From: To: Cc: " Subject: RE: Draft Email to Geoff re MCC Interviews Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:40:58 +0000 I have no other comments. Looks good, thanks. From: Sent: Monday, August 12, 2019 8:32 PM To: Cc: Subject: Re: Draft Email to Geoff re MCC Interviews Okay with me. Can you specify that Thomas denied over the phone that he was Thomas? Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2019, at 8:20 PM, wrote: Geoff, > 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 Lt. Lt.= 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, Lt. arrived at 5:30 a.m. to relieve the outgoing lieutenant, Lt. . At 6:33 a.m., Lt.= heard a radio call for medical staff at the SHU. Lt. IM responded to the SHU, where he saw Officer Noel, who said that Epstein had hung himself. Lt.= went into Epstein's cell, and Epstein was on the ground, on top of two mattresses, and Officer Thomas was performing CPR. Lt. then started CPR until medical staff came. Lt.= asked Officer Noel where Epstein's cellmate was, and she said he left, and that he didn't have one overnight. Lt.= told Officer Noel that she knew Epstein was supposed to have a cellmate, and Officer Noel stuttered, then said she didn't know. Officer Noel admitted to Lt.= that they did not conduct the 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. counts; and Officer Thomas said "we messed up" and "we didn't do the counts" and "it's not her fault." Lt.= was not aware the cameras were not working in SHU. Interview of Lt. Lt. has worked at the MCC since May 2019, but has a lengthy BOP career. He's the institution duty officer and has responsibilities relating to multiple units. Among other things, he helps inmates make telephone calls, including legal calls and calls from within the SHU. Lt. had