{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"startTime":73.63,"endTime":75.47,"body":"3 million pages of evidence."},{"startTime":76.27,"endTime":78.66999999999999,"body":"Thousands of unsealed flight logs."},{"startTime":79.14999999999999,"endTime":84.03,"body":"Millions of data points, names, themes and timelines connected."},{"startTime":84.83,"endTime":88.91,"body":"You are listening to the Epstein Files, the world's first"},{"startTime":89.07,"endTime":94.14999999999999,"body":"AI native investigation into the case that traditional journalism simply"},{"startTime":94.14999999999999,"endTime":95.22999999999999,"body":"could not handle."},{"startTime":99.71,"endTime":101.22999999999999,"body":"Welcome back to the Epstein Files."},{"startTime":101.38999999999999,"endTime":104.27,"body":"I'm looking at a document from the Gojefta release."},{"startTime":104.75,"endTime":107.22999999999999,"body":"It's a press release from the United States Attorney's Office,"},{"startTime":107.47,"endTime":108.75,"body":"Southern District of New York."},{"startTime":109.07,"endTime":110.63,"body":"The letterhead reads, U.S."},{"startTime":110.63,"endTime":111.63,"body":"attorney Jeffrey S."},{"startTime":111.63,"endTime":112.19,"body":"Behrman."},{"startTime":112.66999999999999,"endTime":114.91,"body":"The title, Statement of Manhattan U.S."},{"startTime":114.91,"endTime":117.14999999999999,"body":"attorney on the death of defendant Jeffrey Epstein."},{"startTime":117.22999999999999,"endTime":120.19,"body":"The date on the document is Friday, August 9, 2019."},{"startTime":120.59,"endTime":123.55,"body":"Jeffrey Epstein was found dead on Saturday, August 10."},{"startTime":123.69,"endTime":126.77,"body":"And that's the immediate unavoidable discrepancy."},{"startTime":126.77,"endTime":128.93,"body":"The official timeline, you know, the one established by the"},{"startTime":128.93,"endTime":131.13,"body":"Bureau of Prisons and later confirmed in DOJ reports."},{"startTime":131.53,"endTime":134.20999999999998,"body":"It states that Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive in his"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":134.20999999999998,"endTime":138.25,"body":"30am on"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":138.25,"endTime":140.64999999999998,"body":"Saturday morning, Saturday, August 10, 2019."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":140.64999999999998,"endTime":142.25,"body":"And yet I am holding a document."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":142.25,"endTime":148.682,"body":"Its source ID is EFTE 000013180, which is dated August"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":148.778,"endTime":149.69,"body":"9, 2019."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":149.85,"endTime":150.25,"body":"Friday."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":150.25,"endTime":152.45999999999998,"body":"A full 24 hours earlier Friday."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":152.45999999999998,"endTime":154.62,"body":"So our mission here is to reconcile a document dated"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":154.62,"endTime":156.74,"body":"Friday with an event that occurred on Saturday."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":156.89999999999998,"endTime":157.89999999999998,"body":"We're not going to speculate."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":157.89999999999998,"endTime":159.22,"body":"We are auditing the paper trail."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":159.3,"endTime":163.38,"body":"And we have to, in any forensic audit, a date"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":163.38,"endTime":167.14,"body":"discrepancy of this magnitude on a document this critical."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":167.14,"endTime":171.06,"body":"I mean, a death announcement for a federal prisoner of"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":171.06,"endTime":174.26,"body":"this profile, it's a primary deviation."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":174.26,"endTime":175.18,"body":"It's a red flag."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":175.18,"endTime":178.3,"body":"It requires a full stop and line by line reconciliation."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":178.3,"endTime":178.86,"body":"Absolutely."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":178.86,"endTime":182.78,"body":"Okay, so let's begin with Section one, Exhibit A, the"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":182.78,"endTime":183.78,"body":"document itself."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":183.78,"endTime":186.42,"body":"I want to be very, very precise about what we're"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":186.42,"endTime":186.78,"body":"looking at."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":186.78,"endTime":191.38,"body":"This is file EFT00013180."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":191.38,"endTime":193.94,"body":"I was released as part of the Department of Justice's"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":193.94,"endTime":196.539,"body":"compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":196.539,"endTime":198.06,"body":"So this is an official government record."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":198.14,"endTime":199.34,"body":"Visually, what are we looking at?"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":199.34,"endTime":201.01999999999998,"body":"It looks like a standard press release draft."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":201.01999999999998,"endTime":201.29999999999998,"body":"It is."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":201.29999999999998,"endTime":202.26,"body":"It has all the hallmarks."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":202.26,"endTime":203.42,"body":"You see the official seal?"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":203.5,"endTime":207.23,"body":"Top left corner, it reads, United States Attorney's Office, Southern"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":207.23,"endTime":208.07,"body":"District of New York."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":208.07,"endTime":209.71,"body":"And right below that, the name of the U.S."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":209.71,"endTime":210.54999999999998,"body":"attorney at the time."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":210.54999999999998,"endTime":211.07,"body":"Jeffrey S."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":211.07,"endTime":211.47,"body":"Burma."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":211.47,"endTime":211.98999999999998,"body":"Correct."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":212.07,"endTime":215.26999999999998,"body":"Then we have the standard capitalized header for immediate release."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":215.75,"endTime":218.718,"body":"And directly beneath that, the date, Friday, Aug."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":218.808,"endTime":219.67,"body":"9, 2019."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":219.75,"endTime":222.709,"body":"And just to anchor the geography of the document for"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":222.709,"endTime":225.03,"body":"you, below that date, you have the contact information."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":225.43,"endTime":228.31,"body":"James Margolin, Don Dearden, Nicholas Bias."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":228.47,"endTime":228.87,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":229.03,"endTime":232.35,"body":"The public information officers for the SDNY this isn't a"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":232.35,"endTime":234.23,"body":"random memo typed up by an intern."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":234.54999999999998,"endTime":234.82999999999998,"body":"It."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":234.9,"endTime":238.01999999999998,"body":"It's a formatted prepared statement ready to go."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":238.26,"endTime":240.7,"body":"Let's move from the header to the body text because"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":240.7,"endTime":243.29999999999998,"body":"this is where the timeline completely collapses on itself."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":243.54,"endTime":245.54,"body":"I want to read the first sentence verbatim."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":245.54,"endTime":246.01999999999998,"body":"Quote."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":247.29999999999998,"endTime":250.66,"body":"Earlier this morning, the Manhattan Correctional center confirmed that Jeffrey"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":250.66,"endTime":253.29999999999998,"body":"Epstein, who faced charities brought by this office of engaging"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":253.29999999999998,"endTime":256.74,"body":"in the sex trafficking of minors, had been found unresponsive"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":256.74,"endTime":259.7,"body":"in his cell and pronounced dead shortly thereafter."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":259.86,"endTime":260.46000000000004,"body":"End quote."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":260.46000000000004,"endTime":261.38,"body":"Okay, stop right there."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":261.62,"endTime":265.02,"body":"Earlier this morning, if this document was typed, drafted, created"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":265.02,"endTime":268.9,"body":"on Friday, August 9, as the date header explicitly states,"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":268.98,"endTime":271.46000000000004,"body":"then earlier this morning can only refer to one thing."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":271.46000000000004,"endTime":273.14,"body":"The morning of Friday, August 9th."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":273.29999999999995,"endTime":273.65999999999997,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":273.65999999999997,"endTime":276.74,"body":"The logical question then is, was Jeffrey Epstein dead on"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":276.74,"endTime":278.26,"body":"the morning of Friday, August 9?"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":278.26,"endTime":280.82,"body":"And the documented answer is no, he was not."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":281.22,"endTime":284.1,"body":"On Friday, August 9th, Jeffrey Epstein was alive."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":284.58,"endTime":286.65999999999997,"body":"We know from other records he was meeting with his"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":286.65999999999997,"endTime":287.5,"body":"legal team that day."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":287.5,"endTime":289.65999999999997,"body":"He was in his cell in the special housing unit"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":289.65999999999997,"endTime":291.9,"body":"of the McCarthy, very much alive."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":292.29999999999995,"endTime":295.38,"body":"The death event, the actual discovery of the body that"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":295.38,"endTime":299.26,"body":"occurred the following morning, Saturday, August 10th."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":299.41999999999996,"endTime":302.1,"body":"So we have an official government document that claims a"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 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6","startTime":314.02,"endTime":315.9,"body":"It's the past perfect tense."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":315.98,"endTime":318.14,"body":"It describes a completed action in the past."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":318.22,"endTime":319.86,"body":"It is not written in the future tense."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":319.86,"endTime":321.18,"body":"It's not a conditional statement."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":321.34000000000003,"endTime":324.38,"body":"It doesn't say, in the event of the defendant's death,"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":324.53999999999996,"endTime":326.38,"body":"this statement shall be released."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 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continues."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":656.22,"endTime":658.94,"body":"To those brave young women who have already come forward"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":659.02,"endTime":661.1,"body":"and to the many others who have yet to do"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":661.1,"endTime":664.5,"body":"so, let me reiterate that we remain committed to standing"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":664.5,"endTime":664.94,"body":"for you."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":665.22,"endTime":668.1,"body":"And our investigation of the conduct charged in the indictment,"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":668.1,"endTime":671.14,"body":"which included a conspiracy count, remains ongoing."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":671.3000000000001,"endTime":674.62,"body":"And that entire paragraph is functionally identical to what was"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":674.62,"endTime":675.5400000000001,"body":"released on Saturday."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":676.1,"endTime":679.26,"body":"The focus is on reassuring the victims and signaling that"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":679.26,"endTime":681.38,"body":"the broader conspiracy case will continue."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":681.62,"endTime":683.62,"body":"But think about the utility of that statement."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 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6","startTime":709.11,"endTime":710.87,"body":"conveying the medical facts of the death."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":711.19,"endTime":714.07,"body":"The priority is managing the public and legal fallout."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":714.39,"endTime":717.27,"body":"It is a document designed to mitigate blowback from the"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":717.27,"endTime":718.3100000000001,"body":"moment the news breaks."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":718.77,"endTime":721.69,"body":"And it was dated 24 hours before the body was"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":721.69,"endTime":722.21,"body":"even found."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 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going"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":739.0500000000001,"endTime":741.0500000000001,"body":"on here, we have to look beyond the paperwork."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":741.0500000000001,"endTime":743.01,"body":"We need to look at what happened on the ground"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":743.1700000000001,"endTime":745.09,"body":"immediately after the body was found."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":745.7,"endTime":747.5,"body":"This wasn't just about managing a press release."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":747.5,"endTime":750.02,"body":"It was about managing the physical event itself."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 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approximately 6","startTime":934.39,"endTime":935.59,"body":"Total narrative management."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":936.07,"endTime":939.03,"body":"They were managing the optics of his death before they"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":939.03,"endTime":941.3100000000001,"body":"even had a confirmed cause of death from the medical"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":941.3100000000001,"endTime":941.99,"body":"examiner."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":942.1,"endTime":943.7,"body":"They were managing the entire event."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":944.02,"endTime":947.58,"body":"And the August 9th press release draft suggests they began"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":947.58,"endTime":949.3000000000001,"body":"managing it as early as Friday."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":949.62,"endTime":951.94,"body":"So let's look at the environment where this event took"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":951.94,"endTime":956.02,"body":"place, the operational environment at the mcc."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":956.66,"endTime":960.1,"body":"We need to contextualize how this death became physically possible"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":960.1,"endTime":960.98,"body":"in the first place."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":961.3000000000001,"endTime":963.62,"body":"For this, we're referencing two primary sources."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":963.78,"endTime":966.58,"body":"The indictment against Tobin Oel and Michael Thomas, the two"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":966.58,"endTime":969.34,"body":"guards on duty that night, and the subsequent DOJ."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":969.34,"endTime":973.75,"body":"Office of the Inspector General report number 23085 set the"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":973.75,"endTime":974.6700000000001,"body":"timeline for us."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":975.15,"endTime":978.4300000000001,"body":"The night of Friday, August 9th, into the morning of"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":978.4300000000001,"endTime":979.71,"body":"Saturday, August 10th."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":979.7900000000001,"endTime":980.35,"body":"Okay."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":980.59,"endTime":983.95,"body":"Tova Knoll and Michael Thomas were the two correctional officers"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":983.95,"endTime":986.83,"body":"assigned to the overnight shift in the special Housing unit,"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":986.83,"endTime":987.87,"body":"the shu."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":988.03,"endTime":990.03,"body":"This is the most secure part of the jail."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":990.6700000000001,"endTime":993.07,"body":"Jeffrey Epstein was in cell A3."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":993.07,"endTime":996.03,"body":"And what were their specific documented failures?"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":996.03,"endTime":1000.35,"body":"The indictment charges them with conspiracy and crucially with falsifying"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":1000.35,"endTime":1001.22,"body":"federal records."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":1001.85,"endTime":1004.33,"body":"Specifically the SHU count slips."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":1004.49,"endTime":1007.2900000000001,"body":"Guards in that unit are required to physically walk the"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":1007.2900000000001,"endTime":1010.09,"body":"tier and check on each inmate at 30 minute intervals."},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":1010.09,"endTime":1012.37,"body":"And on the night of August 9th, what did they"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":1012.37,"endTime":1012.65,"body":"do?"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":1012.73,"endTime":1015.45,"body":"The indictment states, and this is backed by video evidence,"},{"speaker":"cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center at approximately 6","startTime":1015.77,"endTime":1019.21,"body":"that no rounds were conducted for approximately eight consecutive hours"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1019.53,"endTime":1023.9300000000001,"body":"30am Saturday morning when"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1023.9300000000001,"endTime":1024.85,"body":"Epstein was found."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1024.85,"endTime":1026.25,"body":"An eight hour gap."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1026.4099999999999,"endTime":1028.81,"body":"Total darkness in a high security federal unit."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1028.81,"endTime":1029.29,"body":"Correct."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1029.29,"endTime":1031.01,"body":"But if you were to look at the official records,"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1031.01,"endTime":1032.73,"body":"the logbooks, they were filled out."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1033.1,"endTime":1036.1,"body":"Noel and Thomas signed multiple entries claiming they had performed"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1036.1,"endTime":1037.1,"body":"the required counts."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1037.18,"endTime":1039.22,"body":"So the paperwork said, all is well."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1039.22,"endTime":1040.22,"body":"Procedure followed."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1040.3,"endTime":1042.3799999999999,"body":"The reality was, nobody is looking."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1042.54,"endTime":1043.34,"body":"Precisely."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1043.58,"endTime":1046.74,"body":"They falsified a federal record to cover an eight hour"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1046.74,"endTime":1049.5,"body":"gap in surveillance on the most high profile inmate in"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1049.5,"endTime":1049.8999999999999,"body":"the country."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1050.06,"endTime":1050.86,"body":"But hold on."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1050.94,"endTime":1052.78,"body":"There are cameras in the shu."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1052.78,"endTime":1055.1399999999999,"body":"Even if the guards are asleep, the cameras are still"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1055.1399999999999,"endTime":1055.6599999999999,"body":"recording."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1055.6599999999999,"endTime":1056.86,"body":"That's the backup system."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1057.02,"endTime":1058.62,"body":"And this is why we turn to the DOJ."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1058.62,"endTime":1061.36,"body":"OIG report 23085."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1061.76,"endTime":1065.28,"body":"The Inspector General's office conducted a deep analysis of the"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1065.28,"endTime":1068.8799999999999,"body":"video surveillance system in the SHU for that specific night."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1068.96,"endTime":1070.0,"body":"And what did they find?"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1070.08,"endTime":1074.96,"body":"The report confirmed specific and let's say, convenient camera malfunctions."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1074.96,"endTime":1076.3999999999999,"body":"There were hard drive failures."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1076.8,"endTime":1078.92,"body":"The camera system that should have had a clear view"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1078.92,"endTime":1081.36,"body":"of Epstein Celtir had recording gaps."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1081.36,"endTime":1082.96,"body":"The data was unrecoverable."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1083.04,"endTime":1084.1599999999999,"body":"So let me get this straight."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1084.1599999999999,"endTime":1085.3999999999999,"body":"You have the human failure."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1085.3999999999999,"endTime":1088.74,"body":"Two guards falling asleep or surfing the Internet and then"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1088.74,"endTime":1090.94,"body":"faking their logs for an entire eight hour shift?"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1090.94,"endTime":1091.3799999999999,"body":"Yes."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1091.46,"endTime":1094.1799999999998,"body":"And simultaneously you have a technical failure."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1094.26,"endTime":1097.9399999999998,"body":"The specific camera system that would have recorded everything malfunctions."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1097.9399999999998,"endTime":1099.2199999999998,"body":"That's what the record shows."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1099.4599999999998,"endTime":1103.54,"body":"What is the statistical probability of these two independent security"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1103.54,"endTime":1105.62,"body":"systems failing at the exact same time?"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1105.6999999999998,"endTime":1108.86,"body":"Well, in a systems engineering context, this is what you'd"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1108.86,"endTime":1110.4199999999998,"body":"call a catastrophic alignment."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1110.8999999999999,"endTime":1114.02,"body":"Redundancy is built into high security systems for a reason."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1114.1,"endTime":1116.02,"body":"It's to prevent this very scenario."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1116.649,"endTime":1119.049,"body":"If the human fails, the camera captures it."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1119.049,"endTime":1121.6889999999999,"body":"If the camera fails, the human is supposed to observe"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1121.6889999999999,"endTime":1121.9289999999999,"body":"it."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1121.9289999999999,"endTime":1123.9289999999999,"body":"But here, both fail."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1123.9289999999999,"endTime":1127.4889999999998,"body":"For both to fail simultaneously during the precise eight hour"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1127.4889999999998,"endTime":1130.609,"body":"window that ends with a high profile death, creates a"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1130.609,"endTime":1134.329,"body":"statistical anomaly that is, to put it mildly, difficult to"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1134.329,"endTime":1136.089,"body":"attribute to mere random chance."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1136.089,"endTime":1138.4489999999998,"body":"It creates a perfect opportunity window."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1138.4489999999998,"endTime":1140.769,"body":"An Eight hour blind spot in a place that's supposed"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1140.769,"endTime":1141.7289999999998,"body":"to have no blind spot."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1141.7289999999998,"endTime":1143.289,"body":"Now we have to layer in one more piece of"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1143.289,"endTime":1143.769,"body":"context."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1144.28,"endTime":1146.04,"body":"His suicide watch status."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1146.04,"endTime":1146.4399999999998,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1146.4399999999998,"endTime":1147.3999999999999,"body":"This is critical."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1147.56,"endTime":1151.52,"body":"On July 23, 2019, about two weeks earlier, Jeffrey Epstein"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1151.52,"endTime":1154.1599999999999,"body":"was found in his cell, semi conscious with injuries to"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1154.1599999999999,"endTime":1154.76,"body":"his neck."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1154.84,"endTime":1157.0,"body":"He claimed his cellmate had assaulted him."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1157.0,"endTime":1160.84,"body":"The MCC administration treated it as a potential suicide attempt"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1160.84,"endTime":1163.56,"body":"and he was placed on suicide watch immediately."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1163.8799999999999,"endTime":1168.6799999999998,"body":"Suicide watch means 247 constant observation by a dedicated officer."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1168.76,"endTime":1171.28,"body":"The light stays on in the cell and officer takes"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1171.28,"endTime":1173.08,"body":"notes on his behavior every 15 minutes."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1173.4099999999999,"endTime":1174.6899999999998,"body":"It's maximum surveillance."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1174.77,"endTime":1176.85,"body":"But he wasn't on suicide watch when he died."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1176.85,"endTime":1177.2099999999998,"body":"No."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1177.2099999999998,"endTime":1181.01,"body":"On July 29, 2019, just six days after that incident,"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1181.09,"endTime":1184.49,"body":"Epstein was removed from suicide watch by MCC officials and"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1184.49,"endTime":1186.9299999999998,"body":"he was put back in the SHU, a regular cell."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1186.9299999999998,"endTime":1187.49,"body":"He was."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1187.6499999999999,"endTime":1190.6499999999999,"body":"And remarkably, on August 9, he was placed in a"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1190.6499999999999,"endTime":1191.4099999999999,"body":"cell alone."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1191.6499999999999,"endTime":1194.29,"body":"His cellmate, who he had had since being taken off"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1194.29,"endTime":1195.8899999999999,"body":"watch, was transferred out that day."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1195.8899999999999,"endTime":1199.33,"body":"August 9th, Friday, August 9th, the date on the press"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1199.33,"endTime":1199.6499999999999,"body":"release."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1199.6499999999999,"endTime":1202.1299999999999,"body":"The sequence of events is absolutely critical to understand."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1202.6899999999998,"endTime":1205.4099999999999,"body":"July 29, he is removed from constant suicide watch."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1205.4099999999999,"endTime":1208.6899999999998,"body":"August 9, his cellmate is transferred out, leaving him alone."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1209.1699999999998,"endTime":1209.57,"body":"The U.S."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1209.57,"endTime":1212.1299999999999,"body":"attorney's office drafts a press release announcing his death."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1212.1299999999999,"endTime":1214.57,"body":"Night of August 9th, the guards stop their checks and"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1214.57,"endTime":1215.33,"body":"the cameras fail."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1215.4099999999999,"endTime":1217.53,"body":"Morning of August 10, he is found dead."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1217.53,"endTime":1220.53,"body":"The removal from suicide watch created the possibility of death."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1220.61,"endTime":1223.33,"body":"It removed the 247 human surveillance."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1223.49,"endTime":1224.01,"body":"Correct."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1224.01,"endTime":1226.6499999999999,"body":"The transfer of his cellmate created the privacy for that"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1226.6499999999999,"endTime":1227.49,"body":"death to occur."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1227.73,"endTime":1229.1699999999998,"body":"No witness inside the room."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1229.35,"endTime":1233.1499999999999,"body":"The sleeping guards and the broken cameras created the opportunity"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1233.1499999999999,"endTime":1233.83,"body":"for that death."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1234.1499999999999,"endTime":1235.59,"body":"No witnesses outside the room."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1235.59,"endTime":1239.75,"body":"And the press release dated August 9th suggests the anticipation"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1239.75,"endTime":1240.3899999999999,"body":"of that death."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1240.6299999999999,"endTime":1243.27,"body":"That is the convergence of the data points you have"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1243.27,"endTime":1247.83,"body":"the administrative decisions, the physical opportunity and the bureaucratic preparation"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1247.9099999999999,"endTime":1249.9099999999999,"body":"all aligning within a 24 hour period."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1250.07,"endTime":1251.83,"body":"Let's talk about the man whose name is on that"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1251.83,"endTime":1252.3899999999999,"body":"preparation."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1252.55,"endTime":1255.1899999999998,"body":"Section 5, the signatory U.S."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1255.1899999999998,"endTime":1256.4299999999998,"body":"attorney Jeffrey S."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1256.4299999999998,"endTime":1256.9399999999998,"body":"Berman."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1257.09,"endTime":1259.6499999999999,"body":"Jeffrey Berman, a very respected figure."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1259.73,"endTime":1261.05,"body":"He was appointed as the U.S."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1261.05,"endTime":1263.01,"body":"attorney for the Southern District of New York."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1263.09,"endTime":1266.09,"body":"The SDNY is often called the Sovereign District of New"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1266.09,"endTime":1269.77,"body":"York because of its historical independence and its critical jurisdiction"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1269.77,"endTime":1272.4499999999998,"body":"over Wall street and high level public corruption cases."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1272.61,"endTime":1274.73,"body":"And his name is right there on the letterhead of"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1274.73,"endTime":1281.4099999999999,"body":"EFT 00000131 a zero statement of Manhattan US Attorney he"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1281.4099999999999,"endTime":1283.33,"body":"was the lead prosecutor on the Epstein case."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1283.73,"endTime":1287.37,"body":"His office, his AUSAs brought the charges against Epstein in"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1287.37,"endTime":1287.81,"body":"2019."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1288.28,"endTime":1289.6399999999999,"body":"So what happened to Jeffrey Berman?"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1289.6399999999999,"endTime":1292.28,"body":"We have to Fast forward to June 2020."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1292.4399999999998,"endTime":1295.28,"body":"This is less than a year after Epstein's death, while"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1295.28,"endTime":1299.32,"body":"investigations into co conspirators were presumably still very active, on"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1299.32,"endTime":1304.279,"body":"Friday, June 19, 2020, Attorney General Bill Barr's office issued"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1304.279,"endTime":1306.4399999999998,"body":"a press release, a late night press release."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1306.6,"endTime":1309.32,"body":"It stated that Jeffrey Berman was stepping down from his"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1309.32,"endTime":1310.9199999999998,"body":"position at the sdny."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1311.08,"endTime":1311.9599999999998,"body":"Stepping down."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1312.4399999999998,"endTime":1314.9199999999998,"body":"That sounds like a standard voluntary resignation."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1315.0,"endTime":1317.08,"body":"It sounds like it, except it wasn't."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1317.33,"endTime":1321.01,"body":"Just minutes after Barr's announcement, Jeffrey Berman issued his own"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1321.09,"endTime":1322.29,"body":"extraordinary statement."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1322.37,"endTime":1323.1299999999999,"body":"What did he say?"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1323.1299999999999,"endTime":1325.49,"body":"He said, and I'm quoting, I learned in a press"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1325.49,"endTime":1328.2099999999998,"body":"release from the Attorney General tonight that I was stepping"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1328.2099999999998,"endTime":1329.9699999999998,"body":"down as United States Attorney."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1329.9699999999998,"endTime":1332.49,"body":"I have not resigned and have no intention of resigning,"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1332.49,"endTime":1333.1699999999998,"body":"end quote."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1333.1699999999998,"endTime":1334.4499999999998,"body":"The public standoff."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1334.53,"endTime":1336.85,"body":"The Attorney General of the United states says a U.S."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1336.85,"endTime":1337.81,"body":"attorney is leaving."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1337.81,"endTime":1338.49,"body":"And the U.S."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1338.49,"endTime":1340.4099999999999,"body":"attorney publicly says, no, I'm not."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1340.4099999999999,"endTime":1342.85,"body":"It was unprecedented in modern DOJ history."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1342.9299999999998,"endTime":1343.8899999999999,"body":"A direct challenge."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1343.8899999999999,"endTime":1346.6899999999998,"body":"So what happened the next day, Saturday, June 20, 2020,"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1346.9699999999998,"endTime":1348.9299999999998,"body":"Bill Barr sent a formal letter to Berman."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1348.9299999999998,"endTime":1351.81,"body":"It stated, quote, because you have declared that you have"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1351.81,"endTime":1354.1299999999999,"body":"no intention of resigning, I have asked the President to"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1354.1299999999999,"endTime":1355.37,"body":"remove you as of today."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1355.4499999999998,"endTime":1357.61,"body":"And he has done so, end quote."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1357.61,"endTime":1358.73,"body":"So he was fired."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1359.4499999999998,"endTime":1360.6899999999998,"body":"Forcefully removed."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1360.6899999999998,"endTime":1362.6499999999999,"body":"He was summarily removed from his post."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1362.81,"endTime":1365.53,"body":"President Trump at the time tried to distance himself, saying,"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1365.53,"endTime":1367.05,"body":"that's all up to the Attorney General."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1367.29,"endTime":1370.49,"body":"But the removal was executed under presidential authority."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1370.8899999999999,"endTime":1373.37,"body":"Why does this matter to the Epstein file we're auditing?"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1374.01,"endTime":1377.49,"body":"It matters because Berman was the signatory on the anomalous"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1377.49,"endTime":1378.9699999999998,"body":"August 9th draft."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1378.9699999999998,"endTime":1381.85,"body":"He was the man whose office was overseeing the entire"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1381.85,"endTime":1386.25,"body":"investigation into Epstein and more importantly, into Epstein's alleged co"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1386.25,"endTime":1386.8899999999999,"body":"conspirators."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1387.37,"endTime":1390.4099999999999,"body":"His removal was sudden, it was forceful, and it was"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1390.4099999999999,"endTime":1391.4499999999998,"body":"publicly contested."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1391.77,"endTime":1393.81,"body":"Now, to be clear, we cannot claim he was fired"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1393.81,"endTime":1397.53,"body":"because of document EPO00013180."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1397.61,"endTime":1398.61,"body":"No, we absolutely cannot."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1398.61,"endTime":1401.61,"body":"We do not have a document, a memo or testimony"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1401.61,"endTime":1404.73,"body":"linking his firing directly to the specific press release that"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1404.73,"endTime":1404.9699999999998,"body":"would."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1405.99,"endTime":1409.23,"body":"But we can state as a documented fact that the"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1409.23,"endTime":1412.1899999999998,"body":"man responsible for the investigation, the man whose name is"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1412.1899999999998,"endTime":1415.1899999999998,"body":"on this anomalous draft, was purged from the Department of"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1415.1899999999998,"endTime":1418.31,"body":"Justice in a highly irregular and confrontational manner."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1418.7099999999998,"endTime":1420.6299999999999,"body":"That is the documented fact pattern."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1420.6299999999999,"endTime":1421.87,"body":"He didn't leave quietly."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1421.87,"endTime":1424.1899999999998,"body":"He was forced out while his office's work on this"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1424.1899999999998,"endTime":1425.4299999999998,"body":"case was still ongoing."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1425.59,"endTime":1427.35,"body":"Let's move to our final section."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1427.4299999999998,"endTime":1429.51,"body":"Section six, the audit."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1429.51,"endTime":1430.1499999999999,"body":"Conclusion."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1430.6299999999999,"endTime":1432.4399999999998,"body":"We need to synthesize these documents."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1432.4399999999998,"endTime":1438.9599999999998,"body":"We started this with EFT00000131, the dead a day early"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1439.04,"endTime":1439.56,"body":"document."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1439.56,"endTime":1442.36,"body":"And after reviewing the other evidence, we really have three"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1442.36,"endTime":1444.3999999999999,"body":"competing theories to explain its existence."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1444.6399999999999,"endTime":1447.56,"body":"Theory one is the error theory, it was just a"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1447.56,"endTime":1447.9599999999998,"body":"typo."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1447.9599999999998,"endTime":1449.6,"body":"And in isolation, that's plausible."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1449.6,"endTime":1450.56,"body":"People make mistakes."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1450.6399999999999,"endTime":1453.1599999999999,"body":"But it requires us to either ignore the phrase earlier"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1453.1599999999999,"endTime":1456.36,"body":"this morning, which creates a logical contradiction, or it just"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1456.36,"endTime":1457.36,"body":"seems insufficient."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1457.37,"endTime":1459.48,"body":"And given the context of everything else that went wrong"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1459.48,"endTime":1462.7199999999998,"body":"that night, Theory two, the content theory, which is that"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1462.7199999999998,"endTime":1464.56,"body":"the document is factually accurate."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1464.7199999999998,"endTime":1467.6,"body":"If the document is accurate as written, if it was"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1467.76,"endTime":1470.76,"body":"truly written on Friday and earlier this morning, refers to"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1470.76,"endTime":1473.56,"body":"Friday morning, then it's describing a death that happened on"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1473.56,"endTime":1473.9189999999999,"body":"Friday."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1474.0,"endTime":1476.08,"body":"But we have a body discovered on Saturday."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1476.56,"endTime":1480.36,"body":"This theory creates a conflict with the physical reality presented"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1480.36,"endTime":1481.6799999999998,"body":"by the official timeline."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1481.76,"endTime":1484.1999999999998,"body":"It does, unless you want to entertain the idea that"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1484.1999999999998,"endTime":1487.83,"body":"the death happened Friday and was concealed for 24 hours,"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1487.83,"endTime":1489.87,"body":"which we have no documentation to spoil."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1489.87,"endTime":1492.87,"body":"Which leaves us with theory three, the preparation theory."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1493.03,"endTime":1495.87,"body":"And this theory seems to be the most consistent with"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1495.87,"endTime":1497.75,"body":"the totality of the forensic evidence."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1498.1499999999999,"endTime":1501.9099999999999,"body":"The document was a template, a shell created on Friday."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1502.4699999999998,"endTime":1505.07,"body":"The thinking would have been, he is going to die"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1505.07,"endTime":1505.7099999999998,"body":"this weekend."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1505.7099999999998,"endTime":1506.87,"body":"We need to be ready."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1506.87,"endTime":1510.11,"body":"Write the release, get it approved by Berman, leave the"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1510.11,"endTime":1511.73,"body":"cause of death by blank for now."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1511.81,"endTime":1515.49,"body":"And if this theory holds, it implies foreknowledge."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1515.57,"endTime":1518.73,"body":"It implies that the death was a known probability, a"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1518.73,"endTime":1521.9699999999998,"body":"probability so high that it warranted drafting an official press"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1521.9699999999998,"endTime":1524.6899999999998,"body":"release on US Government letterhead a day in advance."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1524.77,"endTime":1527.33,"body":"And when you combine that single document with the removal"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1527.33,"endTime":1530.37,"body":"of his cellmate on that same day and the earlier"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1530.4499999999998,"endTime":1535.37,"body":"removal from suicide watch against recommendations and the simultaneous failure"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1535.37,"endTime":1538.1299999999999,"body":"of the guards and the simultaneous failure of the cameras,"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1538.1299999999999,"endTime":1542.34,"body":"and then the highly coordinated decoy body operation, the pattern"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1542.34,"endTime":1545.78,"body":"begins to shift away from a series of unfortunate negligent"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1545.78,"endTime":1548.58,"body":"acts and towards something that looks more like management."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1549.3,"endTime":1550.74,"body":"Negligence is random."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1550.8999999999999,"endTime":1552.34,"body":"Negligence is sloppy."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1552.5,"endTime":1553.8999999999999,"body":"This wasn't just sloppy."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1553.8999999999999,"endTime":1557.26,"body":"The paperwork was ready, the decoy was ready, the statement"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1557.26,"endTime":1558.6599999999999,"body":"for the victims was ready."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1558.8999999999999,"endTime":1562.54,"body":"The omission of the phrase apparent suicide in that Friday"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1562.54,"endTime":1564.58,"body":"draft feels like the final key."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1564.8999999999999,"endTime":1565.62,"body":"It really does."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1565.78,"endTime":1568.1799999999998,"body":"It suggests the narrative hadn't been finalized yet."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1568.58,"endTime":1570.4599999999998,"body":"If the plan was always for this to be a"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1570.4599999999998,"endTime":1573.06,"body":"straightforward suicide, why not just type those two words on"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1573.06,"endTime":1573.3799999999999,"body":"Friday?"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1573.6999999999998,"endTime":1576.4199999999998,"body":"Their absence suggests that they were keeping their options open."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1576.5,"endTime":1578.3,"body":"Or that the cause of death was not yet a"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1578.3,"endTime":1579.26,"body":"settled part of the plan."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1579.26,"endTime":1579.9399999999998,"body":"Exactly."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1580.26,"endTime":1583.2199999999998,"body":"Found unresponsive is safe, it's clean."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1583.2199999999998,"endTime":1584.26,"body":"It buys you time."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1584.58,"endTime":1587.06,"body":"So what we're looking at is a system that failed"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1587.3799999999999,"endTime":1591.32,"body":"catastrophically to keep a man alive, but then succeeded perfectly"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1591.32,"endTime":1593.1599999999999,"body":"in managing the announcement of his death."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1593.3999999999999,"endTime":1597.3999999999999,"body":"The operational security around the life, the guards, the cameras,"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1597.3999999999999,"endTime":1599.3999999999999,"body":"the cellmate, it failed completely."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1599.48,"endTime":1602.4399999999998,"body":"The operational security around the news, the press release, the"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1602.4399999999998,"endTime":1603.32,"body":"decoy body."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1603.8,"endTime":1605.08,"body":"It worked perfectly."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1605.08,"endTime":1607.04,"body":"That is the fundamental discrepancy."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1607.04,"endTime":1609.84,"body":"The failures were all on the inside, protecting the inmate."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1609.84,"endTime":1612.9199999999998,"body":"The successes were all on the outside, controlling the story."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1613.0,"endTime":1615.9599999999998,"body":"Which is a pattern consistent with an objective to close"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1615.9599999999998,"endTime":1618.37,"body":"a file, not to protect an asset."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1618.37,"endTime":1619.73,"body":"We have audited the documents."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1619.9699999999998,"endTime":1623.81,"body":"EFT 00000131 Ageo exists."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1623.9699999999998,"endTime":1625.33,"body":"It is a part of the federal record."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1625.57,"endTime":1627.09,"body":"It is dated August 9th."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1627.1699999999998,"endTime":1629.9299999999998,"body":"And to this day no official explanation has ever been"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1629.9299999999998,"endTime":1632.4099999999999,"body":"offered by the Department of Justice for why a death"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1632.4099999999999,"endTime":1635.6499999999999,"body":"announcement exists dated a full day prior to the actual"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1635.6499999999999,"endTime":1635.9699999999998,"body":"death."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1636.05,"endTime":1639.25,"body":"The official timeline states Jeffrey Epstein died on August 10th."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1639.49,"endTime":1645.4299999999998,"body":"The Department of Justice's own paperwork document EFT 0000131A0 has"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1645.4299999999998,"endTime":1646.87,"body":"a start date of August 9th."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1646.87,"endTime":1649.7099999999998,"body":"And in a forensic audit, when the paperwork contradicts the"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1649.7099999999998,"endTime":1652.79,"body":"physical inventory, you do not adjust the paperwork to fit."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1652.87,"endTime":1654.3899999999999,"body":"You investigate the inventory."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1654.3899999999999,"endTime":1655.99,"body":"The documents raise the questions."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1655.99,"endTime":1657.03,"body":"They don't answer them."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1662.07,"endTime":1665.27,"body":"You have just heard an analysis of the official record."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1666.1499999999999,"endTime":1669.9099999999999,"body":"Every claim name and date mentioned in this episode is"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1669.9099999999999,"endTime":1671.1,"body":"backed by primary school."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1672.77,"endTime":1676.61,"body":"You can view the original files for yourself at Epsteinfiles"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1677.01,"endTime":1677.57,"body":"fm."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1678.37,"endTime":1681.4099999999999,"body":"If you value this data first approach to journalism."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1681.81,"endTime":1684.9299999999998,"body":"Please leave a five star review wherever you're listening right"},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1684.9299999999998,"endTime":1685.25,"body":"now."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1685.57,"endTime":1687.81,"body":"It helps keep this investigation visible."},{"speaker":"from roughly 10:30pm Friday night to 6","startTime":1688.29,"endTime":1689.73,"body":"We'll see you in the next file."}]}