They have been told it is nowhere to be found.

Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

Attorneys for two men charged with multiple crimes from the night of the death of the billionaire pedophile asked for any security video from anywhere on that floor from a six hour window.

They have been told it is nowhere to be found.

Prison guards Tova Noel and Michael Thomas

Jeffrey Epstein

Surveillance footage taken during first Epstein suicide attempt missing

Surveillance footage recorded inside a Lower Manhattan prison at the time of Jeffrey Epstein’s first apparent suicide attempt has mysteriously gone missing, officials admitted Wednesday.

The footage was recorded outside the millionaire pedophile’s cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on July 23, when Epstein apparently tried to hang himself at the lockup.

Epstein was sharing the cell with Nick Tartaglione, a hulking former cop in Westchester County accused of killing four people in a botched drug deal.

Tartaglione’s lawyer had requested that the footage be preserved — but prosecutors admitted in a court hearing Wednesday that the footage has gone missing, the lawyer, Bruce Barket, said.

“I don’t know the details of how it was lost or destroyed or why it wasn’t retained when it should have been,” Barket said.

Barket has maintained Tartaglione came to Epstein’s aide and tried to alert the guards when the perv tried to commit suicide in the cell.

“We want to be sure that all the evidence is preserved to show that Nick behaved appropriately and even admirably that evening,” Barket said.

“We asked for all the video and photographic evidence to be preserved, specifically this surveillance video. Now it’s gone,” he added. – Source

Prison Guards Charged Over Jeffrey Epstein Death Are Scapegoats, Say Defense Attorneys And Twitter

Prosecutors say that two prison guards napped and surfed the internet, then lied about checking every half hour on convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein the night he died in the New York Metropolitan Correctional Center.

Defense attorneys for the prison guards, who have been criminally charged, say the state is trying to make a scapegoat out of their clients and blame them for systemic problems in the federal Bureau of Prisons that contributed to Epstein’s death.

The two guards, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, are charged with making false records and conspiracy to defraud the U.S., among others. Noel has been charged with five counts and Thomas with three. Each count carries a maximum five-year prison term. Both pleaded not guilty.

Both defendants have large group of supporters who gathered outside the courtroom last week as they were charged.

Suicide is the official cause of Epstein’s death in August while in custody, but the broken bones in his neck are more common in victims of homicide by strangulation than hanging, experts have said.

Prosecutors say the guards left Epstein, who had attempted suicide there previously, alone for eight hours in his cell.

The Manhattan jail where Epstein died has long been plagued by staff shortages, New York Times reported. The two guards had already done several sessions of overtime that week.

Many people believe that Epstein was killed to stop him from incriminating his powerful friends and associates, whom he entertained. Epstein’s lawyers have suggested he was murdered. – Source