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