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SWORN STATEMENT
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OF
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OIG CASE #:
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2019-010614
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JULY 12, 2021
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28632 Roadside Drive, Suite 285
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Phone: (818) 431-5800
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WITNESS:
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MR.
: The recorder is on. My
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name is
with the U.S.
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Department of Justice Office of the Inspector
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General New York Field Office and these are my
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credentials. All right. This interview with
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federal Bureau of Prisons lieutenant
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is being conducted as part
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of an official U.S. Department of Justice
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Office of the Inspector General investigation.
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Today's date is July 12, 2021, and the time is
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1:06 p.m. This interview is being conducted at
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the federal correctional institution Danbury,
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located in Danbury, Connecticut. This is the
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training center. What is it the -?
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MR.
: SIPE Center.
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MR.
: SIPE Center?
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MR.
: Yeah.
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MR.
: What does it stand for do
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you know?
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MR.
: Mm....
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MR.
: SPI - whatever. It's the
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training center.
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MR.
: SIPE. Yeah.
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MR.
: Yeah. It's the training
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center right outside of the FCI Danbury on the
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FCI Danbury property. Also present is DOJ OIG
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Special Agent
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will be recorded by me, SSA
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Could everyone please identify themselves for
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the record and spell your last name. To start,
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again I am DOJ OIG Senior Special Agent
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MR.
: I am Special Agent
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MR.
: I am Lieutenant
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MR.
: Thank you sir. This is
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an official DOJ OIG investigation to the death
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of inmate Jeffrey Epstein and the surrounding
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circumstances, and you're being asked to
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voluntarily provide answers to our questions.
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Will you agree to a voluntary interview with
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the DOJ OIG?
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MR.
: Yes.
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MR.
: Thank you sir. This is a
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form that we have for our voluntary interviews.
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We give this to everybody that's voluntary just
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so you know that it is voluntary. You know you
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can stop the interview any time. You don't
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have to answer our questions. You can leave.
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I'm going to read it to you for the record.
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It's United States Department of Justice Office
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of the Inspector General Warnings and
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Assurances to Employee Requested to Provide
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Information on a Voluntary Basis. You are
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being asked to provide information as part of
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an investigation being conducted by the Office
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of the Inspector General. This investigation
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is being conducted pursuant to the Inspector
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General Act as amended. This investigation
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pertains to job performance failure and
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security failure. This is a voluntary
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interview. Accordingly, you do not have to
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answer questions. No disciplinary action will
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be taken against you if you choose not to
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answer questions. Any statement you furnish
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may be used as evidence in any future criminal
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proceedings or agency disciplinary proceedings
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or both. Then there's the waiver which says I
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understand the Warnings and Assurances stated
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above and I am willing to make a statement and
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answer questions. No promises or threats have
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been made to me and no pressure or coercion of
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any kind has been used against me. And there's
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the - right here - employee signature and
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employee's name. You want to read that
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yourself. Feel free to. If you agree just
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sign
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MR.
: So it says job performance
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failure and security failure according to-.
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MR.
: That's for everybody.
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We're giving that - that's just the blanket
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statement we're providing to every single
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person that we interview.
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MR. -:
.mm
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MR.
: It doesn't necessarily
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mean that you've done anything wrong. It's
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just that's what the investigation is looking
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into. You know security failure of the
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institution - job performance failure. Because
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someone died in this matter. And looking into
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the surrounding circumstances with it.
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Everybody's being provided that same -
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MR.
: Okay.
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MR.
: -- that same information.
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Okay. So I just singed my name as the Special
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Agent. And I'm printing my name. Again this
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is
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MR.
: This is Special Agent
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I am signing as a witness.
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MR.
: Okay. And Special Agent
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, if you don't mind, just place the date
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and time. Again it is July 12, 2021, and the
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time is 1:10 p.m. now. And the place is FCI
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Danbury Training Center. Thank you, sir.
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Okay. Did you understand that form?
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MR.
: Yeah.
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MR.
: Okay. Cool. Is there
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any other questions you want to ask about that
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though?
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MR.
: no.
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MR.
: No?
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MR.
: I mean it's voluntary is that
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right?
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MR.
: Yeah. Exactly.
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Voluntary. You don't have to answer. And
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again that job performance failure - security
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failure that's something we're telling
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everybody that that's the purpose of our
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interviews is to figure out -
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MR.
: Okay.
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MR.
: -- what went wrong and
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all that kind of stuff with regard to this
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matter. Before starting the interview, I'd
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like to place you under oath. Lieutenant
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can you please raise your right hand.
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Do you swear to tell the truth and nothing but
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the truth during this interview?
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MR.
: Yes.
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MR.
: Thank you sir. All
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right. Please just let me know if you don't
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understand these questions and I'll try to
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rephrase them or put them in a different way
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add clarification. So what is your home
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address?
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MR. -:
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MR.
: And what is your date of
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birth?
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MR. -:
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MR.
: And your Social Security
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number?
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MR.
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MR.
: Thank you. And your
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current cell phone number.
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MR.
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MR.
: And what's your highest
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level of education?
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MR.
: Um bachelors.
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MR.
: Where?
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MR.
: Criminal justice.
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MR.
: Criminal justice. Where
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did you get that from?
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MR.
: John Jay.
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MR.
:
Is that in New York City?
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MR.
:
Yeah.
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MR.
: And when did you
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graduate?
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MR.
: 2006, I think.
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MR.
: Okay. And what did you
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do prior to working for the BOP?
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MR.
:
Uh TSA.
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MR.
:
Um okay. And what did
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you do for TSA?
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MR.
: I was a screener at JFK.
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MR.
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How long did you do that?
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MR.
: Mm six and a half years.
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MR.
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From approximately when
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until when?
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MR.
: '02 to '09.
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MR.
: '02 to '09. Okay. And
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do you have any military service?
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MR.
: No.
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MR.
: Okay. And how long have
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you served with the Federal Bureau of Prisons?
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MR.
: Mm like about 20 years.
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MR.
: Twenty years.
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MR.
:
Yeah.
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MR.
: Oh, okay. So you did it
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while you were with TSA?
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MR.
: I did TSA is federal. And I
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MR.
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No-no-no. With the BOP.
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How long have you served with the BOP?
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MR.
: The BOP?
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MR.
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Sorry.
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MR.
: Twelve years.
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MR.
: Twelve years. Okay.
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From when until when.
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MR.
: '09 to present.
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MR.
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What was your Enter on
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Duty Date?
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MR.
Mm June 21st I think uh 2009/
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MR.
: Okay. Any breaks of
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service?
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MR.
: Nah.
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MR.
: Okay. And when did you
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do you know when you graduated BOP training?
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MR.
: Mm I think it's September or
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August.
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: Of ;09?
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MR.
: You're talking about GLYNCO,
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right?
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MR.
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Yeah.
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Yeah '09.
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MR.
: '09. Okay. And when and
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where was your first office assignment with the
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BOP?
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MR.
: New York.
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MR.
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Uh which institution?
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MR.
: MCC.
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Were you with MCC the
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whole time?
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MR.
: Yeah.
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MR.
: Oh, okay. And when did
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you become a lieutenant?
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MR.
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What's this '21 - 2019, 118
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I think December 17th I did a temp.
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MR.
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December of 2017?
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MR.
'17. Yeah.
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MR.
: And when did you leave
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the MCC?
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MR.
: I left December '19.
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MR.
:
December of 2019?
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MR.
:
Yeah.
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: And then is that when you
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came here to the FCI Danbury?
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MR.
:
Yeah.
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MR.
: And um did you come here
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for a promotion?
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MR.
:
Yeah.
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MR.
:
So were you a GS9
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lieutenant?
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MR.
: I was a 9 there but I got TDY
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down there. So I was 11 also there.
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MR.
: Oh you were?
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MR.
:
Yeah. I got TDY for about
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four months.
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MR.
: Okay. Can you just -
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what does that mean?
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MR.
: Temporary Duty. Like I
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was picked up. I got my promotion, but I had
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to stay down there for a few months until I
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came up here.
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MR.
: Okay. So FCI Danbury.
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You were promoted to an 11 but they had you
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stay down there as an 11 for four months?
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MR.
: Yeah.
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MR.
:
So when were you actually
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picked up?
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MR.
: About three months. In
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October, September, October, November, three
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months. Yeah.
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MR.
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So when did you actually
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get your promotion?
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MR.
Mm September.
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MR.
: Of 2019?
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MR.
: Yeah.
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MR.
: And when did you
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physically come to the FCI Danbury?
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December.
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MR.
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December. Okay. And
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your current position is still GS11 lieutenant?
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MR.
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Yeah.
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MR.
: And what was your
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position at the MCC on August 9th and 10th of
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2019?
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MR.
:
Uh August you said 10th?
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MR.
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Yeah. So August - you
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said September you got your 11 so I'm assuming
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in August of 2019 you were
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MR.
: I was a 9 then.
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MR.
: -- a 9 lieutenant.
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MR.
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Yeah. In August yeah.
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MR.
: And this is just for my
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own knowledge. What is the difference between
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a 9 lieutenant and an 11 lieutenant?
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MR.
: Pretty much you could -
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if you at 9 you can't run the institution.
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Because it's not a higher rank. So like 11 or
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the only ones who can without a captain.
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You're the highest. But a 9 you can't be the
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highest.
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: So does that mean like as
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far as like being the ops lieutenant versus the
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activities' lieutenant?
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: Nah. You could be ops as a
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9.
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MR.
: Okay.
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MR.
: But - but -.
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MR.
: So like acting captain
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you mean?
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MR.
: No. Say like if it's a 9,
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it's like evening watch. Four to twelve or
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midnight. The 11 is the highest authority.
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MR.
: Okay.
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MR.
: As a 9 you can't do that.
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You have to have 11 or above for 9 to be in
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authority.
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: Okay.
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MR.
: Yeah.
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MR.
: So you can be an ops
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lieutenant but somebody else has to be there
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that's higher than you?
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MR.
: Yeah. If you a 9 yeah.
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MR.
: Okay. Do you recall what
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shift you worked on August 9th and 10th of
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2019?
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MR.
: August 9th? What day was
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that?
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MR.
: It's August 9th - sorry.
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We'll just talk about August 9th. August 9th,
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2019 that was the day before Epstein was found
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dead. It was a Friday.
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MR.
: So the Friday. I probably
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was day watch.
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MR.
: Okay. I'm going to give
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you the daily roster from that date just do you
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can reprint it.
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MR.
: Yeah.
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MR.
: Um anytime I give you a
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document - you don't have to do it right away -
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but you can - I'm just going to have you
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initial and date each document. It's just for
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the record we can say that's the document you
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looked at. And we don't like replace
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something. You know what I mean?
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MR.
: Mm-hm.
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MR.
: Um so on that can you
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find your name and see where it is that you
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worked just to verify?
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MR.
: Yeah. I did overtime from
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6:00 to 2:00.
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MR.
: From 6:00 a.m. to 2:00
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p.m.?
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MR.
: Yeah.
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MR.
: And that was on August
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9th?
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MR.
: Yeah.
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MR.
: Do you know if you -
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there were the specific times that you worked?
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I know for instance the individual that was the
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activities' lieutenant after you. She didn't
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start until 4:00 p.m. because she had her
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regular time shift until 4:00 p.m.
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MR.
: Mm-hm.
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MR.
: Would that mean that you
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had worked until 4:00? Or would you still have
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stopped at 2:00?
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: Uh I don't know.
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: Do you usually have to
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wait until the new activities' lieutenant comes
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on board?
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Mm that's
was -. But
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she wasn't a lieutenant here though.
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: No. She was an SIS, but
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she got I guess temporarily promoted. At least
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for that day to be able to be the activities'
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lieutenant. But she was in attorney conference
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until 4:00 p.m. And she didn't start as the
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activities' lieutenant until 4:00 p.m.
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: I don't remember. But I know
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we usually - even though it says 8:00 to 4:00,
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we usually do 6:00 to 2:00, 2:00 to 10:00
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anyway.
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MR.
: Yeah.
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MR.
: We relieve people early.
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MR.
: Right. And my
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understanding is it's for traffic purposes.
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MR.
: So if the 9th I would have
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came on then. She wouldn't have to stay until
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4:00. I don't know.
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MR.
: How does that typically
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work though I guess. Would it be - do you have
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to be relieved before you can leave?
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Mm you mean for me?
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MR.
: Yeah. Like if you're the
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activities' lieutenant at the MCC back in
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August of 2019. Are you allowed to leave
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before the new activities' lieutenant takes
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over? Or do you have to wait until she's done?
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I'm just trying to help refresh your memory if
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you can -.
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: I'm not sure. I know how we
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do it is someone day I got you. I'll cover
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you. Then we relieved.
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MR.
: But you don't
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specifically remember this date?
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MR.
: No.
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MR.
: Not the fact that like
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Epstein died the day after. Does that help you
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like kind of refresh your memory of what your
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involvement may have been?
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MR.
: I know I was doing day watch.
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I was doing day watch. I do know that. But as
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far as who relieved and all that. No. I don't
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remember that.
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MR.
: All right. We can
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probably just grab your time and attendance
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records then later just to try to
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(Indiscernible * *00:12:34) that down. But you
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just can't remember at this point?
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MR.
: What you asked me was I
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there?
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MR.
: Yeah-yeah-yeah. Just I
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mean from the 2:00 to 4:00. You don't remember
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if you would have - you had to wait until
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was actually in place before you left or
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not.
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MR.
Nah. I don't know. I could
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have been there at 4:00 because I left at 2:00.
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I'm not sure.
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MR.
: Okay. Fair enough.
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MR.
: Yeah.
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MR.
: So you either worked
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until 2:00 p.m. or 4:00 p.m. you just don't
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recall.
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MR.
: Yeah.
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MR.
: All right. And who did
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you - on that date - who would have you
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primarily worked with?
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MR.
: Mm
I don't know. Because
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Friday -. I don't know why I'm doing overtime
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on Friday. I'm trying to think. And
is
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normally not the ops lieutenant though either.
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: Is that because he was a
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9?
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MR.
is 11. He's SHU
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lieutenant.
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MR.
: At that time
was the
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SHU lieutenant.
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MR.
: Oh no-no-no
was the SHU
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lieutenant. Okay. So if I'm on Friday and
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Saturday, then -.
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MR.
: Well here if -.
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MR.
: Maybe. I don't know. You
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have my what's her name records?
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MR.
: This is Saturday. So I'm
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giving you the daily assignment roster.
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MR.
: I'm thinking this is my day
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off. I'm thinking Friday was my day off. So I
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came in for the overtime on Friday. If I'm on
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Friday and Saturday, then I would be ops.
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That's what I'm thinking.
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MR.
: Did you work on Saturday?
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MR.
: Saturday I was off.
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MR.
: Okay. So you're not on
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that list that I just gave you for Saturday?
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MR.
: No. I should be on day
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watch.
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MR.
: Okay.
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MR.
: This the day Epstein died
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right?
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MR.
: Yes.
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MR.
: Yeah. I wasn't there that
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day.
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MR.
: Okay. But you just can't
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remember if you worked until 2:00 p.m. or 4:00
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p.m. on August 9th.
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MR.
: No.
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MR.
: Again there's no reason
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that I'm asking you this specifically right
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now. It's just to try to make sure we know
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what time you worked there.
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MR.
: Well you trying to see if
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there's a pattern of -.
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MR.
: no-no-no. Not a pattern.
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It's not looking at you. It's just to - you
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know when we talk to people, we say like what
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time were you there from. Just because in
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knowing that
didn't start until -
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because there's no reason for us at this point
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to get your time and attendance records.
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Because again we're just talking to everybody
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that was there on each day.
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MR.
: Mm-hm.
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MR.
: I'm just trying to -.
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When we talk to you, we just need to lock down
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each person. What time were you there until?
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MR.
: I don't know.
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MR.
: We have specific questions
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about what happened during the day. But if
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you're not there during the day during that
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specific time -.
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MR.
: Some questions might not
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apply to you.
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MR.
: Apply to you. That's what
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we're trying to figure out. So what time were
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you there until.
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MR.
: I mean so you want to ask me
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questions up until 4:00 is what you're saying?
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MR.
: We'll ask you
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specifically questions -.
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MR.
: Well you can do it but if I
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don' remember I just say I don't remember.
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MR.
: Yeah. That's fine. You
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just don't. but at this point you just don't
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know if you were there until 4:00.
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MR.
: No.
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MR.
: Um and you don't remember
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relieving
. Or
relieving you.
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MR.
: no.
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MR.
: And do you remember being
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relieved by anyone?
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MR.
: no.
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MR.
: No? All right. But I
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guess then that goes back to my original
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question. Do you need to be relieved by
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someone in order to leave?
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MR.
: Um normally. It depends.
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MR.
: Can there be just an ops
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lieutenant and no activities' lieutenant on
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during the day?
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MR.
: Yeah. That could be any day.
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MR.
: Okay.
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MR.
: Yeah.
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MR.
: So it's just - there's
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no-. these are genuine questions. We don't
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know the answers to these. So that's not like
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abnormal to have like just like a two-hour gap
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where there's no activities' lieutenant?
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MR.
: No. We was going a lot of
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work up until this. We were doing a lot of
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work. So some days you'll be there. I'm quite
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sure looking at the records, you'll see my name
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by itself.
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MR.
:
Right.
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MR.
: So.
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MR.
: On some days there was
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just like one activity or one ops lieutenant?
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There was nobody -?
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MR.
: Yeah.
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MR.
: Okay. And that was
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Monday through Friday? Not just on weekends?
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MR.
: Any day.
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MR.
: Or night shifts? Or
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morning?
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MR.
: Any days. It was a busy time
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back then.
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MR.
:
Yes. Um. Okay. Do you
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know at that time who was your supervisor?
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MR.
:
Uh the captain. Captain
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MR.
: Okay. And as the
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activities' lieutenant, and you said it was day
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watch?
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MR.
:
Yeah.
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MR.
:
What were your duties and
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responsibilities?
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MR.
: Rounds um orderly
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institution. Running the institution.
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MR.
: And what does a round
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consist of as a lieutenant?
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MR.
: Going up to the unit.
5
Speaking to the officer. If you want, go to
6
unit team. Do the tiers. See what's going on.
7
MR.
: Now at that time, did
8
lieutenant -? When you say go do tiers. Were
9
Lieutenants responsible for conducting rounds
10
of inmates as well? Like you know walking up
11
and down the tiers to make sure?
12
MR.
: Something like that. I mean
13
that's - are we - the lieutenants responsible
14
for that?
15
MR.
: Yeah. I know that that's
16
the CO's primary responsibility. But when you
17
are conducting a round in like a unit,
18
specifically we'll talk about the SHU. If you
19
visit the SHU, and on this date, there was no
20
SHU lieutenant. Correct?
21
MR.
: No.
22
MR.
: So if you were visiting
23
the SHU, are you responsible to conduct any
24
rounds of the tiers as a lieutenant?
25
MR.
: Yeah. The lieutenant has to
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make a round in SHU each shift.
2
MR.
: So when I say - but when
3
you visit the SHU, is it just visiting the SHU?
4
Checking in with the officers? Or do you - I
5
mean - checking in with the COs or is it
6
actually also doing a round of - where the
7
inmates are located and looking in their cells?
8
MR.
: I mean yeah, you're supposed
9
to do a round.
10
MR.
: Okay. So that -.
11
MR.
: You mean exactly what do you
12
supposed to specifically do?
13
MR.
: Yeah. I guess what I'm
14
asking is what does a lieutenant round in the
15
SHU consist of?
16
MR.
: I don't know. I know for me,
17
I used to like to go down the tiers.
18
MR.
: To actually check on the
19
inmates.
20
MR.
: Yeah.
21
MR.
: So you're actually doing
22
-?
23
MR.
: Do a whole complete round.
24
MR.
: So you're actually doing
25
a round of the inmates not just doing a round
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in the SHU to say hey are you guys good with
2
the officers.
3
MR.
: Yeah. Unless something
4
happens. Like if something happens you know.
5
They just say you all right - it was a BA. All
6
right. I'll be back or something like that.
7
But.
8
MR.
: Right-right. You mean if
9
you got called out or something like that - you
10
needed the run.
11
MR.
: That or they call you.
12
MR.
: Right.
13
MR.
: Something specific to a
14
specific tale or -.
15
MR.
: Yeah-yeah. But were you
16
responsible - and this is just in general not
17
just specifically you? It's any lieutenant.
18
If there's no SHU lieutenant responsible to do
19
a round on day watch of the inmates when they
20
visit the SHU.
21
MR.
: I'm not sure.
22
MR.
: You're not sure. But you
23
did.
24
MR.
: That day?
25
MR.
: No I mean just in
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general. Like when you would visit the SHU you
2
would do that?
3
MR.
: Yeah. Say like if I fill in
4
or whatever. And there's no SHU lieutenant to
5
say hey you got to make a round. All right.
6
Or you have activities do it or whatever.
7
MR.
: So ops lieutenant tells
8
you to do the round?
9
MR.
: Anyone could say hey I'm
10
going up there or hey I got the round or
11
whatever.
12
MR.
: Does a lieutenant have to
13
do a round on that shift?
14
MR.
: That would be yeah you have
15
to do a round.
16
MR.
: Okay. So at least one
17
lieutenant on day watch on August 9, 2019, had
18
to do a round in the SHU of the inmates?
19
MR.
: On day watch?
20
MR.
: Yeah.
21
MR.
: Uh yeah.
22
MR.
: What about night watch
23
and morning watch? Do they have to do it on
24
those?
25
MR.
: Night watch and morning watch
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yeah.
2
MR.
:
So every shift a
3
lieutenant has to -.
4
MR.
: Three shifts you got to do a
5
round.
6
MR.
: And that -?
7
MR.
: Supposed to do a round.
8
MR.
: And that's with the
9
inmates not just checking in?
10
MR.
: I'm not sure.
11
MR.
: Oh you're not sure. But
12
you would? When you did it?
13
MR.
: I'm on (Indiscernible *
14
*00:19:51). I'm trying to move around.
15
like to hit the tiers.
16
MR.
: Okay. Cool. Do you remember
17
who you replaced on that day?
18
MR.
: Who I relieved?
19
MR.
:
Yeah.
20
MR.
: Who I relieved?
21
MR.
:
Who relieved -?
22
MR.
: Nobody.
23
MR.
:
So because there's no
24
activities' lieutenant prior to you?
25
MR.
: No.
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1
MR.
: And that's because yeah
2
there's only - for the morning watch is there
3
only an ops lieutenant?
4
MR.
: Yep.
5
MR.
: So you were the first one
6
in on that day? And you said you arrived when?
7
MR.
: Um 6:00.
8
MR.
: 6:00 a.m. Okay. And you
9
said you just don't recall who replaced you or
10
if you stayed until 4:00. Correct?
11
MR.
: Yeah. Did you look at the
12
video?
13
MR.
: We didn't - haven't had a
14
reason to yet. I just assumed you would have
15
remembered.
16
MR.
: No. I don't remember.
17
MR.
: Okay.
18
MR.
: It was '19.
19
MR.
: Yeah-yeah-yeah. No just
20
because of the - you know this was probably one
21
of the biggest things that's ever happened.
22
MR.
: Yeah but that's why I'm like
23
why are they asking about it now? That's why
24
I'm like -.
25
MR.
: Yeah. I mean now is just
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because there's things that have happened in
2
the past month that now is creating a --
3
MR.
: Oh with the case.
4
MR.
: Yeah. That we now have
5
to interview a ton of people to be able to find
6
out who was there, what happened, and all that
7
kind of stuff.
8
MR.
: Yeah. But I'm not sure about
9
the time on that.
10
MR.
: All right. And are you
11
familiar with Jeffrey Epstein?
12
MR.
: Yeah.
13
MR.
: Did you ever work or
14
visit the SHU while Epstein was assigned to the
15
SHU in July and August 2019?
16
MR.
: Probably yeah.
17
MR.
: Did Epstein have a
18
cellmate when he was in the SHU?
19
MR.
: Up until that day, right?
20
MR.
: Yes. And do you know if
21
there was a reason why Epstein was assigned a
22
cellmate?
23
MR.
: In SHU you're supposed to be
24
double bunked.
25
MR.
: Okay. So -.
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1
MR.
: Even if you don't have the
2
whole prior thing before.
3
MR.
: So everybody in the SHU
4
is supposed to be?
5
MR.
: Not everybody. But you got
6
certain cases. But he was supposed to have a
7
bunk.
8
MR.
: So as far as who would -
9
who wouldn't be assigned a cellmate?
10
MR.
: House alone, rec alone
11
inmates. You know hunger strike inmates,
12
NPOs...
13
MR.
: But Epstein was one of
14
those inmates that should have had a cellmate?
15
MR.
: Yeah. He was a regular
16
inmate. Yeah.
17
MR.
: Okay. Um are you aware
18
that Epstein had attempted to commit suicide on
19
July 23, 2019?
20
MR.
: Yeah.
21
MR.
: And were you one of the
22
responding officers to that?
23
MR.
: No.
24
MR.
: Were you - did you have
25
any involvement with it?
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MR.
: That incident? No.
2
MR.
:
No. Do you know what
3
transpired?
4
MR.
: They say he put something
5
around his neck. In his cell. And that was
6
it.
7
MR.
:
Did you ever hear any
8
rumors that his cell mate may have tried to
9
harm him?
10
MR.
: Oh yeah. You're talking
11
about um
Yeah. I heard about that. Yeah.
12
MR.
:
What did you hear about
13
that?
14
MR.
: That it was a ploy for him to
15
get bail. Something like that.
16
MR.
: All right. So did you -?
17
Is your understanding that he actually did try
18
to harm himself? Or was it your understanding
19
that his cell mate tried to harm him?
20
MR.
:
You're talking about the
21
rumor?
22
MR.
:
Yeah. What is your
23
understanding of --
24
MR.
: The rumor was the guy --
25
MR.
: -- what actually -?
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MR.
: -- also had a high-profile
2
case.
3
MR.
: Okay.
4
MR.
: And I think Epstein was up
5
for a bail hearing. So they made it look like
6
he was doing that in order to get bail.
7
MR.
: Okay.
8
MR.
: Yeah.
9
MR.
: Do you think there was
10
any legitimacy to the rumor?
11
MR.
: I don't know. Not after
12
this. Nah.
13
MR.
: No.
14
MR.
: No.
15
MR.
: All right. So do you
16
believe that he did actually try to harm
17
himself on July 23rd?
18
MR.
: Yeah.
19
MR.
: Okay. Um do you know as
20
a result of July 23rd if Epstein - if anything
21
happened with Epstein? Was he removed from the
22
SHU and placed anywhere else?
23
MR.
: Mm. He went to suicide
24
watch.
25
MR.
: Okay. And what happens
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on suicide watch? Is that outside of the SHU?
2
MR.
: Yeah.
3
MR.
: And then after you get
4
placed on suicide watch. Is that a temporary
5
thing and then you get moved over to psych
6
observation?
7
MR.
: Not all the time. No.
8
That's up to psych. Psych makes that call.
9
MR.
: Do you - are you aware if
10
Epstein was outside of the SHU and on suicide
11
watch or psych observation for approximately
12
one week?
13
MR.
: I know he was definitely on
14
there. Because I remember seeing him.
15
MR.
: You saw him there?
16
MR.
: Yeah.
17
MR.
: Um is that because you
18
were doing rounds? Or why did you see him
19
there?
20
MR.
: I had to - because I'm the
21
one who does the showers.
22
MR.
: Okay.
23
MR.
: For suicide inmates. Or
24
psych watch if you're down there. So he was
25
down there one day - probably a couple days.
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But I know I took him to the shower one time.
2
Yeah.
3
MR.
: Okay. So you had some
4
interaction with him.
5
MR.
: Yeah.
6
MR.
: While he was on suicide
7
watch.
8
MR.
: Suicide watch. Yeah.
9
MR.
: Okay. And I just thought
10
- I thought you were only on suicide watch for
11
like 24 hours. And then after that it was
12
called psych observation. Is that not your
13
understanding?
14
MR.
: It's up to psych.
15
MR.
: Okay.
16
MR.
: That's a psych call.
17
MR.
: But is it in the same -
18
they're in the same location. Correct?
19
MR.
: Yeah but people who are on
20
suicide watch longer than 24 hours.
21
MR.
: Okay.
22
MR.
: Yeah.
23
MR.
: So your understanding the
24
whole time he was there it was called suicide
25
watch?
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MR.
: I don't remember.
2
MR.
: Okay.
3
MR.
: The whole time he was there.
4
MR.
: Um do you know when he
5
was removed from suicide watch?
6
MR.
: No.
7
MR.
: Do you know why he was
8
removed from suicide watch?
9
MR.
: He would be moved because
10
psych said it's okay.
11
MR.
: Okay. And when someone
12
is on suicide watch, what does it entail?
13
MR.
: You have a suicide smock.
14
Suicide mattress. And a suicide blanket. And
15
you allow pretty much no items unless they
16
approved it, there's a book they have.
17
MR.
: Okay. And what's the
18
difference? What is the difference between
19
psych observation? What does that entail?
20
MR.
: You got the clothes.
21
MR.
: All right. So when
22
you're on suicide watch, you don't have
23
clothes?
24
MR.
: Naked.
25
MR.
: You're naked the whole
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time? And you know if Epstein was naked that
2
whole time?
3
MR.
: He had a smock and a -.
4
Yeah. He didn't have no clothes.
5
MR.
: He didn't have clothes
6
when he was on suicide watch?
7
MR.
: You can't have clothes on
8
suicide watch.
9
MR.
: Okay. All right. So
10
does it sound right that he would have been
11
removed about a week later around July 30th.
12
Does that sound like a date --
13
MR.
: I don't know.
14
MR.
: -- or you're not sure?
15
MR.
Mm-hm I don't know.
16
MR.
: Okay. Did you ever
17
receive any instructions from anyone with
18
regard to Epstein being assigned a cellmate
19
after he came back from suicide watch?
20
MR.
: I'm not sure.
21
MR.
: You don't remember any
22
verbal conversations or anything like that?
23
MR.
: No.
24
MR.
: All right. I'm going to
25
show you an email. And then you can tell me if
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you remember receiving it. An email from a
2
Do you know who that is?
3
MR.
: Yeah.
4
MR.
: All right. It's to
5
Suicide Watch / Psych Observation Update. And
6
that's also what the subject is. And it's from
7
July 30, 2019. It says, "Inmate Epstein" and
8
it gives his reg number. "Is being taken off
9
of psych observation and needs to be housed
10
with an appropriate cellmate." Do you recall
11
receiving -?
12
MR.
: Yeah. It's a generic. We
13
always get those.
14
MR.
: You get those?
15
MR.
: Yeah.
16
MR.
: There's names on the
17
back. It shows that you were one of them and
18
that you read it. Do you see your name? Yeah.
19
It would be under J. So. It's all
20
alphabetical.
21
MR.
: It's under what?
22
MR.
: It would be your first
23
MR.
: Oh, okay. Yeah.
24
MR.
: So does that ring a bell?
25
Do you remember getting that?
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MR.
: Yeah.
2
MR.
: Okay. Cool. And then do
3
you recall -? So you are aware that he needed
4
a cellmate then. Correct? You already said
5
that you knew he needed one because he was a
6
regular inmate. Right?
7
MR.
: Yeah. But I don't know what
8
this is at 12:30 the 30th right?
9
MR.
: Yeah 7:30 - so yeah.
10
MR.
: Oh it was 7:30 July 30th?
11
So he got off on July 30th?
12
MR.
: Correct.
13
MR.
: Okay.
14
MR.
: Placed back in the SHU
15
and required a cellmate.
16
MR.
: Okay.
17
MR.
: And just before we
18
forget. Do you mind just initialing and dating
19
each one of these documents just so that they
20
don't start piling up? And as well as that
21
email. Thank you, sir. Now do you remember
22
having any conversations with anyone else like
23
verbal. Like
or anybody regarding the
24
need for him to have a cellmate?
25
MR.
: No.
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MR.
: Because, I'm assuming, he
2
was the most high-profile if not one of the
3
most high-profile inmates at the time.
4
Correct?
5
MR.
: Yeah.
6
MR.
: So would that be
7
something that they would - people would
8
usually communicate with the activities and the
9
ops lieutenant about?
10
MR.
: I mean if you got the email.
11
MR.
: Okay.
12
MR.
: Yeah.
13
MR.
: You got a follow-up that
14
you wanted to ask something?
15
MR.
: We'll finish up on this.
16
Because it's going back one.
17
MR.
: No-no. Please. Go
18
ahead.
19
MR.
: So you mentioned that you had
20
interacted with Epstein when he was on suicide
21
watch. You took him for his showers.
22
MR.
: Yeah.
23
MR.
: How was the interactions with
24
him?
25
MR.
: You know, cuff up, take him
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to the shower.
2
MR.
: Did you ever talk to him?
3
MR.
: Yeah.
4
MR.
: Was he pleasant? Were there
5
any issues with that?
6
MR.
: He was saying hey, while I'm
7
down here, pretty much he asked why he was down
8
here. I said well, he was like yeah, I'm not
9
suicidal, such-and-such. And you know let me
10
talk to psych so I could get off this. I don't
11
think he liked it.
12
MR.
: This was immediately after
13
the July 23rd?
14
MR.
: I don't know exactly what day
15
it was. But you know it was around there.
16
MR.
: Got it.
17
MR.
: We're going to follow-up
18
with some of those more lines of questioning
19
later on in the interview. Um so you don't
20
recall though receiving specific instructions
21
from Captain
or anyone else with regard
22
to Epstein? You just - you do know he needed
23
one and you did get the email?
24
MR.
: These come all the time. Any
25
inmate comes off of watch, they send it out.
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MR.
: And should everyone know
2
if someone comes off of watch that they are
3
required to have a cellmate?
4
MR.
: I'm not sure. I mean that's
5
what they do. They come out. Anyone comes off
6
suicide watch, you put them in with a cellmate.
7
MR.
: Yeah. And that's pretty
8
general, common knowledge. Correct? And where
9
do you learn that? Is that from your daily
10
operations? Or do you learn that in training
11
as well?
12
MR.
: I don't know. I guess it's
13
daily operations.
14
MR.
: Okay. But most people
15
should know that a person coming off of suicide
16
watch is required to have a cellmate.
17
MR.
: Uh I mean it depends. I
18
don't know. I know we get these emails though.
19
They send them out any time an inmate comes
20
off. You try to put them with a cellmate. But
21
then again like I said in the SHU, it's you
22
know. Because even if they come off suicide
23
watch, they don't -. Say like they come off
24
they stay in SHU for a year. They have to have
25
a cellmate for a year. You understand what I'm
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saying? So as far as the notice we get, but do
2
everyone know that? I'm not sure about that.
3
MR.
: But you knew.
4
MR.
: Yeah.
5
MR.
: How did you know though?
6
MR.
: I got the email.
7
MR.
: Okay. So, your knowledge
8
is from the email, but earlier, you said that
9
anybody in the SHU, anyway, needs to a cell
10
mate?
11
MR.
: Yeah.
12
MR.
: All right. So, he had
13
basically two requirements to him. One, there
14
was the email that he received; also, the fact
15
that he was in the SHU, and he didn't have any
16
of those special requirements, like, he was
17
going to harm someone else, or something like
18
that, that he should have had a cellmate?
19
MR.
: Right.
20
MR.
: All right. And do you
21
know if you ever communicated that to anybody,
22
when you visited the SHU in July or August of
23
2019?
24
MR.
Hmm. I'm not sure.
25
MR.
: Like, the people that
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worked in the SHU, would have you would have
2
been as the activities' lieutenant, if you're
3
doing a round in there. Is that something that
4
you would address?
5
MR.
: Bring up? Yeah. If I - yeah
6
- but if he had a - one - if he had a cellmate,
7
though.
8
MR.
: Right.
9
MR.
: Yeah. Bring something up if
10
they didn't. Uh-huh.
11
MR.
: So, you'd only bring it
12
up if you knew he didn't have one?
13
MR.
: So, like, if you say, hey,
14
guys, how many single cells I have? Such and
15
such. Hey, what's going on? Hey, well, this is
16
the reason. Yeah.
17
MR.
: And is that something -
18
when you would visit the SHU - is that
19
something you would ask? How many single cells
20
do you have?
21
MR.
: Yeah.
22
MR.
: Is that a like one of the
23
check-the-box things? Does everybody that
24
visits the SHU --
25
MR.
: I can't speak for everybody.
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But I know, even as OIC, we said, hey, you know
2
the fine, we have single cells. Maneuver to
3
condense it for space. Stuff like that.
4
MR.
: Okay.
5
MR.
: So, I don't know if everyone
6
(Indiscernible *00:32:18) into it.
7
MR.
: But that's what you would
8
do? When you were the activities' lieutenant?
9
MR.
: No. Sometimes.
10
MR.
: Okay.
11
MR.
: If I seen someone without,
12
hey, what's going on with this dude? Well, he's
13
housed (Indiscernible *00:32:28) room.
14
MR.
: Okay.
15
MR.
: Okay.
16
MR.
: But when you would visit
17
the SHU, was that something you would address,
18
saying how many single cells do we got?
19
MR.
: I'm not the SHU lieutenant.
20
MR.
: Oh, only if you're the
21
SHU lieutenant?
22
MR.
: Yeah.
23
MR.
: I'm talking about
24
MR.
: The SHU lieutenant --
25
MR.
: -- when you do your
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rounds.
2
MR.
: -- you do the rounds, you
3
only say it if you know that someone got - a
4
new come in. Okay, you got space for him. No.
5
Right now, we've got to put him in a single
6
cell, or something like that.
7
MR.
: Okay. And were you ever
8
the SHU lieutenant?
9
MR.
: At MCC?
10
MR.
: Yeah.
11
MR.
: I don't think so. I was
12
never SHU lieutenant.
13
MR.
: Okay. But do you
14
remember ever having any conversations with
15
anyone in the SHU --
16
MR.
: No.
17
MR.
: -- at the MCC about
18
Epstein and his cellmate requirement?
19
MR.
: No.
20
MR.
: No? All right. So,
21
referring to the duty assignment roster, who
22
were the MCC's supervisors on duty, with
23
responsibility for overseeing the SHU on August
24
9, 2019, when you were working?
25
MR.
: It would be me and
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1
MR.
: So, the two of you would
2
be responsible?
3
MR.
: On day watch. Yeah.
4
MR.
: Okay. And then, would it
5
be the same thing for the shift after you?
6
Would that be the activities' lieutenant and
7
the ops lieutenant?
8
MR.
: Yeah.
9
MR.
: And is that because, when
10
the SHU lieutenant is not there, activities'
11
lieutenant and ops lieutenant always have
12
oversight of the SHU?
13
MR.
: Well, I told you we have to
14
make a round.
15
MR.
: Right.
16
MR.
: In SHU. Yeah.
17
MR.
: But that would be the
18
lieutenants - they would be the lieutenants
19
that would have oversight over the SHU,
20
correct?
21
MR.
: Yeah. Pretty much.
22
MR.
: Okay. On August 9th,
23
what communications did you have with any of
24
the other lieutenants with regard to Epstein
25
being housed with the MCC, or the MCC SHU? Can
EFTA00110742
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you recall?
2
MR.
: No.
3
MR.
: And again, thinking back,
4
this is like one of the biggest things that's
5
ever happened when you were there, this guy
6
dies. Can you remember any conversations you
7
had the day before, with anyone, with regards
8
to Epstein?
9
MR.
: I just know that he used to
10
come to legal all the time.
11
MR.
: Yeah.
12
MR.
: Attorney conference, pretty
13
much the whole day.
14
MR.
: Right.
15
MR.
: And that's about it.
16
MR.
: And about what time would
17
he be moved to attorney conference?
18
MR.
: Early. Like, probably 8:00
19
in the morning.
20
MR.
: And who would be the
21
person that would move him there?
22
MR.
: The SHU staff. Get him out
23
the SHU.
24
MR.
: Okay.
25
MR.
: He was in SHU.
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1
MR.
: And what would the - as
2
the activities' lieutenant, did you visit him
3
at all in attorney conference, or check on him?
4
Is that part of your round process?
5
MR.
: It's not part of the rounds,
6
but if you see him in there, if you standing by
7
the elevators or something like that, yeah.
8
MR.
: Okay.
9
MR.
: But you're not - you don't
10
have to check. No.
11
MR.
: All right. Did anyone
12
ever provide you with special instructions,
13
with regards to Epstein?
14
MR.
: Special instructions?
15
MR.
:
Yeah.
16
MR.
: Like? Something - no.
17
MR.
:
No?
18
MR.
:
With special instructions?
19
Like -?
20
MR.
:
Like, conversations with
21
Epstein, hey, make sure you do this. Just
22
Epstein, make sure this is going - you know?
23
guess specific instructions. Maybe "special"
24
isn't the right word --
25
MR.
: No.
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1
MR.
: -- but did anyone ever
2
specifically say, you know, this is Epstein,
3
we've got to make sure we're doing this?
4
MR.
: Hmm-mm. No. Not that I
5
recall.
6
MR.
: No? Did any lieutenants
7
ever talk to you about Epstein's requirement to
8
have a cellmate?
9
MR.
Hmm-mm. I mean, it's not -.
10
Like I said, we've got the email.
11
MR.
: Right.
12
MR.
: There's no one saying, hey,
13
by the way, from my understanding didn't he
14
have a cellmate up until then? I think he had a
15
cellmate since he got out of the suicide watch.
16
So, I don't think there was a lapse in it.
17
MR.
: Right.
18
MR.
: Yeah.
19
MR.
: So, what about up until
20
then? You're saying, so --
21
MR.
: Right. Yeah. The cellmate,
22
right?
23
MR.
: -- so, what is your
24
understanding of what happened --
25
MR.
: What happened?
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MR.
: -- on August 9th?
2
MR.
: His cellmate went to court,
3
and either went to transferred, or got
4
released, or something. And never came back.
5
And then, you know, that night, he went out, he
6
went without a cellmate.
7
MR.
: Okay.
8
MR.
: Yeah.
9
MR.
: So, we'll get into that.
10
I'll ask you a couple more questions, then,
11
just to make sure we stay on kind of page, at
12
the bottom of this page, you see, we're going
13
to start talking about that inmate. And I'll
14
just - what you knew about that. You said the
15
lieutenants are responsible for conducting
16
rounds. Are they responsible for conducting
17
counts in the SHU?
18
MR.
: No.
19
MR.
: No? So, like, just
20
around, nothing to do with counts when you were
21
-?
22
MR.
: Count is for officers.
23
MR.
: Okay. And you don't need
24
to oversee them as the lieutenant, or anything
25
like that?
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1
MR.
: You could take a count, but
2
usually, you're doing patrol, you're not doing
3
the count with the officers.
4
MR.
: Right. So, in physically
5
presence in the SHU, the only time that the
6
lieutenant is involved is actually with rounds,
7
not with counts?
8
MR.
: Not with counts.
9
MR.
: Okay. And did you
10
conduct any rounds in the SHU, on August 9,
11
2019?
12
MR.
: I'm not sure. I can't
13
recall.
14
MR.
: You don't remember?
15
Again, you're placing yourself back on one of
16
the biggest incidences, and you know all this
17
circus that's been going on since that time.
18
MR.
: Yeah, I know.
19
MR.
: So, you can't really put
20
yourself back on that day of, like, hey, what
21
was my involvement with this, and did I -?
22
MR.
: No. No. I had no
23
involvement with this.
24
MR.
: Well, that's what I mean,
25
but you --
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MR.
: Mm-hmm.
2
MR.
:
You were the activities'
3
lieutenant, you know, on the, you know, the day
4
before.
5
MR.
:
Yeah.
6
MR.
: And specifically, like
7
you just said, on the day before, when his
8
cellmate was removed.
9
MR.
:
Yeah.
10
MR.
:
So, you can't remember?
11
MR.
: If I did a round, then no.
12
MR.
: Okay. So, you can't -.
13
Then, do you remember having any conversations
14
with any of the people listed in there, on your
15
shift, in the SHU? On that date, specifically
16
with regard to Epstein, or
, his cellmate.
17
MR.
: No.
18
MR.
: All right. And it'll be,
19
like, a
. None of those
22
people?
23
MR.
: No.
24
MR.
: Okay. So, you didn't
25
speak to any of those people about Epstein
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1
being required to have a celimate since his
2
celimate was gone?
3
MR.
: You're talking about that
4
day?
5
MR.
: Yeah.
6
MR.
: Or you're just saying --
7
MR.
: On the day that --
8
MR.
-- I can't remember.
9
MR.
: -- okay. All right. The
10
people that are in the SHU, are they
11
responsible for conducting counts and round
12
during their shift?
13
MR.
: Yes.
14
MR.
: As far as the shift that
15
you worked, on day watch, what is your
16
understanding of how many rounds and counts
17
they should have done?
18
MR.
: There's no counts on day
19
watch.
20
MR.
: Okay. What about the
21
rounds?
22
MR.
: The rounds, every - you're
23
doing a certain shift, we go about. So, you do
24
one, say, like, 8:00 to 8:30, you do one. 8:30
25
to 9:00, you do one.
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1
MR.
:
So, every 30 minutes?
2
MR.
: Every 30 minutes.
Not to
3
exceed 40 minutes. They're regular rounds.
4
MR.
: Okay. And you're
5
supposed to do one of those rounds with them,
6
but you can't recall whether you did or not?
7
MR.
: No. We're not supposed to do
8
rounds with them. No.
9
MR.
:
You're supposed to just
10
do your own round?
11
MR.
:
Yeah.
12
MR.
: Okay.
13
MR.
: Do our round in SHU.
14
MR.
: And can you recall if you
15
did your round in SHU?
16
MR.
: No, I can't.
17
MR.
:
You can't recall? Would
18
it be abnormal if you didn't?
19
MR.
: I can't recall.
20
MR.
:
You can't recall if it
21
would be abnormal if you didn't?
22
MR.
: If I didn't do the round?
23
MR.
: Right.
24
MR.
: Would it be abnormal? I mean,
25
I'm not the SHU lieutenant. That's what I'm
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saying.
2
MR.
: But there's no SHU
3
lieutenant, you said, that, you know, you or
4
would be responsible. So, I'm saying,
5
would it be abnormal if you didn't do it? So,
6
would you normally have done it? I know you
7
said you're responsible for it.
8
MR.
: No. The lieutenants are
9
responsible, but if a Monday through Friday, if
10
a SHU lieutenant is there, there's no reason
11
for me to go up there.
12
MR.
: But there's no SHU
13
lieutenant.
14
MR.
: Right. So, but I don't
15
recall if I did a round or not. No.
16
MR.
: Okay. But the last
17
question wasn't that. I'm saying, would it
18
have been abnormal if you didn't do one? I know
19
you can't recall it --
20
MR.
: Yeah.
21
MR.
: -- but would you normally
22
have done it, if there's no SHU lieutenant?
23
MR.
: Yeah.
24
MR.
: Yeah? So, knowing
25
yourself, you probably would -.
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1
MR.
: If there's no SHU lieutenant,
2
yeah.
3
MR.
: Okay.
4
MR.
: Okay.
5
MR.
:
When did you become aware
6
that inmate
was removed from the MCC on
7
August 9, 2019?
8
MR.
: I don't know.
9
MR.
:
What is -.
10
MR.
: The only thing I heard is, I
11
know, I woke up, they're saying, I saw the
12
story.
13
MR.
:
What is your involvement,
14
as the activities' lieutenant that day, with
15
inmates who are going to court?
16
MR.
: I didn't have no involvement.
17
MR.
:
So, the activities
18
MR.
: (Indiscernible *00:41:32).
19
MR.
: -- lieutenant is not
20
involved?
21
MR.
: No.
22
MR.
: Is the ops lieutenant
23
involved?
24
MR.
: Not really, no.
25
MR.
:
So, who is involved? Who
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1
-?
2
MR.
: R&D. Receive and Discharge.
3
MR.
: Okay. And do you
4
remember who was working in R&D that day, in
5
that morning?
6
MR.
: No.
7
MR.
: Are you able to tell by
8
looking at that --
9
MR.
: No.
10
MR.
: -- sheet? How does that
11
work? How do you find out who was in R&D for
12
that day? On that morning.
13
MR.
: That's the custody roster.
14
I'm not sure.
15
MR.
:
So, that's a different
16
roster?
17
MR.
: Yeah.
18
MR.
:
What would that roster be
19
called?
20
MR.
: I don't know.
21
MR.
:
You're not sure?
22
MR.
: That's not our department.
23
MR.
: Okay. So, did they come
24
and retrieve those individuals from the SHU, or
25
does the SHU staff bring them to R&D?
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1
MR.
: It depends. If it's busy,
2
you say, hey, I need help, they go up and help
3
you out. If not, the SHU crew, all right, take
4
them down.
5
MR.
: So, if it were at a non-
6
busy traditional way, who would have been the
7
people on that roster?
8
MR.
: The SHU crew.
9
MR.
: And who on that day?
10
MR.
: You mean, for the court
11
movements?
12
MR.
: Yeah. Like, what time?
13
First of all, I guess I should say.
14
MR.
: It depends - that's what I'm
15
saying - so, it depends on if they're going to
16
Brooklyn, or wherever, you start early at 6:00.
17
So, that would be morning watch or day watch.
18
MR.
: So, it would be one or
19
the other? And does not - let's say if it was
20
8:00 a.m., who would have it been?
21
MR.
: The day watch crew.
22
MR.
: And who was on day watch
23
that day?
24
MR.
: Hmm.
25
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MR.
: And anybody - any of
2
those people - do you remember speaking about
3
4
MR.
: No.
5
MR.
: All right. And who was
6
the OIC? Who was the officer-in-charge, out of
7
that crew?
8
MR.
: Hmm.
9
MR.
was? Not
10
MR.
: According to this, it was
11
12
MR.
: Okay. So, on the
13
document, it's
. All right. I'm going
14
to show you a memo that was written by
15
on August 12, 2019. And it's the subject is,
16
"Pass information from Special Housing Unit."
17
It says, "On Friday, August 9, 2019, at
18
approximately 1:50 p.m., I, SOS
19
passed on to oncoming staff, officers
and
20
present shift staff, SOS
, and Officer
21
, that inmate
was going WAB, and
22
possibly may not return. Also, that inmate
23
Epstein will be needing a cellmate upon arrival
24
from his attorney visit." So, does that
25
refresh your memory? Did you have any
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1
conversations with
2
MR.
: No.
3
MR.
:
Who would have made
4
aware that
was going WAB?
5
MR.
:
He could see it on the
6
roster. They send a sheet up the night before.
7
MR.
:
So, if that's not on the
8
night before, if on the night before, there's
9
no WAB - and this is at 1:50 p.m. that this
10
notification was made note - if there's no WAB
11
-. Well first of all what's WAB stand for?
12
MR.
:
With All Belongings.
13
MR.
: And if WAB is not next to
14
' name on the night before, the August 8th
15
roster, how would have he become aware at
16
around 1:50? Would normally the court call
17
R&D, and R&D pass that information along?
18
MR.
: R&D could have called him.
19
MR.
: So, would R&D call SHU
20
directly, or would they typically call the ops
21
or activities' lieutenant?
22
MR.
: They call the SHU.
23
MR.
: They do call SHU
24
directly? They wouldn't call you guys, and you
25
would have to the pass information on?
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1
MR.
: No.
2
MR.
: Okay. So, is it your
3
belief, then, that if it's that, in fact, what
4
happened, if
went to court, and then he
5
became WAB? Just tell me, what is your
6
understanding --
7
MR.
: I'm not sure how that one.
8
MR.
: -- of how that would
9
work?
10
MR.
: I'm not sure about that.
11
MR.
: Yeah. I'm not saying,
12
specifically, how he got it. What would be the
13
typical way that would work? If an inmate --
14
MR.
: If an inmate -.
15
MR.
: -- goes to court --
16
MR.
: Mm-hmm.
17
MR.
: -- and then is released.
18
MR.
: Mm-hmm.
19
MR.
: How does that process
20
work? Once that inmate is released, what
21
happens from that point, for the court, how do
22
they make the notifications known to the MCC,
23
all the way down to where that inmate was
24
housed? Specifically, this one in the SHU.
25
MR.
: R&D. Hey, that guy's not
EFTA00110757
1
coming back.
2
MR.
: Okay.
3
MR.
: Yeah.
4
MR.
: And then, would they
5
typically say, now WAB, would that be the words
6
that they would use, or would they say, he's
7
not coming back?
8
MR.
: Either/or. The WAB is
9
something that's on the roster.
10
MR.
: Okay. So, is WAB
11
specific to the roster, or is WAS also if he
12
was called and told?
13
MR.
: I'm not sure. I don't know.
14
I've seen it before on the roster. Like, hey,
15
this is the court list. It says WAB.
16
MR.
: Right. And I'm saying
17
MR.
:
Yeah.
18
MR.
: -- in this circumstance,
19
if there is no WAS --
20
MR.
: I'm not sure.
21
MR.
: -- next to
name --
22
MR.
: I'm not sure.
23
MR.
: -- okay. But you didn't
24
have any conversations with
25
MR.
: No.
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65
1
MR.
: No? And you seem pretty
2
confident with that. Not like I can't recall.
3
You did not have any conversations with
4
5
MR.
: Yeah, I had no conversations
6
with him.
7
MR.
: What about with
8
Did you have any conversations with
abou -
9
going WAB or not coming back?
10
MR.
Pfft, I can't recall that,
11
either.
12
MR.
: Did you know that
13
had left that day for court?
14
MR.
: No.
15
MR.
: So then, therefore, did
16
you not know that he was not coming back?
17
MR.
: No, I didn't know. No.
18
MR.
: Okay. And you don't
19
remember if you actually did a round in the SHU
20
to see that he wasn't there?
21
MR.
: No.
22
MR.
: So, can you recall any
23
conversations you had that day about
24
MR.
: I don't think I had no
25
conversations about
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66
1
MR.
: That's what I'm asking.
2
So, you can't recall any conversations you had
3
that day about
4
MR.
: No.
5
MR.
: And you don't think you
6
had any?
7
MR.
: No.
8
MR.
:
No? Okay. All right.
9
We're going to continue with this.
10
MR.
: I've got --
11
MR.
: Go ahead.
12
MR.
: -- so, just to clarification.
13
The night before, how would MCC get to know
14
that
is leaving?
15
MR.
:
Well, like I said, the court
16
list.
17
MR.
: The court list. Who creates
18
it?
19
MR.
: But sometimes, that's not
20
always accurate.
21
MR.
: Who creates that?
22
MR.
: Hmm-mm. I guess R&D.
23
MR.
: And it doesn't show who's in
24
R&D over there, right?
25
MR.
: No.
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1
MR.
: No. But R&D creates the
2
court list. And what do they do with that
3
court list?
4
MR.
: They send it out to all the
5
units. So, you get one. If you're a unit
6
officer, you'll get it and say, okay, I got
7
three guys leaving, because it says WAB. So,
8
you say, hey, wake up, we're packing up, and
9
leaving.
10
MR.
: They send the whole list, or
11
they just did the email saying, hey, these are
12
the inmates leaving from here?
13
MR.
: Yeah. I've never seen an
14
email. I've just seen the list.
15
MR.
: Okay. And it's just, like, a
16
generic email that goes out to everyone?
17
MR.
: It's a call list.
18
MR.
: But - sorry, I want to
19
make sure that I understood what you just said
20
- is it provided by email, or is it provided by
21
22
MR.
: I've never seen it provided
23
by email.
24
MR.
: -- so, you've never seen
25
it on email. It's just a list that's provided.
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68
1
So, who - R&D comes and gives it to the SHU?
2
MR.
: No. They send it up.
3
MR.
: So, Internal comes and
4
gets it?
5
MR.
: Internal. Yeah.
6
MR.
: So, on this date, would
7
you know who would have been Internal? Who
8
would have provided that list to the SHU?
9
MR.
: I see who's Internal, but I'm
10
not - I don't know if they would have provided
11
it. We've got two Internals.
12
MR.
: And who are the two
13
Internals?
14
MR. -:
(Phonetic Sp.
15
*00:48:29) and
16
MR. -:
and
17
MR.
: Yeah.
18
MR.
: All right. So, they're
19
the two that typically - you're not saying that
20
they did - but they're typically the people
21
that would have provided the court list?
22
MR.
: Yeah. Internal. That's what
23
they usually do. It could have been a
24
sanitation.
25
MR.
: Now, isn't the list
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69
1
typically provided the day before, or is it
2
just created the day before?
3
MR.
: I don't know. I can't
Is
4
it provided the day before?
5
MR.
: Yeah.
6
MR.
: It was provided the same day.
7
MR.
: It is?
8
MR.
: You get about - you get the
9
morning watch the day of.
10
MR.
: I was always - I was
11
under the understanding that the night before,
12
on August 8th, they would create the list for
13
the morning, on the August 9th. Do you know --
14
MR.
: Yeah.
15
MR.
: -- was that a correct
16
understanding?
17
MR.
: I'm not sure. All I know is,
18
if you're an officer, you get it the day of.
19
MR.
: All right. So -.
20
MR.
: Because when I was an
21
officer, I used to get it the day of.
22
MR.
: All right. And you've
23
worked in the SHU before?
24
MR.
: Yes.
25
MR.
: Okay. So, when you
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worked in the SHU, it would come in that
2
morning?
3
MR.
: Yeah.
4
MR.
: Around what time would it
5
arrive?
6
MR.
: About 2:00 in the morning. I
7
know that's early.
8
MR.
: Oh, super early.
9
MR.
: Yeah.
10
MR.
: So, it would come in at
11
morning watch.
12
MR.
: Yeah. Morning watch.
13
MR.
: Okay. And are there
14
people in Internal working at that time, around
15
2:00 a.m.?
16
MR.
: Yeah.
17
MR.
: And is that the same
18
people you just listed?
19
MR.
: Yeah.
20
MR.
: So, those morning watch
21
individuals are the ones that would probably
22
have provided the court list?
23
MR.
: Yeah.
24
MR.
: And do you know, is that
25
document maintained anywhere? The court list
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document?
2
MR.
: No.
3
MR.
:
Is that, like, uploaded
4
in any kind of system?
5
MR.
: Not that I know of.
6
MR.
:
No? So, do you know who
7
you said R&D creates it?
8
MR.
: Mm-hmm.
9
MR.
: But they don't create it
10
in a system. They just -.
11
MR.
: I don't know. I mean, that's
12
not my department.
13
MR.
: Okay.
14
MR.
: Mm-hmm.
15
MR.
: Is there, like, an
16
officer-in-charge of R&D?
17
MR.
:
Yeah. So, you have a CMC.
18
MR.
: And --
19
MR.
: Corrections.
20
MR.
: -- do you know who, in
21
August, would have been that person?
22
MR.
: In August, no. Because I
23
know the CMC was out for a while. And they got
24
a - they also had a supervisor.
25
MR.
: And do you know who that
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would be?
2
MR.
: No. But they had a
3
supervisor. I know that's their position, but
4
I don't know who it is.
5
MR.
: And that would be, like,
6
a lieutenant?
7
MR.
: No.
8
MR.
:
Who would -?
9
MR.
: Lieutenant is custody. R&D
10
is non-custody.
11
MR.
: Explain to me what R&D
12
is, and as far as -.
13
MR.
: That's Receiving and
14
Discharge.
15
MR.
:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
16
MR.
: So, they deal with the inmate
17
movement, the inmate courts, the transfers, the
18
self-surrenders.
19
MR.
: And you're saying that
20
they're not called lieutenants or anything.
21
What are their titles?
22
MR.
: Correctional systems officer.
23
MR.
: Correctional systems
24
officers. And, like, a supervisor, would they
25
still be, like -?
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1
MR.
: Supervisor correctional
2
systems officer.
3
MR.
: And would that be, like,
4
a nine or an 11 type of --
5
MR.
: Something like that.
6
MR.
: -- position? All right.
7
But they're just outside of, you said custody,
8
underneath -. What is the system that they're
9
underneath?
10
MR.
: It's the non-custody and
11
custody.
12
MR.
: Okay.
13
MR.
: And they have correctional
14
officer, a correctional worker, as opposed to
15
custody is a correctional officer.
16
MR.
: Okay. And who would be
17
Does the captain also have oversight over
18
them?
19
MR.
: No.
20
MR.
:
Who has oversight over
21
them? Non-custody.
22
MR.
: The CMC. They have a
23
supervisor.
24
MR.
:
What does the CMC mean?
25
MR.
: Correctional Management
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Coordinator.
2
MR.
: Okay. And that is
3
outside of the captain's purview?
4
MR.
Yup.
5
MR.
: And you don't remember
6
who that was, at that time?
7
MR.
: No.
8
MR.
: Okay. And you said you
9
did not have any conversations at all. So, you
10
didn't have any conversations with
about
11
12
MR.
: No. Not that I remember.
13
No.
14
MR.
:
What about with
15
MR.
Hmm. No.
16
MR.
:
No? But he would have
17
been - he relieved
18
MR.
: I can't recall.
19
MR.
:
No?
20
MR.
: Hmm-mm.
21
MR.
: And was
, do you
22
remember if you had any kind of interaction
23
with her at all on August 9th?
24
MR.
: No.
25
MR.
:
No? So, obviously, you
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1
can't remember if you had any conversations
2
about
3
MR.
: No. I don't remember
4
discussing
5
MR.
: Right.
6
MR.
: No.
7
MR.
: So, did you ever receive
8
any call around 1:50, or at any time, saying
9
MR.
: No.
10
MR.
: -- that
was going
11
WAB? No? So, at this point in time, obviously,
12
you're saying you didn't know anything at that
13
point in time. Now, after the fact, what do
14
you know about
being removed from the
15
MMC?
16
MR.
: I just know he went to court,
17
and never came back. And that was it.
18
MR.
: Do you know any
19
information about who was informed that he
20
wasn't coming back?
21
MR.
: No.
22
MR.
: So, even after the fact,
23
you don't know?
24
MR.
: No.
25
MR.
: Do you know anything -.
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1
I mean, was it at all discussed about, like,
2
hey, somebody dropped the ball there?
3
MR.
: No.
4
MR.
:
No? There wasn't even a
5
conversation?
6
MR.
: I mean, that's the thing. I
7
don't recall him going - I didn't know he was
8
me personally - didn't know he was going WAB.
9
And I don't think a lot of other people did,
10
either.
11
MR.
:
Did anyone ever ask you
12
about that --
13
MR.
: About
14
MR.
: -- yeah.
15
MR.
: No.
16
MR.
: Even after?
17
MR.
: No.
18
MR.
:
So, like, on August 10th,
19
August 11th, August 12th, did anyone come up to
20
you and say, hey, did you know
wasn't
21
coming back?
22
MR.
: No.
23
MR.
: And have you ever been
24
interviewed for this matter before?
25
MR.
: No.
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MR.
: No? Did you have
2
conversations with people like
, or
3
, or anyone, regarding this matter,
4
after Epstein was found?
5
MR.
: What matter?
6
MR.
: Epstein being found, and
7
not having a cellmate?
8
MR.
: No.
9
MR.
: No? You never talked to
10
anybody in the institution about that?
11
MR.
: About him not having a
12
cellmate, or are you talking about him being
13
found?
14
MR.
: No. About him not having
15
a cellmate.
16
MR.
: I mean, not in a -. I mean,
17
we sent a, hey, what happened, or, like, what
18
happened to his cellmate? Oh, he got released.
19
Okay. It was - he said it like that, but
20
nothing -. No. Not like that.
21
MR.
: Was it any conversation
22
of, like, hey, why didn't they put a new
23
cellmate with him?
24
MR.
: No.
25
MR.
: No? So, if, at around
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1:50 -.
2
MR.
: That's what I'm saying.
3
That's the time. That's why I'm looking at
4
you, saying 1:50. Yeah.
5
MR.
: Yeah. I mean, this is
6
where --
7
MR.
: Yeah.
8
MR.
:
I'm getting the 1:50,
9
is because --
10
MR.
: Because these guys --
11
MR.
: -- it says
12
MR.
: -- they go to court -.
13
MR.
knows that,
14
at least by 1:50, he's going WAB.
15
MR.
: Mm-hmm.
16
MR.
: Should have he
17
communicated with either or
about that?
18
MR.
: I don't know. I don't know
19
how he communicated with.
20
MR.
: No. I'm not asking who
21
he did. I'm asking you, should have he?
22
MR.
: I mean, I know when I was
23
OIC, and they give us call it, okay. So, if he
24
didn't say nothing to the lieutenant, I could
25
see why. I mean, you're telling me, I'm the
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1
OIC. And okay, I got the notification.
2
MR.
: So -.
3
MR.
: So, if he didn't pass nothing
4
on, it's -.
5
MR.
: Is it abnormal that he
6
didn't pass it on, though? Should have he
7
passed it to you? Because -.
8
MR.
: It's not. It's not -. I
9
mean -.
10
MR.
: Could have he placed
11
another inmate with someone like Epstein?
12
MR.
: I'm not sure because then,
13
again, it says possibly. WABs get cancelled.
14
They get cancelled.
15
MR.
: Sure.
16
MR.
: That's why the 1:50, we don't
17
know until after, like, hey, who is this guy
18
coming back? R&D is open at 8:00, 9:00.
19
MR.
: So, about what time would
20
they normally make that notification that, okay
21
-?
22
MR.
: After 4:00.
23
MR.
: After 4:00?
24
MR.
: Yes.
25
MR.
: And is it some - when you
EFTA00110773
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1
say after 4:00 - is it usually between 4:00 and
2
5:00?
3
MR.
: After 4:00. Any time after
4
4:00.
5
MR.
: So, anywhere from 4:00 to
6
5:00, 4:00 to 6:00, 4:00 to 8:00. What -?
7
MR.
: After the count.
8
MR.
: So, after the 4:00 III.
9
count.
10
MR.
: After the 4:00 III. count.
11
MR.
: And why is it after the
12
count?
13
MR.
: Because that's when the guys
14
come back, after the count. We do the 4:00
15
count. And then, you get an (Indiscernible
16
*00:56:31) base count change is like this. You
17
get 20 guys came back from court, this WAB got
18
cancelled.
19
MR.
: So, as far as the 4:00
20
count, or is it at that point, do people start
21
saying, where are these guys, and start making
22
calls, are they coming back or not?
23
MR.
: At 4:00? No.
24
MR.
: No? So, when is the next
25
time that they would be listed on that count?
EFTA00110774
1
MR.
: The 9:00 count.
2
MR.
: The 10:00 count?
3
MR.
: Oh, the 10:00 count. Yeah.
4
MR.
: Do you want to ask some
5
more questions on that line? I'm just trying to
6
-. Because I thought it was at - I felt people
7
have told at 4:00, that's when they start
8
making calls to say, is this guy coming back or
9
not. That's not your understanding?
10
MR.
: Why would you make a call at
11
4:00?
12
MR.
: Because you've got to
13
know if they're coming back to the unit or not
14
coming back.
15
MR.
: Well, the count, 3:45 is
16
over. So, you're in the unit or not. So, at
17
4:00, we do the count. After the count, that's
18
when the guys come in from court.
19
MR.
: Okay.
20
MR.
: That's when we get the guys
21
coming back to SHU and going back to their
22
units.
23
MR.
: And would you be - would
24
anybody be notified, prior to 4:00, that people
25
were, or were not, coming back?
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1
MR.
: Not to my understanding. No.
2
MR.
: All right. So, to your
3
understanding, it's not until 4:00 or later,
4
that this, you know, people would know
5
was not coming back?
6
MR.
: Yeah.
7
MR.
: All right. So, if
8
doesn't come back after 4:00 III., who, on that
9
daily assignment roster, would be responsible
10
for making notifications, or determining that
11
Epstein needed a cellmate?
12
MR.
: I mean, the notification is
13
here. We already have the notification.
14
MR.
: Yeah.
I know you're
15
pointing to the email that says that he
16
requires to have a cellmate. What I'm asking
17
is, okay, now 4:00 on, at some point after
18
4:00, you're saying
- it's known that
19
is now not coming back.
20
MR.
: Mm-hmm.
21
MR.
: Not - possibly not coming
22
back, but he's not coming back. Who would be
23
responsible for placing - for making
24
notifications that, hey,
is out, Epstein
25
does not have a cellmate, we need to start
EFTA00110776
1
making some notifications?
2
MR.
: I mean, I don't know.
3
There's no notifications. That's if he doesn't
4
have a cellmate, we give him a cellmate.
5
MR.
: Yeah. So, what I'm
6
saying is -.
7
MR.
: But the lieutenant is not
8
saying, hey, by the way, you know? If they
9
catch it, they'll say it, but if they don't -.
10
MR.
: And I'm not saying it's -
11
12
MR.
: Yeah.
13
MR.
: -- a lieutenant's
14
responsibility. What I'm asking is, whose
15
responsibility is it?
16
MR.
: To say, hey, this guy, get
17
him a cellmate, or make a notification?
18
MR.
: Yes. Like, who would be
19
the first one to know that
is no longer
20
there? Would it be the SHU?
21
MR.
: I'd say R&D.
22
MR.
: So, R&D would be there.
23
What is R&D's responsibility, at that point?
24
MR.
: Oh, hey, we've got all the
25
inmates back. It's such and such. And that's
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1
it. You ain't get him? Then they're not coming
2
back. They're gone.
3
MR.
: But would R&D be
4
responsible for saying, hey, SHU,
isn't
5
coming back, or would they say, hey, ops
6
lieutenant,
isn't coming back. Who would
7
R&D notify?
8
MR.
: I'm not sure. In the past, I
9
would say they calling SHU directly.
10
MR.
: SHU directly?
11
MR.
: Yeah.
12
MR.
: All right. So, in the
13
SHU, after 4:00, who was working?
14
MR. -:
, and
15
MR. -:
, and
16
Are they the only three there?
17
MR.
: That's the only three listed.
18
MR.
: Okay. So, one of those
19
three were likely notified?
20
MR.
: I'm not sure.
21
MR.
: Okay. And if they
22
weren't notified, at what point would they know
23
isn't coming back?
24
MR.
: I'll say about 8:00.
25
MR.
: And how would they be
EFTA00110778
1
notified?
2
MR.
: Because usually, all the
3
inmates are by then, you know, talking to the
4
lieutenant, hey, is anyone else down there?
5
That's like a follow up call.
6
MR.
: Is there some point when
7
they should be saying, hey, this guy left at
8
8:00 this morning, he's still not back?
9
MR.
: No. You said, is it at some
10
point? Yeah.
11
MR.
: So, and at what point is
12
that? Is it during a count? Or is it just - is
13
there, like, you know, duties that they're
14
doing prior to the count, where they've got to
15
make sure people are there? How does that work?
16
MR.
: I mean -.
17
MR.
: You've worked in the SHU,
18
so from your recollection, from when you worked
19
in the SHU, how would that work? Especially
20
being that MCC is a jail, not a prison, where
21
people could, at any time, be released or
22
moved. How does that work in the SHU?
23
MR.
: I used to have, like, that,
24
think, set by 8:00.
25
MR.
: I'm sorry. What did you
EFTA00110779
1
say about 8:00?
2
MR.
: By 8:00, is when I say, hey,
3
is anyone else coming up? And this is the base
4
count. Like, I want to get everything straight
5
in the computer.
6
MR.
: Okay.
7
MR.
: I'll say by 8:00.
8
MR.
: And on that date, when
9
those three people were working, who would
10
typically be responsible for doing something
11
like that? Is it, like, SHU one, SHU two, two
12
three, or is it just anybody, any one of them,
13
or how does that work?
14
MR.
: To do what?
15
MR.
: To say, like, hey, we've
16
got to make sure our base count is correct.
17
MR.
: I mean, it could be any one
18
of them.
19
MR.
: Any one of them?
20
MR.
: Yeah.
21
MR.
: But it's not like
22
someone's job? It's just someone should take
23
that role.
24
MR.
: I mean, but they've got to
25
have the base count right, for the 10:00 count.
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1
MR.
: So, one of those people
2
should have got the base count right, but it's
3
not one specific person's duty? Or is it
4
something that they're supposed to collaborate
5
on all together?
6
MR.
: I mean, it depends. It
7
depends. If you're working, hey, such and such
8
(Indiscernible *01:02:01). If you're number
9
two, you know, you go to the board, you could
10
change it yourself. You know, the OIC. All
11
right, you know, making sure everything is in
12
order.
13
MR.
: Was there an OIC on that
14
night?
15
MR.
: Yes.
16
MR.
: Who?
17
MR.
18
MR.
: So,
was the OIC?
19
MR.
: Yes.
20
MR.
: So, technically, he's
21
probably the one who should have been
22
responsible to catch the fact that their base
23
count changed, and he wasn't coming back?
24
MR.
: I'm not sure about that.
25
Because he was non-custody. I'm not sure.
EFTA00110781
1
MR.
: Okay.
2
MR.
: Because, you see, he's non-
3
custody. Mine was non-custody. He's just up
4
there for overtime. So, I'm not sure.
5
MR.
: Okay. Now, as far the
6
lieutenants' job. So, at that point in time,
7
it was
that was the ops, and
hd -
8
was the activities. What is their role in
9
ensuring that
is, one, back; and two,
10
Epstein is placed with a new cellmate?
11
MR.
: Yeah.
12
MR.
: Do they have any role? Or
13
is it all on the SHU?
14
MR.
: I mean, it's - they don't
15
have a role. You know, it's -.
16
MR.
: What about when they're
17
conducting their rounds, as part of their
18
responsibility to say, to check that kind of
19
stuff, or is it just to see what inmates are
20
there, and that the inmates that are there, are
21
okay?
22
MR.
: Pretty much. You've got to
23
do a round.
24
MR.
: Does that round entail
25
verifying that Epstein has a cellmate and
EFTA00110782
1
isn't there?
2
MR.
: I'm not sure of that. We
3
just know we do our rounds.
4
MR.
: So, that goes back to,
5
what does a round entail? Does that mean that
6
you need to verify that the people that are on
7
the books are there, and other people are
8
removed?
9
MR.
: Yes, with staff and
10
accountability. For the most part. You know?
11
Inmates banging, hey, all right, I'll be up,
12
doing my round. I'll deal with this when I get
13
up there.
14
MR.
: But when you say for
15
accountability, what does that entail?
16
MR.
: Presence of inmates,
17
depending on who goes up there. They know,
18
okay, this is on - they try certain things,
19
they won't try certain things.
20
MR.
: Are you comparing a list
21
of the inmates that you know to be in the SHU,
22
with who's actually in the SHU?
23
MR.
: No. Not for a round. No.
24
MR.
: No? All right. So, as
25
far as a round conducted by a lieutenant, would
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90
1
they know - would they be able to figure out
2
that
was removed?
3
MR.
: Depending on what time the
4
round was.
5
MR.
: And can you give me more
6
explanation? What time would that change?
7
MR.
: If I do an early round, and
8
Epstein's in a cell by his self, okay, I still
9
have time, still doing court movements, and it
10
wouldn't raise no suspicion or no alarm.
11
MR.
: Okay. So, about what
12
time would there be a suspicion or alarm that
13
be raised?
14
MR.
: I told you. At about 8:00.
15
MR.
: 8:00?
16
MR.
: Yeah.
17
MR.
: Because
hasn't been
18
back?
19
MR.
: Yeah.
20
MR.
: Okay. Were you ever
21
provided any instructions on what actions
22
should be taken if
was removed as
23
Epstein's cellmate?
24
MR.
: No.
25
MR.
: What actions should have
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1
been taken once
was removed?
2
MR.
Hmm. Honestly, I mean, like
3
I said, we bunk all the inmates together. So,
4
if he was removed, look for him a new bunkie.
5
MR.
: And is that something -
6
should have they notified - when they say look
7
for a new bunkie, I'm assuming you're talking
8
about the people in the SHU?
9
MR.
: Yeah. A new cellmate. Yeah.
10
MR.
: So, I think you said
11
, and
12
MR.
: Yeah.
13
MR.
: Could have they placed
14
him with a new cellmate, or would have they had
15
you make notification to the ops and/or
16
activities' lieutenant?
17
MR.
: You know, they don't need to
18
make notification.
19
MR.
: What about when someone
20
is high-profile as an inmate as Epstein?
21
MR.
: No, he didn't make
22
notification.
23
MR.
: So, you don't think that
24
they would have. Do you know if Epstein's
25
cellmates were vetted by the captain and above?
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MR.
: I think I heard something
2
like that. I think so.
3
MR.
: Now, does that play into
4
that answer? About if they could have just
5
placed anyone with him?
6
MR.
: I'm not sure.
7
MR.
: Okay.
8
MR.
: But I think someone vetted
9
like that, pre-approved or something like that.
10
I think - I'm not sure - but I think I did hear
11
something like that.
12
MR.
: Okay. But to your
13
knowledge, they could have placed anyone with
14
him? Not anyone, but, like, they could have
15
placed a new inmate with him.
16
MR.
: Yeah, they could have.
17
MR.
: Okay. Should have they?
18
MR.
: I'm not sure. Like you said,
19
the whole vetted thing, yeah. I'm not sure.
20
MR.
: So, if they knew that
21
was vetted, and was placed with him, at
22
that point, should have they done anything
23
else? Such as called the lieutenant to say,
24
hey, he's not back, we need to get him a new
25
cellmate. Can I place someone with him, or
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should have they just taken action on their
2
own?
3
MR.
: I don't know.
4
MR.
: If you were - I know you
5
were day watch - but if you were evening watch,
6
would of you expected them to notify you?
7
MR.
: Yeah.
8
MR.
: So, in this case, should
9
have they notified
or should have they
10
notified
, or either of them?
11
MR.
: I'm not sure.
12
MR.
: Should have -.
13
MR.
: That was non-custody.
14
MR.
: Should have the person
15
notified them by telephone, or when one of
16
those lieutenants did their rounds?
17
MR.
: You said should they have?
18
MR.
: Yeah.
19
MR.
: If they would have? Yeah,
20
either/or. Both. Call, email, whatever.
21
MR.
: Now, someone like -. So,
22
was the activities' lieutenant that
23
night, correct?
24
MR.
: Yes.
25
MR.
: Since she was not a
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lieutenant, she was an SOS, do you feel that
2
she had the knowledge and capabilities to be
3
able to do that job, at that time?
4
MR.
: What job are you talking
5
about?
6
MR.
: Activities' lieutenant.
7
MR.
: Yeah. I think she was
8
training, right?
9
MR.
: Well, I -.
10
MR.
: I think she was training.
11
It's that temporary post, right?
12
MR.
: So -.
13
MR.
: Yeah, but that still wouldn't
14
be on her, though.
15
MR.
: If she's the one who did
16
a round in the SHU for her shift.
17
MR.
: Yeah.
18
MR.
: Is that something that
19
she should have checked on? Hey, where's
20
There's nobody in -. Because not only - I
21
mean, everyone knows what cellmate Epstein is
22
in. So, even if Epstein's not in there, and
23
he's still down at attorney conference, nobody
24
is in there. So, shouldn't that have been
25
something that you'd say, hey, where is this
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guy? Is he coming back? Should that be
2
something that was -?
3
MR.
: That kind of depends on the
4
time.
5
MR.
: And when you're saying
6
that you just mean because he possibly could be
7
coming back?
8
MR.
: Yes.
9
MR.
: But if no one is there,
10
and she knows he's out at court, shouldn't she
11
at least have followed up on, hey, anybody
12
check on him? Is he coming back?
13
MR.
: Well, that's R&D. R&D
14
notifies us if they're coming back or not.
15
MR.
: All right. So, when
16
doing rounds, that's not something being that,
17
hey, we've got to make sure that Epstein has a
18
cellmate. Not something that should be, like,
19
a, hey, nobody's in Epstein's cell. What's
20
going on there?
21
MR.
: I mean, that's what I'm
22
saying. We get this notice, not just with
23
Epstein, with every inmate --
24
MR.
: Okay.
25
MR.
: -- that comes on suicide
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watch.
2
MR.
:
So, did you ever see -
3
when you were visiting the cell - did you ever
4
see this sign up in the SHU?
5
MR.
: No.
6
MR.
: And I'm showing you a
7
colored note, saying, "Mandatory rounds must be
8
conducted every 30 minutes on Epstein, number
9
76318-054, as per GOD."
10
MR.
: Nah.
11
MR.
:
You never noticed that?
12
MR.
: No.
13
MR.
: All right. So, that's
14
nothing you ever saw in any of your times
15
visiting there?
16
MR.
: No.
17
MR.
: All right. If that was
18
up - sorry.
19
MR.
: Sorry.
20
MR.
:
Please.
21
MR.
: No, no. If you have.
22
MR.
:
No.
23
MR.
: I have a --
24
MR.
:
No, no, no.
25
MR.
:
I have a funny joke,
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that's why.
2
MR.
: I was just going to say,
3
if that is up for people to see, doing rounds
4
in the SHU, does that change any of those
5
answers of, hey, where is Epstein's cellmate?
6
MR.
: I mean, this is - if it's
7
rounds - that's something different than me
8
saying single bunk. So, if they're saying
9
we're doing rounds on them, that wouldn't make
10
them to think about, why is this guy - where is
11
his bunkie?
12
MR.
: You don't think so? So,
13
if you're actually looking into his cell and
14
saying, you know he needs a bunkie, I'm looking
15
in his cell, and there is no one else with him,
16
you don't think that those are correlated?
17
MR.
: Yeah, but not because of
18
this. No. That's just saying rounds, hey,
19
make sure you do your rounds.
20
MR.
: It says specifically
21
MR.
: Than when it's not --
22
MR.
rounds on -?
23
MR.
: -- yea, but normal, it's not
24
going to think just because - it's not going to
25
mix this with this.
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MR.
: So, even though they're
2
looking in on Epstein, seeing that he's not -
3
he's by himself, that won't alert them to the
4
fact -?
5
MR.
: No. Not that sign. No.
6
MR.
: No?
7
MR.
: No.
8
MR.
: You don't think so?
9
MR.
: It says, "Mandatory rounds."
10
MR.
: Do you know of any other
11
signs that were in the SHU, saying that he was
12
required to have a cellmate?
13
MR.
Hmm. I can't recall.
14
MR.
: What about the hot list?
15
Tell me about, what is a hot list?
16
MR.
: The hot list is inmates who
17
have suicidal behavior or attempts in the past.
18
MR.
: And people on the hot
19
list, are they required to have a cellmate?
20
MR.
: Yeah.
21
MR.
: Do you remember seeing
22
the hot list that was in the SHU?
23
MR.
: No.
24
MR.
: Is that as part, as a
25
lieutenant, would they check out the hot list
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when they would go down there?
2
MR.
: No. We would just - no - we
3
would just check to see if it's updated.
4
MR.
: Okay. So, Epstein's
5
listed on the hot list.
6
MR.
: Mm-hmm.
7
MR.
:
What does that, then,
8
tell these people working in the SHU?
9
MR.
:
He needs a cellmate.
10
MR.
: And do all of them know,
11
if Epstein's on the hot list, those people need
12
cellmates?
13
MR.
: I'm not sure if all of them
14
knew.
15
MR.
: But are they supposed to?
16
MR.
: I don't know. Yeah.
17
MR.
: All right. So, you feel
18
like the hot list is even more important than
19
the sign I just showed you, for cellmate
20
purposes?
21
MR.
: This sign? Where the sign
22
come from?
23
MR.
:
If this sign was in the
24
SHU --
25
MR.
:
You said "if"?
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MR.
: -- well, I'm not saying -
2
I can't say if - yeah - I can't tell you
3
MR.
: Oh.
4
MR.
: -- exactly what is and
5
what isn't. I'm just saying, assuming that
6
this was in the SHU.
7
MR.
: Mm-hmm.
8
MR.
:
What was your question?
9
MR.
: That's what I'm saying.
10
This, I don't think this was up there.
11
MR.
:
You don't think that was
12
in the SHU?
13
MR.
: No.
14
MR.
: Because -.
15
MR.
: I mean, not in no tier or
16
nothing like that.
17
MR.
: Okay. But around, like,
18
the officers -?
19
MR.
: The hot list is up there,
20
though.
21
MR.
: But what about, like, up
22
on, like, the desk area? Would you be around
23
the officer's desk area?
24
MR.
Hmm. I mean, if I had to.
25
MR.
:
But you didn't notice
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that --
2
MR.
: But not normally.
3
MR.
: -- in the desk area?
4
MR.
: No.
5
MR.
: All right. Where would
6
the hot list be located?
7
MR.
: So, behind the desks, like, a
8
wall we have, that we keep it up there.
9
MR.
: All right. And they're
10
supposed to be checking that, and making sure
11
those people are, one) checked on, and two)
12
have cellmates? Is that the purpose?
13
MR.
: The hot list is just any -
14
it's pretty much any inmate that comes from the
15
housing unit. They come from the housing unit.
16
This guy psych alert, hey, make sure this guy
17
gets a bunkie. That's the initial check.
18
That's what the hot list is for.
19
MR.
: And are they supposed to
20
check that list every day, to make those same -
21
22
MR.
: I mean, you don't - no, you
23
get up there, it's, hey, on the suicide watch,
24
is he on the hot list? So, it's not common to
25
check it every day. No.
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MR.
: All right. So, it's not
2
common to check it every day?
3
MR.
: Every day, no. Unless it's
4
updated.
5
MR.
: Only when it's updated,
6
you check it.
7
MR.
: Yeah, if the guy is still on
8
it.
9
MR.
: But wouldn't - again, the
10
fact that the MCC is a jail, not a prison
11
wouldn't it be pretty regular that people are
12
being moved in and out?
13
MR.
: Not on the hot list.
14
MR.
: No, but the people that
15
they're bunked with. If they're required to
16
have a cellmate --
17
MR.
: Mm-hmm.
18
MR.
: -- wouldn't it be prettl.
19
regular that they would have to - their
20
celimates might be leaving? Because if it's a
21
jail, not a prison.
22
MR.
: Yeah.
23
MR.
: So, that's what I'm
24
saying. So, how are they always ensuring that
25
those people that are required to have
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cellmates have cellmates?
2
MR.
: That's when you say, hey, I
3
got a single cell up there.
4
MR.
: And at what point is that
5
reviewed?
6
MR.
: The single cells?
7
MR.
: Yeah. Is that supposed
8
to be a daily occurrence?
9
MR.
: Yeah.
10
MR.
: And is that - what time
11
is that? The 8:00 time that you're talking
12
about?
13
MR.
: No. Usually, that's in the
14
morning. So, like, if I come in, hey, you
15
know, I'm going to - who's in the single cell?
16
You know?
17
MR.
: Well, what about -.
18
MR.
: At night, it's just not -.
19
At night, it's -.
20
MR.
: Even when people are left
21
during the day, and then come back from court?
22
Some people come back, some people don't.
23
MR.
: Yeah.
24
MR.
: Wouldn't that be another
25
time that they do it, or they don't do it at
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that time?
2
MR.
: I mean, I mean, like I said,
3
after that cut off time, that's when you start
4
saying, okay, we've got a single cell, of such
5
and such. Then again, remember, MCC get
6
inmates throughout the night.
7
MR.
: They do?
8
MR.
: Yeah.
9
MR.
: Placed in the SHU?
10
MR.
: Yeah.
11
MR.
: Okay. And you didn't
12
work that night. Do you know of any people
13
that were placed in the SHU that night, on
14
August 9th?
15
MR.
: No. Not according to this,
16
no.
17
MR.
: And did you conduct any
18
counts or rounds in the SHU on August 9th?
19
MR.
: I can't recall.
20
MR.
: And what is the purpose:
21
Why do COs conduct counts and rounds in the
22
SHU?
23
MR.
: To make sure they're alive.
24
MR.
: Is it also to make sure
25
everyone is there?
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MR.
:
Yeah.
2
MR.
: And are cells and counts
3
- are counts and rounds documented?
4
MR.
:
Yup.
5
MR.
: And how
6
MR.
: Probably.
7
MR.
: -- how are they
8
documented?
9
MR.
: 30-minute log in in TruScope.
10
MR.
:
So, 30-minute log for
11
rounds?
12
MR.
:
Yeah.
13
MR.
: And what is the TruScope?
14
MR.
: Rounds.
15
MR.
: That's rounds, as well?
16
MR.
:
You put rounds in there, too,
17
but all the counts.
18
MR.
:
So, counts
19
MR.
: Mainly counts, yeah.
20
MR.
so, are counts also
21
are there, like, little slips that are filled
22
out?
23
MR.
:
Yeah.
24
MR.
:
Who fills them out?
25
MR.
: All the officers.
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MR.
: And what do they do with
2
them?
3
MR.
:
Give it to Internal.
4
MR.
: And does Internal come to
5
the SHU, or does the SHU go to Internal?
6
MR.
: It depends.
7
Not before this incident.
8
MR. -:
MR.
: Or it does
9
it both ways?
10
MR.
: Both ways. Just get it to
11
control.
12
MR.
: Okay. Do all COs who
13
work in the SHU know how to properly conduct
14
and report counts and rounds?
15
MR.
: I'm not sure.
16
MR.
:
Should they know how to
17
conduct counts and rounds?
18
MR.
:
Yeah.
19
MR.
: And how should they know?
20
MR.
: Training.
21
MR.
: And do you think everyone
22
there got enough training to know how to do a
23
count and a round?
24
MR.
:
Yeah.
25
MR.
:
Did you ever hear of
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people, like, filling out count slips, or round
2
sheets? Either before, or at the very start of
3
their shift, for their entire shift, or at the
4
end of the shift for their entire shift?
5
MR.
: Not before this incident.
6
MR.
: Did you hear about that
7
after this incident?
8
MR.
: Yeah.
9
MR.
: What did you hear about
10
that?
11
MR.
: That they didn't count.
12
mean, it was filling out slips. It wasn't
13
counted. Wasn't making rounds.
14
MR.
: And who was it that you
15
heard that wasn't conducting counts and rounds?
16
MR. -:
and
17
MR.
: Anybody else in there?
18
MR.
: No.
19
MR.
: Did you hear anything
20
about counts and rounds not being conducted
21
prior to midnight on August 10th? So, any time
22
on August 9th, did you hear about any of those
23
counts and rounds not being conducted?
24
MR.
: On the morning watch then?
25
MR.
: Any time on August 9th.
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So, this date.
2
MR.
: No.
3
MR.
: Even after the fact, you
4
never heard about, like, the 10:00 III. count,
5
or the 4:00
count, the counts not being
6
conducted?
7
MR.
: No.
8
MR.
:
You haven't heard that?
9
MR.
: No. I don't know. Not that
10
I know of. Some, what, counts on these days?
11
MR.
:
Yeah.
12
MR.
: No. You have the 4:00 count.
13
You have the 10:00 count. Yeah, the midnight
14
count. Yeah.
15
MR.
: Right. So, what I'm
16
asking, did you --
17
MR.
:
Have I heard that --
18
MR.
: -- did you hear --
19
MR.
: -- 4:00 and 10:00 --
20
MR.
: -- that (Indiscernible
21
*01:18:33) --
22
MR.
: -- wasn't done?
23
MR.
: Right.
24
MR.
: No.
25
MR.
:
Now, do lieutenants sign
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the counts or the rounds?
2
MR.
: The rounds. Not the counts.
3
MR.
: So, what is the
4
lieutenants' responsibility for signing the
5
round sheets?
6
MR.
: Making sure they're in
7
compliance with the policy.
8
MR.
: All right. And do they
9
have to - is there any way for them to verify
10
if the rounds were actually done?
11
MR.
Hmm. No. Unless you're
12
doing a - checking a video.
13
MR.
: You just - is what you do
14
is just to make sure that the - it's actually
15
filled out?
16
MR.
: Correctly.
17
MR.
: Correctly filled out? All
18
right. I'm going to - I apologize for this,
19
it's gotten a little longer - so, I'm going to
20
show you. What is this that I'm showing you?
21
MR.
: It's a round sheet.
22
MR.
: All right. And what is
23
the round sheet from?
24
MR.
: The 9th.
25
MR.
: The 9th. Did you have
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anything - well, as the activities' lieutenant
2
- would of you had anything to do with signing
3
off on any of these?
4
MR.
:
Yeah.
5
MR.
:
Which ones would of you
6
signed off on?
7
MR.
:
Day watch.
8
MR.
: Okay. And are you on
9
that? Did you sign any of that?
10
MR.
:
Yeah.
11
MR.
:
Where is your signature?
12
MR.
: On the day shift.
13
MR.
: So, that's your actual
14
signature?
15
MR.
:
Yeah.
16
MR.
:
Is that for the SHU?
17
MR.
: Yeah.
18
MR.
:
Who else signed that?
19
MR.
: The officer.
20
MR.
:
Which officer?
21
MR.
: I'm not sure.
22
MR.
:
You can't tell by looking
23
at that?
24
MR.
: No.
25
MR.
: All right. And around
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what time would of you signed that? Do you
2
know?
3
MR.
: Some time on my shift.
4
MR.
: All right. So, does that
5
indicate that you would have, then, conducted a
6
round in the SHU?
7
MR.
: I'm not sure.
8
MR.
: Would of you signed that
9
in the SHU?
10
MR.
: Honestly, I'm not sure.
11
MR.
: How else would of you
12
gotten it?
13
MR.
: I'm not sure.
14
MR.
: So, is the SHU sheet ever
15
sent outside of the SHU for the lieutenant to
16
sign?
17
MR.
: I'm not sure. I can't recall
18
on this day.
19
MR.
: But what I'm asking is,
20
like, have you ever signed one of these round
21
sheets outside of the SHU?
22
MR.
: I'm not sure.
23
MR.
: Or is it typically that
24
the lieutenant would sign the sheet in the SHU?
25
Because aren't they maintained in the SHU?
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MR.
: Typically, that's what would
2
happen.
3
MR.
: So, typically, you would
4
have signed this in the SHU. Correct?
5
MR.
: Yeah.
6
MR.
: And would of you signed
7
this after the last one was filled out? I'm
8
assuming they wouldn't fill one out after you
9
signed it, would they?
10
11
12
2:07. Wouldn't that typically mean that you
13
would have been there at least 2:00?
14
MR.
: I'm not sure.
15
MR.
: But by looking at this
16
document, does that indicate to you, that if
17
you signed it, you would have signed it? Do you
18
ever sign -. Are these continued to be filled
19
out after the - sorry - after the lieutenant
20
signs it?
21
MR.
: Yeah.
22
MR.
: So, even for day watch
23
right here?
24
MR.
: Yeah.
25
MR.
: So, you can sign it at
MR.
: I'm not sure.
MR.
: So, this one says 2:05,
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any point during this, and then, they continue
2
to fill it out?
3
MR.
:
Yeah.
4
MR.
: All right. And that's
5
what I'm asking. How does that work? I don't
6
know. So, I'm asking.
7
MR.
: I mean, it's eight hours.
8
MR.
:
So,