 
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