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erronis

(23,007 posts)
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 02:20 PM Yesterday

Epstein lawyers discussed possibility of cooperation with prosecutors days before his death, files reveal

Source: The Guardian

Less than two weeks before Jeffrey Epstein's death in jail, his lawyers and Manhattan federal prosecutors met and discussed his potential cooperation, several documents within a cache of newly released investigative files state.

"On July 29, 2019, FBI and [prosecutors] met with Epstein's attorneys, who, in very general terms, discussed the possibility of a resolution of the case, and the possibility of the defendant's cooperation," an FBI document titled "Epstein Investigation Summary & Timeline" statement.

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On 23 July 2019, several days before this stated meeting with prosecutors, Epstein was discovered unconscious in a jail cell, multiple media outlets reported. While it was unclear how Epstein endured injuries to his neck, two anonymous sources told New York City's NBC News 4 that his injuries may have been self-inflicted.

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Epstein was found unconscious in his cell again on 10 August and pronounced dead at hospital. Authorities said Epstein's cause of death was suicide.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/31/epstein-lawyers-discussed-cooperation



I wonder who really wanted him killed.... Now, who could it be?

Of course, there are many suspects but one is really special.
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Epstein lawyers discussed possibility of cooperation with prosecutors days before his death, files reveal (Original Post) erronis Yesterday OP
Well, his brother is convinced it was not suicide, so I'm not going to discount his suspicions. hlthe2b Yesterday #1
MAGAs had him murdered Trueblue1968 Yesterday #17
Move along...nothing to see here SamuelTheThird Yesterday #2
Finally, something that is really, truly NEW information! This is a GREAT thread to tug at! AZJonnie Yesterday #3
Time to give Bill Barr that Medal of Freedom you hinted at when you gave it to Edwin Meese travelingthrulife 10 hrs ago #34
From the files posted and hidden by DOJ angrychair Yesterday #4
Reading this makes me physically want to vomit. hamsterjill Yesterday #24
"He" is Epstein - or Trump? NM Grins 18 hrs ago #31
The "he" doing the measuring angrychair 16 hrs ago #32
Plus his 3 kids were all supposedly present at this auction. travelingthrulife 9 hrs ago #35
For suspects, the local place to start is Bluetus Yesterday #5
Kicked and recommended Uncle Joe Yesterday #6
His "suicide" was stinky from minute one. Especially since video footage of his cell "disappeared." Vinca Yesterday #7
and guards were sleeping or distracted. It was a suicide watch FCS. Love to see them under oath. Evolve Dammit Yesterday #9
And he was the most high profile prisoner in the entire US penal system. No room for "Whoops!". TheRickles Yesterday #13
Make that coffee to go... JoseBalow Yesterday #8
That's the last thing that Jabba the orange Hey Joe Yesterday #10
Satan? Clouds Passing Yesterday #11
Trump is Satan's Son. Trueblue1968 Yesterday #18
Worse. rubbersole Yesterday #21
And Barr's father gave Epstein his first job TommyT139 21 hrs ago #30
MURDERED. evolves Yesterday #12
It's abundantly evident. sop 22 hrs ago #26
Co-operation implies a bigger fish. Harker Yesterday #14
Trump made an offer to the guards they couldn't refuse. Tetrachloride Yesterday #15
Or the two female guards were drugged dlbell Yesterday #16
Indeed. Am I going to sleep with a high value target near ? Tetrachloride Yesterday #19
Same person who pushed Ivana down the stairs. BigmanPigman Yesterday #20
Probably speaks russian, also. erronis Yesterday #22
No doubt! BigmanPigman Yesterday #23
That's a smoking gun. Martin68 23 hrs ago #25
This is increasingly suspicious fujiyamasan 22 hrs ago #27
So now we see the motive for his murder. He was about to name names. patphil 22 hrs ago #28
Recommended. H2O Man 21 hrs ago #29
Exactly angrychair 7 hrs ago #36
The mystery remains: H2O Man 7 hrs ago #37
Troubleshooting Kid Berwyn 11 hrs ago #33
People like him angrychair 7 hrs ago #39
Some people cough BFEE enjoy immunity from all their er shortcomings. Kid Berwyn 6 hrs ago #40
Wasn't Billy Barr conventionally out of the country when Epstein died? lanlady 7 hrs ago #38

hlthe2b

(113,123 posts)
1. Well, his brother is convinced it was not suicide, so I'm not going to discount his suspicions.
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 02:41 PM
Yesterday

AZJonnie

(3,098 posts)
3. Finally, something that is really, truly NEW information! This is a GREAT thread to tug at!
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 03:03 PM
Yesterday

Now, are there records that suggest what the possible SUBJECTS of that cooperation might be?

His own defense lawyers floating the possibility of Epstein's cooperation for a reduced sentence are probably meaningful, but it'd mean a *lot* more if there were an official record of WHAT/WHO he might be cooperating ABOUT.

But even just this information is a good start, and hopefully at the upcoming House Epstein hearings, Democrats will pepper Barr with questions about this!

travelingthrulife

(4,766 posts)
34. Time to give Bill Barr that Medal of Freedom you hinted at when you gave it to Edwin Meese
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 10:31 AM
10 hrs ago

Better refresh that loyalty oath.

angrychair

(11,852 posts)
4. From the files posted and hidden by DOJ
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 03:04 PM
Yesterday

From the Epstein Files that were released but then hidden again by the DOJ:

“Jeffrey Epstein would bring the children in and trump would auction them off. He measured the children’s vulva and vaginas by entering a finger and rated the children on tightness,” the complaint reads.


If that isn't the only thing we care about then we have already given up and given in as a nation.

This is what got him killed.

hamsterjill

(17,158 posts)
24. Reading this makes me physically want to vomit.
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 08:16 PM
Yesterday

Someone please get that sonofabitch!!!!

angrychair

(11,852 posts)
32. The "he" doing the measuring
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 04:05 AM
16 hrs ago

Is Mango Mussolini himself according to this alligation.

travelingthrulife

(4,766 posts)
35. Plus his 3 kids were all supposedly present at this auction.
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 10:34 AM
9 hrs ago

2 sons and Ivanka.

Can this take down their empire? Likely everyone he has blackmailed wants off this ride.

Bluetus

(2,455 posts)
5. For suspects, the local place to start is
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 03:18 PM
Yesterday

anyone who threatened violence against the girls they were raping.

That narrows it down to a couple hundred, I suppose.

Vinca

(53,507 posts)
7. His "suicide" was stinky from minute one. Especially since video footage of his cell "disappeared."
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 03:22 PM
Yesterday

Evolve Dammit

(21,581 posts)
9. and guards were sleeping or distracted. It was a suicide watch FCS. Love to see them under oath.
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 03:32 PM
Yesterday

TheRickles

(3,217 posts)
13. And he was the most high profile prisoner in the entire US penal system. No room for "Whoops!".
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 04:40 PM
Yesterday

Hey Joe

(482 posts)
10. That's the last thing that Jabba the orange
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 03:41 PM
Yesterday

wanted. Epstein volunteering to talk to prosecutors is very likely what got him dead.
Very telling new information.

rubbersole

(11,080 posts)
21. Worse.
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 05:27 PM
Yesterday

Bill Barr. AG at the time and recipient of all the video evidence collected when Epstine was arrested. That might make someone extremely powerful. Just sayin'.

TommyT139

(2,223 posts)
30. And Barr's father gave Epstein his first job
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 10:59 PM
21 hrs ago

...as a -- get this -- high school teacher at a private school in NYC.

Time was in NY state, you didn't need to have teaching credentials if the school wasn't a public school.

fujiyamasan

(1,402 posts)
27. This is increasingly suspicious
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 09:37 PM
22 hrs ago

Especially given Barr’s own connection to Epstein.

As we know, Barr was always the bagman.

H2O Man

(78,821 posts)
29. Recommended.
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 10:42 PM
21 hrs ago

Let's see ..... the former police officer/Russian mob hitman who attempted to strangle him, but was stopped when guards got involved. Wait until guards who will "fall asleep" come on a couple nights later, when the cop/hitman is a couple cells away. Video down.

H2O Man

(78,821 posts)
37. The mystery remains:
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 01:09 PM
7 hrs ago

Who had ties to the Russian mob in NYC? And could get the AG to look the other way? That narrows it down, I think.

Kid Berwyn

(23,549 posts)
33. Troubleshooting
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 08:49 AM
11 hrs ago

Seems Epstein was pursuing all avenues of escape. A rat like him wouldn’t voluntarily meet his Maker until after the jury reports, “Guilty!” and the judge says, “Life imprisonment without parole.”

angrychair

(11,852 posts)
39. People like him
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 01:25 PM
7 hrs ago

They don't check out early. They don't have too because people like him don't go to jail for very long. For all the serious charges had already been dropped. The remaining one was insignificant and likely wouldn't even get him jail time. Why off himself?
Some of the released files tell the tale. Apparently, his lawyers were in negotiations to spill the beans apparently. I think, some of the emails alludes to this, the fact he was arrested at all pissed him off and he was seeking revenge by outing the people that he thought should have protected him.

I think that was his final and fatal miscalculation. Whomever "they" were decided they didn't want him to do that.
That alone is a little scary. They blacked out security cameras and killed a person and disappeared in a poof of smoke in a federal prison. I have yet to see or hear a reasonable explanation as to why the only cameras that went out were in his area and only for the time around when he died and why not a single news agency will go near that story beyond the official account of the death.

Kid Berwyn

(23,549 posts)
40. Some people cough BFEE enjoy immunity from all their er shortcomings.
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 01:58 PM
6 hrs ago

Only guy who could do all that wasn't Trump, it was Barr. Bill Barr. Attorney General and volunteer helper like when Trump couldn't find his ass with both hands even if they both were super-glued to his ass. Remember how Barr wrote an 8-page "application letter" jonsing for the AG gig when Sessions refused himself over the Russia Thing?

AG Bill Barr's father hired Jeffrey Epstein to teach at NYC prep school.

Epstein was a 20-year old college drop-out "math wiz" at the time. Barr's father, Dalton School headmaster, was retired OSS trained to spot talent.

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The Ties That Bind Jeffrey Epstein, William Barr & Donald Trump

Todd Neikirk
Hill Reporter, May 19, 2019

During Attorney General, William Barr’s confirmation hearing, he was mostly peppered with questions about how he would handle the Mueller Report. Senator Ben Sasse’s (R-NE) questioning, however, diverged from the pack. Sasse asked Barr about the lenient sentence given out to billionaire pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. The future Attorney General told Sasse that he would look into the matter.

This, however, was not the first connection between Barr and his family and the disgraced pedophile. In 1973, Barr’s father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattan’s Dalton School, hired Epstein as a calculus and physics teacher.

While hiring Epstein, a noted mathematics genius, was not strange on its face, the hire was unusual for a number of reasons. Epstein had not earned a college degree as he dropped out of New York’s prestigious Cooper Union. The other odd circumstance was that the new teacher was only 20 years of age.

Apparently, the hire was a successful one. The New Yorker wrote in a 2003 profile on Epstein, “he was something of a Robin Williams–in–Dead Poets Society type of figure, wowing his high-school classes with passionate mathematical riffs.” Epstein’s mathematical skills caught the eye of Bear Stearns’ chairman, Alan “Ace” Greenberg, whose son attended the Dalton School. Greenberg hired Epstein as an options trader and the former teacher was able to amass a fortune.

Continues....

https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-william-barr-donald-trump-34107



Musta been one of the last times Epstein thought he had a good idea.



Jeffrey Epstein Bragged Bill Barr was in Charge, Not Trump

The pedophile told Ehud Barak he had “direct knowledge” that Barr was in charge in DC, according to a new book that also claims Steve Bannon gave Epstein advice on his PR strategy.


Lachlan Cartwright
The Daily Beast, October 15, 2021

A controversial new book from the journalist Michael Wolff claims that the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein bragged that Bill Barr was the man in charge during Trump’s time in office and that the president “lets someone else be in charge, until other people realize that someone, other than him, is in charge. When that happens, you’re no longer in charge.”

The tome, Too Famous: The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Notorious and the Damned, also claims that Steve Bannon and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak tried to help Epstein rehabilitate his image, even suggesting that he try to get favorable coverage on Rachel Maddow or 60 Minutes.

According to Wolff—who reportedly tried to buy New York Magazine with Epstein and disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein—Barak asked Epstein the million-dollar question of who was in charge at the White House. “‘What I want to know from you all-knowing people is: Who is in charge, who is,’ [Barak] said, putting on an American accent over his own often impenetrable Israeli one, ‘calling the shots?’ This was a resumption of the reliable conversation around Epstein: the ludicrousness and vagaries of Donald Trump—once among Epstein’s closest friends. ‘Here is the question every government is asking. Trump is obviously not in charge because he is—’”

Wolff claims that Epstein interrupted the former politico and called Trump—his former playboy party pal—a “moron,” then confided, “At the moment, Bill Barr is in charge.” The pedophile financier continued: “It’s Donald’s pattern...he lets someone else be in charge, until other people realize that someone, other than him, is in charge. When that happens, you’re no longer in charge.”

Barak allegedly pressed, “But let me ask you, why do you think this Barr took this job, knowing all this?”

“The motivation was simple: money,” Epstein replied. “Barr believes he’ll get a big payday out of this ... If he keeps Donald in office, manages to hold the Justice Department together, and help the Republican Party survive Donald, he thinks this is worth big money to him. I speak from direct knowledge. Extremely direct. Trust me.”

Continues...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-bragged-barr-was-in-charge-not-trump/



Like they say when "solving problems" in the Mob, the KGB GRU, the CIA, Mossad, etc. etc. etc.: "No man. No problem."

lanlady

(7,225 posts)
38. Wasn't Billy Barr conventionally out of the country when Epstein died?
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 01:10 PM
7 hrs ago

I vaguely recall that he and that useful idiot of a judge from Connecticut were on a junket to Italy when Epstein allegedly killed himself. I remember thinking how, if that scenario had happened under a Democratic administration, where the most high-value criminal in the country managed to kill himself AFTER he had already attempted suicide — as the AG was off on a cushy business trip - there would have been hell to pay. Our lame media really let us down by not getting to the bottom of the events of the summer of 2019.

I absolutely believe Epstein was killed.

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